Testing Java HTTP Clients with MockWebServer
This article briefly introduces the MockWebServer, a nice way to test HTTP calls from a Java application. While reviewing code in one of my major projects, ...
stevenschwenke.de Version 2.0
It’s done. After months of working on migrating stevenschwenke.de to a completely new setup, I can finally announce the website to be online. In this article...
Getting and Using Session Tokens with MFA in the AWS CLI
Securing your AWS IAM user with multi factor authentication (MFA) is a good idea. However, when working on the command line interface (CLI), the need to ente...
Kubernetes Icons Set for Kubernetes Architecture Diagrams
Working with AWS a lot lately, I became used to drawing beautiful architecture diagrams with the help of diagrams.net, formerly known as DrawIO and its built...
Managing Packages in Windows with Winget
Recently, a colleague told me about the new winget feature in Windows 10. This command line based package manager is developed by Microsoft as open source (C...
Developer on the Stage Newsletter 5
Welcome to the fifth newsletter for my book “Developer on the Stage” that will guide software developers to their first successful talk! Online Speaker Ment...
Lessons Learned and News in September
This is what I learned in September 2021: Not directly a lessons learned, but I presented my development setup (hardware, software, gadgets, furniture) a...
Lessons Learned and News in August 2021
This is what I learned in August 2021: Processing a pretty old item from my TODO-list, I created an article about local variable type inference in Java. ...
Style Guidelines for Local Variable Type Inference in Java
A while ago, with Java 10, a new controversial language feature was introduced: var. With var, local variables don’t need the explicit type information on th...