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...

In fact we want to upload our code to a local OpenShift instance with the help of Fabric8 plugin. Maybe there is an IntelliJ plugin, but I did not go into that direction. The first time I ran mvn ...

Even though my feature team won’t communicate directly with Kafka, we’ll use a wrapper organized by another feature team, it is important to understand what is underneath. Hence first I just draft...

For a couple of weeks I’ve been on low information diet. It means that I don’t browse the feed of any social media and I don’t browse general news sites. I had not been watching TV for a long time....

Wow. If half of it, half of his stories are true, he is really a special guy. One with creativity and grit. Grit towards not to work for the sake of work, that’s for sure. Even if you are not fond...

The kata we picked was TDD as if you meant it. The rules are the ones of TDD, plus some additionals. These rules - such as write the code first at the test class and don’t move it until… - are not ...

I was really happy to finally attend an IT conference, even though I was more looking for another experience. I was envisaging attending a SocRaTes event. Maybe soon I will have the opportunity. St...

I am going to work on a so called product#on. In my company’s terms it means a usually 3, or in this case a 6 months assignment where the participants work in startup mode. Okay. Maybe not in star...

It was fantastic and tiring. And finally I fulfilled a 5 year old promise of mine to my wife that I’d go to Japan with her. When I was in Spain a few months before, I could spend each day some tim...

It does not seem to easy to find a project. I’ve been checking a lot during the last few days and starred some repositories. Mostly Java and Python ones. But that doesn’t matter that much. It seem...