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Steven Schwenke

My Name is Steven Schwenke. I am a passionate software craftsman and love to share my experiences.

Lessons Learned and News in January 2019

Lessons Learned and News in January 2019

This is what I learned in January 2019: Here’s a nice short introduction to JSON via Youtube. The same guy did an awesome video about 8 super heroic Linu...

Some Cool Features of KeePass

Recently, I joined a new project. As always when this happens, I got a ton of new credentials for websites, platforms and so on. This flood can easily be man...

LDAP with Spring Security

I spend quite some time implementing a login using Active Directory via LDAP for our Spring Boot 2 application, using Spring Security. This article outlines ...

Lessons Learned and News in December 2018

Lessons Learned and News in December 2018

This is what I learned in December 2018: Already a while ago, I began using the wonderful KeyJump extension in my browser Vivaldi. It allows mouseless na...

Using Spring's @value with Defaults

Some values of an application have to be provided from “the outside” of the application, for example the secret of a JSON Web Token (JWT). This secret must r...

Force https in Angular Application Deployed on Pivotal CloudFoundry

This will be a short one. I am working on an Angular 6 application that is deployed on a Pivotal Cloud Foundry, using the nginx-buildpack. With the default ...

Angular 6 on Cloud Foundry with URLs without Hash

This article is about deploying an Angular 6 application to Pivotal Cloud Foundry so that URLs without a hash can be used. First, some Angular background. A...

Agile Management Innovations

Somehow, I came across this great article about what to do to build a great work environment in an agile enterprise. In this short reflection, I want to high...

Lessons Learned in November 2018

Lessons Learned in November 2018

This is what I learned in November 2018: A coworker showed me GIT Graph JS, .a library with which you can create beautiful graphical representations of G...