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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.

 

What to use: ng-bootstrap, ngx-bootstrap, manually adding Bootstrap?

11 Aug 2018
Posted by Steven

I wrote about Angular and Bootstrap before. Here, I documented how to add Bootstrap manually to Angular. Here, I wrote about ng-bootstrap and that it's the best fit for using Bootstrap with Angular. Recently, my team and I had to decide if to use a third option: ngx-bootstrap. This article is about the decision what option to use:

Spring + Angular + JWT

02 Aug 2018
Posted by Steven

Learning how an Angular app can be secured with JWT, I found two wonderful blog posts that showed how to implement a basic setup. If forked both of the corresponding repositories and upgraded the server side to Spring Boot 2. So if you need a working but small example on how to use JWT with Angular, here you go:

lessons learned in July 2018

02 Aug 2018
Posted by Steven

Because of long holidays, there hasn't been a lessons-learned for June. This is what I learned in July 2018:

Software Engineering Course at Ostfalia - Retrospective

30 Jul 2018
Posted by Steven

From March to June 2018, I have been giving th-e lecture “Software Engineering” at the university of Ostfalia. Doing so, I temporarily replaced Prof. Dr. Bernd Müller, who was busy doing research. It’s common practice to search a fellow scientist or a volunteer from the industry to allow students to visit the course. In this article, I reflect on some aspects of this activity and what I learned from it.

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.

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