Reflectoring

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Programming

Modeling Git Commits with Neo4j

Tom Hombergs
April 14, 2017

For the coderadar project, I’m currently searching for a way to create a persistent model of a git commit history that contains the relationships between all commits and the files that were touched within these commits.

Software Craft

Tool-based Database Refactoring

Tom Hombergs
April 1, 2017

The term “refactoring” is well defined in software development. It is usually used to describe a restructuring of source code ranging from simply renaming a variable to completely re-thinking whole components or applications.

Java

A Random Pitfall

Rudi Klassen
February 16, 2017

From time to time we need a randomly generated Number in Java. In this case we are normally using java.util.Random which provides a stream of pseudo generated Numbers.

Spring Boot

Loading External Application Properties in the Gradle bootRun Task

Tom Hombergs
January 25, 2017

The Spring Boot gradle plugin provides the bootRun task that allows a developer to start the application in a “developer mode” without first building a JAR file and then starting this JAR file.

Software Craft

Github’s Fork & Pull Workflow for Git Beginners

Tom Hombergs
January 2, 2017

If you are new to git and/or GitHub, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the different workflow models you can use to contribute code to a repository.

Spring Boot

Documenting your REST API with Spring Rest Docs

Tom Hombergs
December 19, 2016

The first impression counts. When you’re developing an API of any kind, chances are that the first impression is gained from a look into the API docs.