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lessons learned in October 2017

10 Nov 2017
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in October 2017:

  1. Until now, I used query methods in Spring Data JPA only for reading. However, also updates can be written in repositories:

lessons learned in September 2017

18 Oct 2017
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in September 2017:

5 observations at coderetreats

03 Sep 2017
Posted by Steven

Recently, I facilitated another coderetreat. As in previous retreats, the participants who experienced their first coderetreat showed a pretty similar behavior. It occurred to me, that nearly EVERY coderetreat-first-timer shows the exact same behavior. This article is about how people will act, what they will code and what they most likely will learn during their first coderetreat.

Git: To squash or not to squash?

30 Aug 2017
Posted by Steven

Until recently, I told my team to squash all of their commits on a given feature branch to just one commit. Every feature branch consisted of just this one commit and could be integrated into develop so that develop read just like a sequence of features. After further consideration, I changed that. Here are reasons for both approaches:

Pro-Squash:

Lessons Learned in July 2017

13 Aug 2017
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in July 2017:

Lessons Learned in June 2017

07 Jul 2017
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in June 2017:

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