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... 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 context-menu with ZSA Moonlander in IntelliJ IDEA

16 Mar 2021
Posted by Steven

Recently, I bought a Moonlander keyboard. Since then, I'm trying to learn how to type again. :D Although I had a rough time working with the new ortholinear setup and also defining "my" layout with the awesome software oryx, it's a blast. If you are typing professionally, for example as a programmer or writer, do yourself a favor and buy some professional gear like this keyboard.

"Friend of a Friend" by David Burkus

14 Mar 2021
Posted by Steven

 

Recently, I finished reading "Friend of a Friend" by David Burkus. In this article, I highlight what was new or important to me. This text is not a complete summary of the book; instead, I recommend reading it yourself.

Lessons Learned + News in February 2021

06 Mar 2021
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in February 2021:

Use hasSize to check for Size of JSON Objects in Spring MVC Tests

01 Mar 2021
Posted by Steven

I'm a huge fan of Spring MVC Tests and already wrote some articles about this topic. If you are new to the topic, here's the official Spring documentation. A coworker discovered a features previously unknown to me that allows to test for the size of JSON objects returned by an endpoint like this:

Lessons Learned + News in January 2021

31 Jan 2021
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in January 2021:

A short story about technical debt

30 Jan 2021
Posted by Steven

Recently, I repeated learning that long-term technical debt is a bitch. Some time ago, I performed an extensive refactoring in one of my main projects. It was necessary to change some architectural decisions that were not able to support newer requirements. This significantly changed the architecture and affected a lot of the code. Despite the amount of modifications necessary, a coworker and me plowed through and finished the task. In doing so, we realized even more code rot, but nothing too serious.

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