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Exposing additional headers in requests to Spring MVC so that they can be used in Angular

29 Apr 2020
Posted by Steven

Working on new features for IT Hub Brunswick, I encountered a curious problem. Sending a POST request from the Angular 8 frontend to the Spring MVC backend returned incomplete header information. This article is about how to expose additional headers to the client.

lessons learned + news in March 2020

06 Apr 2020
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in March 2020:

Book Review: "Principles" by Ray Dalio

04 Apr 2020
Posted by Steven

Recently, I finished reading the book "Principles" by Ray Dalio. This is a short review of my most important take-aways from the book.

First of all, the design and font of the book really resonates with me. That's the kind of design I choose for my own book ...

lessons learned + news in January and February 2020

04 Mar 2020
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in January and February 2020:

lessons learned + News in late 2019

12 Jan 2020
Posted by Steven

Because of unforeseen "events in life", this monthly lessons-learned article is several months late. Due to the circumstances, I did not work nearly as much in the last months as I would have normally. This is why despite the long timespan, this article contains relatively few items. So, this is what I learned in late 2019:

poll.digitalcourage.de

04 Jan 2020
Posted by Steven

There are several tools to solve the "Let's schedule an event" and "Let's find a common result via a poll" - problems. The most famous is doodle.com. However, most of these tools gather data. How this data is used can not be influenced by or even known to the user. Remember: If you're not paying for it, you become the product.

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