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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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Documentation as code, code as documentation

05-Dec-18

This morning, I read this kind tweet by Raumzeitfalle: @rotnroll666 Just discovered the nice #arc42 based documentation of biking2. Thanks for providing such nice example. Got the hint from @DevBoost that #arc42 might be something helpful. The biking2 example helps a lot! — 📸 Raumzeitfalle 🛶 (@Raumzeitfalle) December 4, 2018 This refers to arc42 by […]

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