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• Meta

  On Blogging, Writing, and Habits: This Was 2019

  There it is. 2019 is gone. 2020 is here. I feel old. As I did last year, I take this time to reflect on my year 2019 and to set some plans for 2020.

  Tom Hombergs January 11, 202012 min read
  
• Spring Boot

  One-Stop Guide to Profiles with Spring Boot

  Spring provides a mighty tool for grouping configuration properties into so-called profiles, allowing us to activate a bunch of configurations with a single profile parameter.

  Tom Hombergs January 2, 202013 min read
  
• Software Craft

  Insights from YOW! 2019

  I visited the YOW! conference in Sydney in December 2019. What better way to persist what I learned than in a blog post?

  Tom Hombergs December 12, 201919 min read
  
• Spring Boot

  Executing Code on Spring Boot Application Startup

  Sometimes we just need to run a snippet of code on application startup, be it only to log that a certain bean has loaded or the application is ready to process requests.

  Tom Hombergs December 2, 20197 min read
  
• Book Notes

  Book Review: Clean Code

  TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you’re new to programming and want to learn some coding best practices you’re a coding veteran and want to confirm your own coding best practices you met a “Clean Code” fanatic and want to check out if the book really is as black-and-white as they are preaching (this was my main reason to read it) Overview I guess {% include book-link.

  Tom Hombergs November 19, 20197 min read
  
• Spring Boot

  Static Data with Spring Boot

  Sometimes we need some structured, static data in our application. Perhaps the static data is a workaround until we have built the full feature that stores the data in the database and allows users to maintain the data themselves.

  Tom Hombergs November 12, 20195 min read