This is a guide on how to approach me regarding job offers.

TL;DR

Currently, I'm not actively searching for a new job. This article is meant to be a guide for people who are offering extraordinary jobs that I would be a perfect fit for.

Stevens priorities

From most important to less important:

1. Content.

I want to do something useful,
contribute to something great and
add value
while having a positive ecological and sociological impact.

Spring MVC is a great way of creating REST interfaces. Many convenience classes and methods are provided, such as the Response Entity object for returning data:

There are common tasks in programming I never performed in a production project. Formatting currency is one of them. I only noticed that when I searched a library that would offer formatting methods. After searching for a while and wondering why so many libraries exist, a colleague found a surprisingly easy solution: String.format(). Here is some code to show how to format currency with plain Java.

Recently, I finished "Influence" by Robert B. Cialdini.  I like reading books about Psychology and "Influence" both is comprehensible and useful. In this article, I want to highlight some of the most important take-aways I found to be of relevance to my life.

Recently, I wanted to keep the change history of entities saved via Hibernate and also have a versioned database. Hence, I used Hibernate Envers and Liquibase.

The tables for envers, both the revinfo table and the _AUD tables for each entity, have to be included in the changeset of Liquibase:

Recently, I finished reading the book "Principles" by Ray Dalio. This is a short review of my most important take-aways from the book.

First of all, the design and font of the book really resonates with me. That's the kind of design I choose for my own book ...

Some time ago, an application of mine that is deployed in the Pivotal Cloudfoundry began throwing errors and crashed:

In this article, I want to share what I learned about testing a Spring application without loading it completely. This can be done by using @DataJpaTest, @WebMvcTest, @SpringBootTest, @AutoConfigureMockMvc and @DataJpaTest. These annotations are part of "test slices" of Spring which allow to test certain beans of the application without loading other beans.

This is the final report about my temporal stop starting new projects. (update #1, update #2).

This is a short article about a concept that could have massive mind-hacking effects. Years ago, when I first organized workshops for my employer, I got a "time budget" of a specific amount of hours for preparation and execution of the workshop. First, I misunderstood the word "budget" and thought I would get an amount of Euros to spend on whatever.