09/18/17
How to enable the Spring Boot 'Run Dashboard' in IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.1? Following this simple step you can ease your work with Spring Boot and IntelliJ IDEA. Read more
09/15/17
Looking at JUnit tests can be a bit weird at times. Often a lot of preparation work in terms of preparing mock objects and responses is required. Read more
There are things a programmer needs to know, no excuses. There are things you can’t possibly all remember, so it’s... Read more
Localization for Spring Security error messages is not configured by default in Spring Boot. This blog post describes how to add localization using MessageSources. Read more
Large software projects have many vital concerns, such as authentication and authorization. Despite the wealth of available libraries in the... Read more
Convention over configuration does not always work in Spring Boot. This blog post explains how to globally configure parsing of LocalDate query parameters. Read more
We aim to please the customer at short notice and always overestimate our capacity to comprehend a system as it gets more complex. That’s a recipe for technical debt. Read more
This is not a tutorial about how to exploit the advanced features in modern mocking frameworks. Rather, it’s a warning that these features work around design decisions that were wrong to begin with. Read more
07/13/17
This instruction gives some insights on how to convert an existing Android Java app project to Kotlin. Read more
