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On becoming a Java Champion

20-Aug-18

July 2018 marks a personal highlight of mine. Just a bit after Rabea brought the news to our very own EuregJUG, the Java Champions account send this tweet out: SUPERB! Please join us in welcoming these new Java Champions to our Community. Well done everyone@alextheedom@TheDonRaab @JonathanGiles@cero_t@jyukutyo @michaelminella @NikhilNanivade @rotnroll666@ustarahman pic.twitter.com/FIp1W6wg13 — Java Champions (@Java_Champions) July […]

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Cognitive therapy

28-Jun-18

The featured image on this post is from Cycologygear. I love their shirts and have several of them. Highly recommended products. If you need some new jerseys, go check their shop! Some days ago, Simon Maple asked the following question on Twitter: I need to lose weight. I need to be held accountable when I […]

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biking2: Four years later

27-Jun-18

I have written a book about Spring Boot 2, taught Spring Boot 2 at customer but haven’t had time yet to update biking.michael-simons.eu to use Spring Boot 2. That project is – in it’s current Spring based incarnation – with me since the first early access releases of Java 8 and the first betas and […]

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Use different Git usernames and emails for work and play

25-Jun-18

A bit hidden away in the release notes of Git 2.13 but found by my friend Michael Vitz from INNOQ is the not so new anymore feature of conditional configuration respectively conditional includes. Git has several levels of configuration: System wide, per user, per repository and finally, on each individual command invocation. If a values […]

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