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Steven Schwenke

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

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Book review "Influence" by Robert B. Cialdini

Recently, I finished “Influence” by Robert B. Cialdini. I like reading books about Psychology and “Influence” both is comprehensible and useful. In this art...

Creating Tables for Hibernate Envers with Liquibase

Recently, I wanted to keep the change history of entities saved via Hibernate and also have a versioned database. Hence, I used Hibernate Envers and Liquibas...

Mockito Verifying Method Arguments with Inorder

Yesterday, I learned how to verify the method parameter for multiple method calls in Mockito. My pair-programmer and I wrote code that send multiple messages...

Spring HATEOAS "links" vs "_links" and JSON Formats

Recently, I added Spring HATEOAS to the IT Hub. Refactoring the controller to return RepresentationModel and CollectionModel, I noticed something odd. When r...

Lessons Learned and News in April 2020

Lessons Learned and News in April 2020

This is what I learned in April 2020: Working on both private and business projects, I often commited changes in my private repositories with my business...

Counter Corona - Pair-Program everything!

As most of us, my developer team and I are doing things quite different these days. For future readers: The Corona virus holds the whole world hostage. To st...

Exposing additional Headers in Requests to Spring MVC so that they can be used in Angular

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 r...

Lessons Learned and News in March 2020

Lessons Learned and News in March 2020

This is what I learned in March 2020: I deepened my knowledge about Docker, Kubernetes and AWS. Like always, I created a repository with notes about Dock...

Book Review

Book Review "Principles" by Ray Dalio

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 des...