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
Building a Multi-Module Spring Boot Application with Gradle
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Tom Hombergs
- June 28, 2019
The Spring Initializr is a great way to quickly create a Spring Boot application from scratch. It creates a single Gradle file that we can expand upon to grow our application.
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Book Review: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Tom Hombergs
- June 26, 2019
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you’re ready to change the way you think about your interaction with the world around you you want to be more effective in communicating with those around you you want to learn some motives why you should change your habits Overview I read the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey in my quest to shape my habits to be more productive at the things I do.
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5 Reasons Why Business Exceptions Are a Bad Idea
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Tom Hombergs
- June 4, 2019
I recently had a conversation about exception handling. I argued that business exceptions are a good thing because they clearly mark the possible failures of a business method.
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Book Review: Deep Work
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Tom Hombergs
- May 12, 2019
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you want to get more productive at knowledge work (yes, software development is knowledge work!
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Paging with Spring Boot
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Tom Hombergs
- March 31, 2019
As a user of a web application we’re expecting pages to load quickly and only show the information that’s relevant to us.
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Configuring a Spring Boot Module with @ConfigurationProperties
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Tom Hombergs
- March 18, 2019
Every application above play size requires some parameters at startup. These parameters may, for instance, define which database to connect to, which locale to support or which logging level to apply.
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