Tom Hombergs

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

Getting the current Subversion Revision Number in Gradle

A common use case for build tools like Ant, Maven or Gradle is to retrieve the current revision number of the project sources in the Version Control System (VCS), in many cases Subversion (SVN).

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Marrying Vue.js and Thymeleaf: Embedding Javascript Components in Server-Side Templates

In the good old days, we implemented web applications with a server-side web framework. The browser sends a request to the server, the server processes the request and answers with HTML, the browser renders that HTML.

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REST with Hypermedia - Hot or Not?

Believing Roy Fielding, who first coined the REST acronym, you may call your API a REST API only if you make use of hypertext.

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