Welcome!

... to the digital home of Steven Schwenke.

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.

Also, have a look at my book "Developer on the Stage".

 
 
 
 

How to start a Spring Boot app with spring-cloud-starter-aws-jdbc dependency locally

17 Oct 2020
Posted by Steven

To access a database on AWS, the following dependency is needed:

  1. implementation('org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-aws-jdbc:2.2.4.RELEASE')

As soon it is added to a Spring Boot project, it can not be started locally because it will throw exceptions like this one:

Accessing routes in an Angular application on AWS S3 with CloudFront

16 Oct 2020
Posted by Steven

As I wrote earlier, 

How to hire Steven Schwenke

07 Oct 2020
Posted by Steven

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.

Returning an empty ResponseEntity in Spring MVC

28 Sep 2020
Posted by Steven

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:

Lessons Learned + News in August 2020

31 Aug 2020
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in August 2020:

Formatting currency in Java with String.format

25 Aug 2020
Posted by Steven

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.

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