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Oh, all that entitlement…

13-Jul-19

There was a tiny tweet yesterday, resurrecting a talk from Christin: In 2011 I saw @ChristinGorman hold this fantastic lightning talk/rant at JavaZone, and I have never forgotten it. So, Christin, if you want some return on investment on your speaking, look no further. Here is this gem for you all to enjoy https://t.co/cBRRDg90EP — […]

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Never not learning…

05-Jul-19

Sometimes my teammate Gerrit teases me “Don’t you know this and that as a Java Champion?”… Of course I don’t. Honestly, the older I get, the better I know that I know nothing. This week has been interesting. At first, I stumbled upon something like this A shortcut to System properties public interface Stuff { […]

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Don’t stop writing code comments

04-Jun-19

TL;DR: The older I get, the more diverse projects I have seen, the more often I refrain from giving someone an absolute advice. In almost any cases, there are many aspects to consider. In times when people hardly read documentation and often only headlines, an advice like “Stop Writing Code Comments” guarantees some clicks, but […]

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Separation of concerns in Spring applications

17-May-19

TL;DR: Don’t surprise your fellow developers. Yesterday I learned – or realized again, don’t know – that one can add @CompenenScan to all Spring components and not only to @Configuration components: TIL A @​ComponentScan on a @​Service class in #Spring actually works and contributes to the application context. 🤯 — Michael Simons (@rotnroll666) May 16, […]

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