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Book Review: Everybody Writes

Tom Hombergs
July 17, 2019

TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you want to become a better writer (especially, but not exclusively, in online marketing) you are writing for a blog or marketing department you want to learn some tricks on how to keep writing Overview The book {% include book-link.

Spring Boot

Building a Multi-Module Spring Boot Application with Gradle

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

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.

Java

5 Reasons Why Business Exceptions Are a Bad Idea

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.