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• Spring Boot

  Loading External Application Properties in the Gradle bootRun Task

  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.

  Tom Hombergs January 25, 20172 min read
  
• Software Craft

  Github's Fork & Pull Workflow for Git Beginners

  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.

  Tom Hombergs January 2, 20175 min read
  
• Spring Boot

  Documenting your REST API with Spring Rest Docs

  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.

  Tom Hombergs December 19, 20166 min read
  
• Java

  Getting the current Subversion Revision Number in Gradle

  A common use case for build tools like Ant, Maven or Gradle is to retrieve the current revision number of the project sources in the Version Control System (VCS), in many cases Subversion (SVN).

  Tom Hombergs November 26, 20162 min read
  
• Software Craft

  REST with Hypermedia - Hot or Not?

  Believing Roy Fielding, who first coined the REST acronym, you may call your API a REST API only if you make use of hypertext.

  Tom Hombergs January 1, 17 min read