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Steven Schwenke

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

What is the Golden Master Technique

In preparation of my new workshop, I read about the Golden Master technique in detail. Because this is an important method to deal with legacy code and is ea...

Lessons learned in September 2016

Lessons learned in September 2016

This is what I learned in September 2016: Wrote an article about the first Get Together of me and my remote team. Wrote first of a handful of articles ...

How to Solve org.hsqldb.hsqlexception - Statement is closed

A while ago, we fixed a really annoying defect in our code. Because we debugged for days without finding the reason for the defect, I want to share how we ap...

Herbstcampus 2016 - Software Development in an including Society by Marco Zehe

This article is part of a series about Herbstcampus 2016, a conference that took place in Nürnberg, Germany. Links to articles about other talks I visited th...

The First Get Together Of Me And My Remote Team

The First Get Together Of Me And My Remote Team

Last week included a very important appointment: The first Get Together of me, another teammate here in Germany and my remote-working team. I saw most of the...

Lessons Learned in August 2016

Lessons Learned in August 2016

Dmitrij, a fellow coworker, wrote a very nice JUnit 5 workshop. Here are the sources and Github pages. The other day, I installed a new Intellij IDEA on...

How to Best Coffee in the World - Cold Brew.

How to Best Coffee in the World - Cold Brew.

Often I’m asked about my “special coffee” that I bring to work or serve at parties. This article is about how I produce my Cold Brew and why Cold Brew is the...

Lessons Learned in July 2016

Lessons Learned in July 2016

This is what I learned in July 2016: Pitest.org is a mutation testing toolkit. It changes the code under test (not the test themselves!) by applying seve...

Project Draft IT-Mentor-Hub

Project Draft IT-Mentor-Hub

Since a couple of months, I have an idea that I cannot implement because of other priorities. It’s about a project regarding mentoring in the IT. I understan...