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Steven Schwenke

My Name is Steven Schwenke. I am a passionate software craftsman and love to share my experiences.

Lessons Learned in early 2018

Lessons Learned in early 2018

Normally, I write a “Lessons Learned” article each month. The last one was published in December 2017, which shows how busy I’ve been in the past months. To ...

List of Publications

The next issue of Java Aktuell (02/2018) will contain an article I wrote about Remote Working. This is one of my favourite topics since I began working with ...

2017 - my Conference-Year

2017 - my Conference-Year

2017 was a special year for me in many regards. It also has been an experiment. Even before the year started, I tried to take part in as many events, talks a...

Lessons Learned in December 2017

Lessons Learned in December 2017

This is what I learned in December 2017: Since recently, my main project is using Springs Caching annotation, using Google Guavas caching implementation....

Manager's Schedule and Creator's Schedule

Manager's Schedule and Creator's Schedule

In the great book “Tools of Titans” by Tim Ferris, I read about manager’s schedule and creator’s schedule. In this article, I explain the difference between ...

Lessons Learned in November 2017

Lessons Learned in November 2017

This is what I learned in November 2017: One more cool shortcut for IntelliJ IDEA: Shift + Esc closes panels. Especially helpful in presentation mode. ...

Lessons Learned in October 2017

Lessons Learned in October 2017

This is what I learned in October 2017: Until now, I used query methods in Spring Data JPA only for reading. However, also updates can be written in repo...

Lessons Learned in September 2017

Lessons Learned in September 2017

This is what I learned in September 2017: Used org.apache.commons.collections4.map.MultiKeyMap for the first time. This map can hold multiple keys for ev...

5 Observations at Coderetreats

5 Observations at Coderetreats

Recently, I facilitated another coderetreat. As in previous retreats, the participants who experienced their first coderetreat showed a pretty similar behavi...