Software Engineering Course at Ostfalia - Retrospective
From March to June 2018, I have been giving th-e lecture “Software Engineering” at the university of Ostfalia. Doing so, I temporarily replaced Prof. Dr. Ber...
Clifton Strengthfinder 2.0 – Introduction and my Personal Assessment
Since recently, my employer msg DAVID is using the Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 to improve the personal development of each employee and also promote better c...
How to set Proxy for IntelliJ Idea at Startup to discover License Server
I just had the problem that I couldn’t start my favorite IDE IntelliJ IDEA. It didn’t discover the company license server because it has to be accessed via a...
Self-reflection - How I Learn
It’s the eve of my first visit of a conference that focuses on web development topics (EnterJS in Darmstadt, Germany). A couple of months ago, I would not ha...
Splitting (Angular) Frontend and (Spring) Backend in Separate Git Repositories
I recently stumbled upon the following question: When developing an Angular-App with a Spring Boot backend, should the Spring backend live in another Git rep...
Lessons Learned in May 2018
This is what I learned in May 2018: My article “Remote Meetings erfolgreich moderieren” (pdf, German) was published in Java Aktuell 03/2018. A while ag...
When and how I use Timeboxing
For the last two weeks, I’ve been testing a new tweak for my self-management: Timeboxing. This article explains the principle and summarizes my insights. Wh...
Lessons Learned in April 2018
This is what I learned in April 2018: JHipster, the generator for Angular web applications, automatically adds Bootstrap to the generated project. I lear...
Angular and Bootstrap - Use ng-bootstrap
In this article I wrote about my attempt to add a navbar to my Angular app and how I ended up with adding the full JQuery library to be able to use Bootstrap...