Blog Posts

Published in Java Magazine

It has been some time ago that an article of mine got published in the Dutch JUG.

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How IKEA can help developers

Just a couple of days ago I went to the IKEA to get some cabinets for my son’s room. Why IKEA you might ask, but they have a good price v.s. quality. The cabinets I bought set me back about € 500,- instead of a €2000,- when build by a carpenter.

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Did you know...

The Maven Site plugin uses by default the apt format. Although it is a simple and straight forward format I personally prefer the Confluence markup and DocBook. Confluence I use for my personal Wiki and at various projects I use DocBook for the documentation.

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Using Spring @Cacheable annotations

Today I needed some performance improvements on a application that makes quite a few calls to a database. My default statement is not to implement performance improvements unless there is a issue. Well it just happened.

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Weird distribution scheme

Just recently I was looking for the book: Kirk Knoernschild’s Java Application Architecture Modularity Patterns with Examples Using OSGi. A co-worker advised this book for an internal research project on OSGi.

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is package-private the new private?

Just a few days ago I attended the DEVOXX conference in Belgium. The last session I attended was from Adam Bien’s session Real World Java EE.

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Is the tool for management or developers!?

We as professional software developers or better Software craftsman are proud of out work. When the product is finished we are delivered a working application that complies to all requirements specified, the functional, non-functional and last but not least of coding standards.

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Refactoring is fun, right?

For the umpteenth time I have been asked, do you like refactoring? The answer yes I like doing it.

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Deployment is expensive, lets do it less!?

Just recently I entered a discussion about getting application into the production environment. As we all know due to the silo’s and functional separation (currently in place at my job) it is challenging at a minimum.

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Builder pattern with annotations (Part 2)

It took me some time to get all for the annotation builder into central but it’s there. see previous article for details on usage

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