Everything I have written, newest first. The early posts are JVM and frontend notes from 2016 onwards; the recent ones are about agent platforms and self-hosted models.
In software world we can try to slim down career progression of developers into two different tracks, a technical track and a business driven track. Which track one chooses usually comes down to…
During my life I've lived in five different language areas. On two of these I have been able to communicate with the natives very easily because we have been able to speak the same language. On…
Sometimes we have the need to create a proper shape for our endpoints. Since the last year or so I have been working more on the frontend side of a JVM/Spring application I've grown frustrated…
Meditations about software engineering career and how to become better. In the end we all want to become better software engineers. We’ll go through stages of an engineers career and possible ways to grow ourselves as developers.
As we Spring fans are very aware the release date of next major Spring version, this time number 5, has passed a long time ago (at the time of this post, 3 days ago) and most of the applications…
This article was originally published in Codementor.io
This article was originally published in Codementor.io
This article was originally published in Codementor.io
On the American independence day I had the opportunity to host our first meetup around Kotlin language in Dublin, Ireland. I don't think there is a better way to celebrate American independence…
Kotlin makes functional collections handling a breeze. I've created a handy cheat to line out all the most important items of Kotlin's brilliant extensions on the standard library.
Recently we had the need to send a bunch of Emails to our clients. By a bunch I mean into tens of thousands. For this task we had an account with Mailchimp and chose Mandrill to be the correct…
Lately I have been embarked upon a wonderful journey in the world of Prometheus. Since our current monitoring solution at $DAYJOB was lagging behind of times quite a we needed a new solution to…
As an innovation driver for our development team I had the opportunity to attend a software developer conference Devoxx in Antwerp early November.
At times you need to take a look at something lighter minded that you can tinker around with. I am a big proponent of async communication and chatrooms. Have always been and as far as I am…
Last week we took a look how to utilize JSDom to test JQuery code. Now let's take a peek how we can reach the same conclusion with AngularJS code. If you went through the linked post most of the…
Lately I've been making the transition towards Kotlin due to the likability factor of the language. It really makes development on the JVM more pleasant and seamless interoperability with all…
First off, I have to admit that I'm not a big fan of Spring Integration. I believe there are better frameworks out there doing the same type of stuff. That being said, I stumbled upon an…
When testing your javascript components it is sometimes essential to mock out the boundaries of your application. This way you don't actually have to worry about hitting that API or really…
We have a big old codebase written in JQuery that we are currently chipping away on. Though there are plans to move forward from JQuery to a more modern frontend stack we still do have to maintain…
Eslint is one of my favourite tools that has been introduced in recent years to the JS community. Having my background in stricter languages I tend to have some level of longing to automatic…
Something I stumbled upon over my latest story that might be of use in the future.
One neat thing about modern IDEs with a local server setup is the ability to hot swap your code changes to already running application. This is especially useful for web development where we…
Sometimes we have the luxury to work with other than nicely working evergreen browsers. That means that if we ride the wave of modern frontend application we usually need to make some detours…
At times we stumble upon the need to launch multiple actions at the same time from your Redux action creators. Today we'll take a look at two techniques how we can achieve this.
In Java world Maven or Cradle is often king and that makes often difficult to include other things into your build process painlessly. If we think about a modern frontend development where Node.JS…
Like we know, ORMs are OK on some things but a big mistake on others. One thing that we used to do in our data analytics world was always try to lessen the payload coming from the database to our…
Last week we went through the basics of introducing build process to your frontend resources. Now I believe it's time to discuss about much overlooked aspect of frontend development in enterprisy…
Previously we took a look at how to structure our frontend application and noticed that a buildfile is one of the essential building blocks on the frontend of a modern webapp. Today we'll take a…
If we think about our Maven/Cradle driven JVM webapp we usually have a very strict structure when it comes to frontend resources. The standard folder lies somewhere in src/main/webapp. This guy,…
Previously we figured out how to inject some data from out Spring controllers directly to the server HTML page and transform that to a Javascript variable. This time we'll take a look at some…
This is the second post on the series explaining a journey from fully server rendered web page towards modern frontend application. The introduction to the series can be found from here
Everyone in the Java world is aware of writing tests and the importance of them. Most developers are also aware of JUnit library, which is usually without fail baked in to your maven project…
Something I've been playing with in my head quite a bit has been the transition of moving from old Java + Spring MVC + JSP/Thymeleaf/whatever style web sites to modern progressively enhanced web…