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

Book Notes

Book Notes: The Nature of Software Development

Tom Hombergs
April 1, 2020

TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you’re a manager, you don’t know much about software development and want to learn about agile software development you haven’t worked in an agile manner before and want to know the key methods you have worked in an agile manner before and want some re-affirmation that you’re doing the right thing Book Facts Title: The Nature of Software Development Author: Ron Jeffries Word Count: ~ 20.

Simplify

My System for Organizing Work in a Distracted World

Tom Hombergs
March 22, 2020

As knowledge workers, we software developers are very vulnerable to distractions. Have you counted the number of context switches you’ve had today?

Spring Boot

Clean Architecture Boundaries with Spring Boot and ArchUnit

Tom Hombergs
March 14, 2020

When we’re building software, we want to build for “-ilities”: understandability, maintainability, extensibility, and - trending right now - decomposability (so we can decompose a monolith into microservices if the need arises).

Spring Boot

Custom Web Controller Arguments with Spring MVC and Spring Boot

Tom Hombergs
March 6, 2020

Spring MVC provides a very convenient programming model for creating web controllers. We declare a method signature and the method arguments will be resolved automatically by Spring.

Book Notes

Book Notes: Mindset

Tom Hombergs
February 25, 2020

TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you always wanted to know what your HR people mean when they say “we should all have a growth mindset” you are looking for a shift of your mindset towards learning you want to read stories about important people and what effects their mindset have on their environments Book Facts Title: Mindset Author: Carol S.