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Steven Schwenke

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

Initiating new-Stuff-Lockdown

The last months have been great in terms of good stuff happening both in my private and professional life. I’m very happy with the multiple projects I’m work...

Lessons Learned in and News in February 2019

Lessons Learned in and News in February 2019

This is what I learned in February 2019: I love GitKraken. However, it is/was one of the few tools I couldn’t use without touching my mouse. But using th...

Protractor failed Element not interactable

While writing some Protractor tests yesterday, I came across this error: Failed: element not interactable (Session info: chrome=71.0.3578.98) (Driver in...

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 ...