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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.

Full-time event in another city: Arrive a day early and depart a day late!

02 Dec 2014
Posted by Steven

Given you visit a full-time event in another city, maybe a fair or a conference. What do you do when that event comes to an end? Do you rush to the airport to catch your flight? Do you hurry that much that you forget to say everyone goodbye? In the last hour of the event, do you constantly check your watch hoping you will be out soon enough? Well, don't. Just stay.

Removing HTML from strings with jsoup

21 Nov 2014
Posted by Steven

This is an article about a new tool in our project: the library jsoup. I want to describe the problem jsoup solves for us and the arguments why jsoup is the right library to solve this problem.

Motivation

As in other applications, our users can input text via HTML editor. Often, they copy-paste content from several sources such as Microsoft Office. Hence, a lot of obscure, malformed and incomplete HTML with proprietary tags is thrown at our application.

Miniseries: Certified Scrum Master (1)

18 Sep 2014
Posted by Steven

Nowadays, Scrum is everywhere. Eventually, it will come and get you. A while ago, it started to get me. In this and the following articles, I will document the process of (hopefully!) becoming a certified Scrum Master. So if you feel that the scrum monster is gaining on you, read on and learn to become part of the hype! ;)

table to table transition in JavaFX

31 May 2014
Posted by Steven

Recently and with the help of my coworker Scavenger156, I implemented a nice animation to show interactions between two tables in JavaFX. In our application it is possible to give special permissions to users. Hence, there is a set of users who have these permissions and there is a set of users who don't. A user can just be in one of these sets. To make assigning user to these sets easy and intuitive, we came up with the following component:

New Mission Statement for my work as a software developer

06 Apr 2014
Posted by Steven

There have been a lot of changes in the last months. My work as an employed software developer kind of got to a new level because of the changes in my project. I'm learning a whole lot in this project and am looking forward to learn even more. My employer offers me great opportunities and my spare time projects and my mentoring also extend my horizon.

OpenSource Workshop for JavaFX beginners

25 Mar 2014
Posted by Steven

Last week, I gave a JavaFX workshop for my coworkers. It went very well and was a lot of fun! To share knowledge and make my work available to the community, I open sourced the whole workshop at github. There, you find

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