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.
Articles by Tom Hombergs
Bean Validation Anti-Patterns
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Tom Hombergs
- September 7, 2019
Bean Validation is the de-facto standard for implementing validation logic in the Java ecosystem and it’s a great tool to have around.
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Book Review: The Power of Habit
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Tom Hombergs
- September 2, 2019
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.
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Quick Guide to Building a Spring Boot Starter
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Tom Hombergs
- August 30, 2019
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.
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Pollution-Free Dependency Management with Gradle
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Tom Hombergs
- July 28, 2019
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!
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Maven Scopes and Gradle Configurations Explained
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Tom Hombergs
- July 24, 2019
table th:first-of-type { width: 40%; } One of the key features of a build tool for Java is dependency management.
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Book Review: Everybody Writes
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Tom Hombergs
- July 17, 2019
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you want to become a better writer (especially, but not exclusively, in online marketing) you are writing for a blog or marketing department you want to learn some tricks on how to keep writing Overview The book {% include book-link.
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