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Nobody wants to be the one. That’s nothing new. That’s why meetings aren’t exactly popular with test engineers. To avoid despair, we recommend BugFix Bingo. Continue reading →

Maven POM demystified: enhance your build Since more than a decade Apache Maven is one of the most convenient Build and Reporting tools for Java projects. The success of this tool is quit more than just being a build tool.…

On our first LiveStream we explain shortly what is Docker and how fast it can installed on an Ubuntu server. After this you get an overview about all the components we need for a full NextCloud installation. Step by step…

After some years the virtualization tool Docker proofed it’s importance for the software industry. Usually when you hear something about virtualization you may could think this is something for DevOps or administrators and will not effect me as a developer…

APIs, or interface descriptions, are especially important in RESTful services. To keep the project well-structured from the very beginning, allowing it to grow organically while remaining maintainable, a few simple rules should be followed. This article describes them. Continue reading…

This article introduces a new tool for the DevOps CI /CD pipeline. The SCM-Manager can host Git, Subversion, and Mercurial repositories in one solution. Continue reading →

Refactoring Disasters: A Story how I failed For my small Open Source project TP-CORE, you can find it on GitHub, I had the gorgeous Idea to replace the iText library for OpenPDF. After I made a plan how I could…

API4Future: A journey how to create a stable API By experience, enterprise applications have a long lifetime period. This is one oft the  reasons why we need to pay a lot of attention for maintenance. But how we are able…

Mission accomplished: deploy to Maven Central Many developers have ideas they work on it in their spare time. The most of us are convinced about open source and share their own projects on platforms like GitHub. But what happen after…

Continuous Stupidities – did DevOps fail? Heavy motivation to automate everything, even the automation itself, is the common understanding of the most DevOps teams. A strong dominance of administrators in those teams (Operations), transform ideas of increasing the development process…

After the gang of four (GOF) Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides published the book, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, learning how to describe problems and solutions became popular in almost every field in software…

To meet the definition of code quality, it’s not enough to focus solely on the source code. Structure, organization, and maintenance also play an important role. Continue reading →

In a standard set-up for Java projects like NetBeans, Maven, and JUnit, it is not that difficult to produce your first test code. Besides, this approach is used in Test Driven Development (TDD) and exists in other technologies like Behavioral…

A short video introduction to Docker, a Linux-based container technology for virtualizing critical applications and infrastructure services. An essential tool for developers, DevOps, and system administrators. Continue reading →

When Oracle in 2017 introduced the new release cycle for Java I started to have a look for options. One of the options I can recommend is Java OpenJdk. Check in this post why I’m not agree with the new…

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