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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.

 

Clifton StrengthFinder 2.0 – introduction and my personal assessment

16 Jul 2018
Posted by Steven

Since recently, my employer msg DAVID is using the Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 to improve the personal development of each employee and also promote better cooperation in teams. In this article, I publish my personal test results and comment on them. This post serves as a retrospective for myself and as a reference for my colleagues so that they can learn how and why I do things the way I do.

How to set proxy for IntelliJ IDEA at startup to discover license server

17 Jun 2018
Posted by Steven

I just had the problem that I couldn't start my favorite IDE IntelliJ IDEA. It didn’t discover the company license server because it has to be accessed via a proxy. Somehow, the proxy config went missing. Hence, I only got the “Cannot obtain ticket from …” dialog. I couldn't access the proxy settings because I couldn't get past this dialog and start IDEA.

Here’s how you setup the proxy before starting IntelliJ IDEA.

Self-Reflection: How I lean

17 Jun 2018
Posted by Steven

It’s the eve of my first visit of a conference that focuses on web development topics (EnterJS in Darmstadt, Germany). A couple of months ago, I would not have thought that I would systematically learn about web apps and even visit a conference. However, I’m getting pretty deep into these issues and having a great learning experience. Time to reflect about how I manage to gather new technology insights!

Splitting (Angular) Frontend and (Spring) Backend in separate Git repositories

15 Jun 2018
Posted by Steven

I recently stumbled upon the following question: When developing an Angular-App with a Spring Boot backend, should the Spring backend live in another Git repository than the Angular frontend? JHipster creates both in a common repository while many projects separate them.

Different sources suggest splitting if:

lessons learned in May 2018

03 Jun 2018
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in May 2018:

When and how I use Timeboxing

21 May 2018
Posted by Steven

For the last two weeks, I’ve been testing a new tweak for my self-management: Timeboxing. This article explains the principle and summarizes my insights.

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