Managing Packages in Windows with Winget
Recently, a colleague told me about the new winget feature in Windows 10. This command line based package manager is developed by Microsoft as open source (C...
Developer on the Stage Newsletter 5
Welcome to the fifth newsletter for my book “Developer on the Stage” that will guide software developers to their first successful talk! Online Speaker Ment...
Lessons Learned and News in September
This is what I learned in September 2021: Not directly a lessons learned, but I presented my development setup (hardware, software, gadgets, furniture) a...
Lessons Learned and News in August 2021
This is what I learned in August 2021: Processing a pretty old item from my TODO-list, I created an article about local variable type inference in Java. ...
Style Guidelines for Local Variable Type Inference in Java
A while ago, with Java 10, a new controversial language feature was introduced: var. With var, local variables don’t need the explicit type information on th...
Lessons Learned and News in July 2021
This is what I learned in July 2021: Once again, I used JSON Web Tokens (JWT) in one of my projects. I took the time to document my knowledge about them ...
Unit Tests vs Integration Tests
This article will highlight the differences between unit tests and integration tests. It’s widely known that writing tests to increase the quality of softwa...
JWT Verification and Signing in Java
The first article in this series about JWT gave an introduction to important certificate file formats while the second article explained JWT in general. Th...
JWT Fundamentals
In the past, I worked with JSON Web Tokens (JWT) a couple of times. To back up and share my knowledge, I’ll write a miniseries about the topic. In the first...