Let’s start from the beginning. How do you recognize rules? You’ll see some public variables annotated with @Rule in your test class. Here is an example: public class MyTest { @Rule public So...

Because I am hungry! And I don’t mean I’m hungry for the great food my wife or I prepare the evening before, but I am hungry for knowledge and I have to find time to learn, to sharpen my saw. I g...

My scrum master inspired this short post as he thanked me during our last retrospective that with one single action I improved a lot our daily stand-ups. What was the problem with our dailies? The...

Yes. These months I work a bit far from my manager on a separate project with people from many different teams. He scheduled a meeting with me which I thought would be about my middle year review....

I finished reading and completing most of the exercises of Bruce Tate’s Seven languages in seven weeks. The above questions might come up in you if you read the book. It can come up otherwise too, ...

I read an article about meetings as complete time and money wasters. Jeff Haden’s opinion is that 99% of the meetings are a waste of money for the company. The author seems to be very strict, but a...

Although the guy was open to change the code, he didn’t really consider using names with an I prefix a bad habit. I was not so happy sith a such an outcome, even though it would have already resul...

Then when my daughter arrived to our world, I spent a month at home. Even though being with a new born is a tough job, I could dedicate a little bit of time to learn, to stretch my mind every day. ...

Finally I got it! In my new project we use a maven plugin to generate files from protobuf code with protoc. On the Windows machines the build worked fine, but on my Linux one the build failed. Af...

Yesterday we started to sketch up a hello world REST application. Its hello service doesn’t even have to return anything in its response it just has to print hello, world! to the logs. But how do y...