Author Archives: Michael Simons

IMPROVE

23-Jun-16

In der vergangenen Woche war ich in der glücklichen Situation, einen weiteren Kurs mit Gernot Starke, Peter Hruschka und Carola Lilienthal zu besuchen. Der IMPROVE Kurs war nicht nur ein hervorragender Baustein im iSAQB CPSA Advanced Level, sondern ein hervorragender Austausch zwischen Entwicklern und engagierten Trainern. Natürlich fand’ ich auch die konkreten Themen zum Refactoring […]

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NetBeans IDE plugin supporting programming with Spring Boot

19-Jun-16

There are several plugins out there for supporting Spring development in NetBeans, but the NB-SpringBoot by Alessandro Falappa seems to be the most feature complete. At the moment installation must be done via manual download from here but that should be fixed soon. You’ll get a really nice Spring property support: Great integration with start.spring.io: […]

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On dependency injection

13-Jun-16

Today is one of those days where I either react to short tempered or don’t get my point across: Did attribute injection for years? Try to change to constructor based injection and have the circular dependencies slapped into your face… — Michael Simons (@rotnroll666) June 13, 2016 This is what I’m experiencing those days, with […]

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On software improvement

17-May-16

As you may know, I’m running the daily photo project Daily Fratze for more then 10 years now. What started as a simple PHP script in the late summer of 2005 grow into a Ruby On Rails application during 2006 and in 2010 i started writing the current version in Java, based on the Spring […]

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