Author Archives: Michael Simons

Writing your own Spring Boot starter: wro4j-spring-boot-starter

02-Feb-16

I’ve been using Wro4j by Alex Objelean for more than 4 years now in a “classic” Spring application, see my post from January 2012 here. The tool has been immensely useful and stable. With my setup at dailyfratze.de, i can disable concatenation and minification during development and have optimized resources during production without much hassle. […]

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Spring Boot based site and api for EuregJUG

14-Jan-16

Since March 2015 Stefan and i are building the EuregJUG Maas-Rhine, a cross-border, english-language Java User Group, located in Aachen. I’ve been blogging about regularly since then (see all posts here) and it’s developing quite well so far. We had 4 well visited talks, nice meetings in between and good conversations. We noticed some problems, […]

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2015 and gone…

22-Dec-15

2015 is coming to end, at least regarding work. The last things i did in December where preparing system specification for a mobile app (targeting BlackBerry) and learning how to create, communicate and maintain good architecture in Munich with Gernot Starke and Peter Hruschka: Not only i took home a lot of great books, insides, […]

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