These days my computer work is mostly concerned with all things Neo4j. Being it Spring Data Neo4j, the Cypher DSL, our integration with other frameworks and tooling or general internal things, among them being part of the Cypher language group. In contrast to a couple of years, I don’t spent that much time around a […]
Spring Boots @ConfigurationProperties is a powerful annotation. Read the full story in the documentation. These days it seems widely known that you can put it on type-level of one of your property classes and bind external configuration to that class. What is less know is that you can use it on @Bean annotated methods as […]
Recently, I realized I am an old person: Back in 2004, @tinasimons met an "elder" couple at Rock am Ring, who had some quite delicious food with them. They had been equiped totally different than us. We liked them but found them kinda funny. 17 years later I realize: Today we would be that couple. […]
Yesterday, Maciej shared this and I answered Disposable. — Michael Simons (@rotnroll666) May 26, 2021 after that, things escalated a bit… 🙂 While I thought, if Metallica would have been Spring developers, they would have written about Disposable Beans, not Heroes, other people have been more creative: From Gerald came songs about memory leaks or […]
I published my first library on Maven central about 2013. A server side embedding tool for webpages based on OEmbed. I remember how happy and proud I was having published something in binary form “for all eternity”. Maven central is the canonical, default artifact repository for the built tool of the same name, Apache Maven. […]