Go back to the books you read years ago. The ones you still think about after all these years. The ones you learned a lot from. The ones that helped, inspired or changed you. What will happen? A new discoveries will happen. You see, the things you learn from a book aren’t only what author…
Tag: tips & tricks
Rules For Meetings
The Internet is full of “10 Rules For Effective Meetings” blog posts so why not create my own? Sure, why not? These are the guidelines I try to follow when organizing meetings. They work fine for me in the context of the company I work for (flat structure, ~80 people, no managers, no corpo-bullshit). I have…
Soft Assertions? Rarely Useful
I remember some time ago I was really excited about the idea of soft assertions. The latest blog post by Rafał Borowiec reminded me about them. …but wait, if I was so crazy about them some time ago, then how it happened that now I need to be reminded about their existence? So first of…
Rubber Duck Not Only For Code Reviews
We all know that rubber duck is programmer’s best friend (it was also proven that such duck should be yellow for maximum effect). Not surprisingly I have also a yellow toy on my desk. But it is not a duck. It is a little yellow human-like figure. Usually it sits and waits for me to…
Sign Your Work
Few days ago I learned a very simple, yet powerful trick which saved me some time. To make long story short, it happened on a test environment shared between few projects. I deployed a new version of one application there, and after some time received emails with errors. Uh-oh, apparently I have broken something! Hmm……
Finding Latest Versions of Dependencies With Maven
From time to time it is good to see what are the latest versions of the libraries you use (because maybe you would like to upgrade). You can use the Versions Maven Plugin like this: mvn versions:display-dependency-updates versions:display-plugin-updates but the output is too verbose. And for multi-module project you will get flooded with same information…
4 Cool Online Tools
It amazes me how many great tools you can find on the web! In this post I describe 4 of them. I hope you find them useful. Decode and Encode Base64 I know it is only a line of two of coding, but this comes quite handy when you need to decode/encode base64 stuff: http://decodebase64.com/….