Tom Hombergs
As a professional software engineer, consultant, architect, general problem solver, I've been practicing the software craft for more than fifteen years and I'm still learning something new every day. I love sharing the things I learned, so you (and future me) can get a head start. That's why I founded reflectoring.io.
- Spring Boot
Mocking with (and without) Spring Boot
Mockito is a very popular library to support testing. It allows us to replace real objects with “mocks”, i.e. with objects that are not the real thing and whose behavior we can control within our test.
- Book Notes
Book Review: Shape Up
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you want to know how Basecamp builds software with bets instead of estimation you are interested in an agile process beyond Scrum & Co.
- Spring Boot
Bean Validation Anti-Patterns
Bean Validation is the de-facto standard for implementing validation logic in the Java ecosystem and it’s a great tool to have around.
- Book Notes
Book Review: The Power of Habit
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you are interested in how habits work in individuals, organizations, and societies you want to trigger some self-reflection on your habits you enjoy real-life stories that read like a novel Overview Similar to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, I read {% include book-link.
- Spring Boot
Quick Guide to Building a Spring Boot Starter
There are certain cross-cutting concerns that we don’t want to implement from scratch for each Spring Boot application we’re building. Instead, we want to implement those features once and include them into any application as needed.
- Java
Pollution-Free Dependency Management with Gradle
Remember the days when we had to manually download every single JAR file that our project needed to run? And not only the JAR files we directly depended upon, mind you, but even those JAR files that our dependencies and our dependencies’ dependencies needed to work!
Tom Hombergs