Lessons Learned and News in May 2019
This is what I learned in May 2019: I finished the TypeScript course I bought on Udemy. As always, here are my notes in a Github repo. The same applies ...
New-Stuff-Lockdown final Status Report
This is the final report about my temporal stop starting new projects. (update #1, update #2). Progress Update Before digging into details, one thing is cl...
Lessons learned and News in April 2019
This is what I learned in April 2019: Again, I learned valuable lessons in Angular. This article describes how to use async and await in Protractor tests...
Angular NgRx - uncaught typeerror - cannot read Property 'Entities' of undefined
Yesterday, we had flickering tests in our Angular application, which uses NgRx. Hopping from one test to the next and even sometimes running green, we had th...
Time Budget
This is a short article about a concept that could have massive mind-hacking effects. Years ago, when I first organized workshops for my employer, I got a “t...
Dollar Signs in Variable Names for Observables in Typescript
Recently, my team and I had a discussion about naming conventions in TypeScript. The question was if to name observables with or without a dollar sign like t...
Cloudfoundry with OpenJDK 11 - Add JBP_CONFIG_OPEN_JDK_JRE
I just upgraded a Java project from Java 8 to OpenJDK 11. The project is running on a Cloudfoundry, using the Java buildpack. After successful deployment wit...
Cloudfoundry not recognizing your App as Spring Boot? Use empty Context Path!
I spend the bigger part of yesterday figuring out why my Spring Boot app was not recognized as such in Pivotal Cloudfoundry app manager. The Spring Boot logo...
Don't Snack Candy Tasks all the Time
The other day, I wrote about “Candy Tasks”. These small tasks that can be completed in a few minutes and without much effort. If finished, they provide a nic...