In our work projects we use a lot of git branches. Over time, the number of branches in my local repository grows and it gets more complicated to find specific branches. For this reason I like to cleanup untracked branches every now and then, and because this is only an issue every few months, I keep …
I’ve been using SdkMan! for a long time, it makes it quite easy to manage multiple versions of different frameworks. I’ve been almost exclusivly using it to manage Java SDK versions over the past years, and although I’m mostly writing code in Kotlin recently every now and then I’m also looking at Java based projects. …
I’ve been a long-time user of Enpass and while it’s a fine password manager I looked into Bitwarden some months ago and started using it. Bitwarden can be used as a managed service and that’s what I did for some time now. Same as Enpass it’s quite advanced and integrates nicely into my working environment.
Ever since I started my blog, I’ve been using HTTPS to serve its content using encrypted connections. At first I used TLS certificates issued by Namecheap but when Let’s Encrypt entered the arena it didn’t take long for me to switch. More than the pricing aspect, it was just so much easier to manage the …
In my last two blog posts I wrote about a library called Testcontainers. It’s a Java wrapper around docker containers and you can use it to run software that your application depends on in a test context. My last post presented a solution that makes it easier to start up an Infinispan caching server. This …
This post has originally been published on the codecentric blog. A few days ago I wrote about a library called Testcontainers. It helps you to run software that your application depends on in a test context by providing an API to start docker containers. Testcontainers comes with a few pre-configured database- and selenium-containers, but most …
I’ve been working in my current project for a while now and while it has its problems I mostly enjoy my envolvement in it. The project is based on Spring Boot and consists of a bunch of web-applications, both for endusers, internal personnel and operations staff. The team takes testing seriously, we have different code-quality …
This post has originally been published on the codecentric blog. It was translated to english and slightly edited for this blog. A month back the JUnit team published the offical version of JUnit 5. There’s plenty of resources for high level overviews and if you want to catch up I can recommend this (german) article …
After three years without any new JUnit version, a few weeks back on September 10th a new version of JUnit has been published: JUnit 5! While there were only minor upgrades to the popular testing library over the last couple of years, this was a big release that the JUnit team had been working on …
This post has originally been published on the codecentric blog. I’ve been looking at Kotlin for a while now and since Spring will support Kotlin as a first class language from version 5 onward I wanted to see how they currently work together. Being a Java programmer you’re probably familiar with the Java Persistence API: …
