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Book Review: Shape Up

Tom Hombergs
September 11, 2019

TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you want to know how Basecamp builds software with bets instead of estimation you are interested in an agile process beyond Scrum & Co.

Bean Validation Anti-Patterns

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.

Book Notes

Book Review: The Power of Habit

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.

Spring Boot

Quick Guide to Building a Spring Boot Starter

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.

Java

Pollution-Free Dependency Management with Gradle

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!