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My favorite IntelliJ IDEA 2018.3 features

25 Nov 2018
Posted by Steven

This short article contains my notes when reviewing the last upgrade of my all-time-favorite-IDE IntelliJ IDEA. For more details, visit JetBrains.

Book Review: "Java by Comparison"

24 Nov 2018
Posted by Steven

Recently, I finished reading “Java by Comparison – Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples” by Simon Harrer, Jörg Lenhard and Linus Dietz. This article is a book review that highlights the contents of the book as well as some aspects that I found especially good.

lessons learned in October 2018

10 Nov 2018
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in October 2018:

lessons learned in September 2018

29 Sep 2018
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in September 2018:

lessons learned in August 2018

03 Sep 2018
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in August 2018:

Angular: Which UI library to use?

19 Aug 2018
Posted by Steven

Recently, we decided which UI library we should use in our Angular app. This article is about the aspects we took into account and why we decided to use PrimeNG (spoiler alert!).

PrimeNG was already integrated in the codebase and used in a few places. Because of that, it would have been possible to change to another library if necessary. We didn’t want to use PrimeNG simply because it already has been there, so we compared it to other solutions.

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