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This site is supposed to be a showcase for my thoughts about software engineering, less a personal homepage. If you want to know more about me, invite me to a beer.

I am a senior professional

22 Aug 2015
Posted by Steven

A couple of months ago, a disruptive event changed not only the project I worked in but also the way I think of my customers. This article illustrates my thoughts.

Lessons Learned in July and August 2015

07 Aug 2015
Posted by Steven

Due to some heavy vacationing and a special project situation, this article covers my lessons-learned for both July and August 2015.

How to use JDK 1.8u45 in travis or "cannot find symbol" while building Java 1.8u45

17 Jul 2015
Posted by Steven

While building one of my repositories with Shippable, I got the following error:

Lessons Learned in June 2015

09 Jul 2015
Posted by Steven

Here's what I've learned in June 2015:

“Could not open PerfMemory” / “Local Java applications cannot be monitored“

08 Jul 2015
Posted by Steven

Today I encountered a strance error opening both Java Mission Control and VisualVM: “Could not open PerfMemory” and “Local Java applications cannot be monitored”:

 

 

 

Free Java 8 course material

05 Jun 2015
Posted by Steven

Last week, I gave a Java 8 course for some colleagues. All the explanations, examples and code samples of that course are available at Github. Feel free to use this material for learning or giving a course of your own. Please give feedback if you find any errors or I forgot a topic. Here are the contents of the course:

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