I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. - Bruce Lee #quotes #quoteoftheday

Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? By Martin Fowler.

In this post, you will setup a local Jenkins CI server, create a build job for a simple Spring Boot Maven project and push the created Docker image to DockerHub. #jenkins #cicd

Learn more about git hooks. https://githooks.com/

In this blog, you will take a look at how you can ensure that you run your Docker containers in a secure way. #docker #security

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. - Donald Knuth #quotes #quoteoftheday

Docker volumes and file system permissions. https://medium.com/@nielssj/docker-volumes-and-file-system-permissions-772c1aee23ca

In this post, you will explore some of the capabilities of Docker Compose in order to get your developers up-to-speed for development. #docker #dockercompose

The Zen of Programming by Sander Hoogendoorn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&list=PLEx5khR4g7PKuDrMVDkHvItDxCsB0msAs&v=syGnlE_oosM&feature=youtu.be

Learn to apply the Performance Diagnostic Methodology (PDM), a structured approach in order to find the root cause of Java performance problems. #java #performance

"Ask a programmer to review ten lines of code, he’ll find ten issues. Ask him to do five hundred lines, and he’ll say it looks good." - Gene K#quoteso#quoteofthedayeday

Unit Testing like a Pro - Towards a Testable Design by Victor Rentea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMvrCDW6rVM

Learn to apply the Performance Diagnostic Methodology (PDM), a structured approach in order to find the root cause of Java performance problems. #java #performance

Evolving a Pragmatic, Clean Architecture A Craftsman's Guide by Victor Rentea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqIUNUq2Gg

In this post, I will try to explain why and when Git LFS should be used and how to use it. #git

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton #quotes #quoteoftheday

Clean Code: The Next Chapter by Victor Rentea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY_CUkU1zfw&t

In this post, you will learn how to use Helm for installing our application. Take a look how you can create a Helm Chart for our application and how to package it. #kubernetes #helm

Design Patterns. Gang of Four Java design patterns.

In this post, you will take a closer look at Helm: a package manager for Kubernetes. #kubernetes #helm

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try. - Michael Jordan #quotes #quoteoftheday

What Is a Monad? Basic Theory for a Java Developer. https://dzone.com/articles/what-is-a-monad-basic-theory-for-a-java-developer

Which versioning scheme should you use for your software? Which version of the software is delivered to your test or production system?

I am still extremely happy I applied the git conditional profile. So easy to separate my work git configuration from my personal one!

In this blog, you will learn how to create a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server using Spring AI. You will see with how little effort you can create your own MCP server. Enjoy! #java #springai

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. - Steve Jobs quotes #quoteoftheday

Continuous Integration. By Martin Fowler.

Conventional Commits. A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages. https://www.conventionalcommits.org/

You create an MCP server, but how can you test whether it works as expected? In this blog, you will learn how you can test and debug MCP servers by using MCP Inspector. Enjoy! #mcp mydeveloperplanet.com/2025/12/01/t...

In this blog, you will explore some AI MCP agents which will enhance your AI coding assistant workflow. The goal is to expand the capabilities of an LLM with shell commands, browser interaction and update-to-date library information. Enjoy! #java #mcp

Code never lies, comments sometimes do. - Ron Jeffries quotes #quoteoftheday

Reproducible builds are a set of software development practices that create an independently-verifiable path from source to binary code. https://reproducible-builds.org/

Are you interested in adding AI agents to your coding workflow? In this blog, you will learn what MCP agents are and how you can integrate these in your coding workflow. DevoxxGenie, an IntelliJ plugin, will be used. #java #AI

Hexagonal architecture. By Alistair Cockburn. https://alistair.cockburn.us/hexagonal-architecture/

In this blog, you will take a closer look at Spring Security. More specifically Spring Security in combination with Keycloak using OpenID Connect. All supported by means of examples and unit tests. Enjoy! #java #springboot

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. - Henry James, 1902. #quotes #quoteoftheday

Domain Driven Design by examples.

In this blog, you will learn how to set up the OpenID Connect Authorization Code Flow using Keycloak. You will execute the flow yourself in order to get a better understanding of OIDC. Enjoy! #security #oidc

Creating an integrated business and technology strategy.

In your unit integration tests, you want to mock another system's behaviour. WireMock is a testing library which helps you with mocking the APIs you depend on. In this blog, you will explore WireMock for testing a Spring Boot application. Enjoy! #Java

I tell my programmers to think carefully before they say something 'can't be done'. There isn't that much that can't be done with a little ingenuity. - Satoru Iwata #quotes #quoteoftheday

Tomato Architecture - A Pragmatic Approach to Software Design. https://tomato-architecture.github.io/

You create a well-defined architecture, but how do you enforce this architecture in your code? With ArchUnit you can define rules for your architecture by means of unit tests. #Java

A Simple Framework for Architectural Decisions.

In this part of this series, you will try to create unit tests for a Spring Boot application using an AI coding assistant. The goal is not to just merely create working unit tests, but to create qualitative unit tests. Enjoy! #java #ai

Every job looks easy... until you are the one doing it. - Jeff Immelt #quotes #quoteoftheday

Software Architecture Guide. By Martin Fowler.

In this part of this series, you will try to create a Spring Boot application from scratch using an AI coding assistant. The goal is not to just merely create a working application, but to create production-grade code. Enjoy! #java #ai

The C4 model for visualising software architecture. https://c4model.com/

Do you think AI coding assistants are not working for you? You constantly get wrong responses and now you have given up using them? In this third part, some real life use cases are shown which will help you during your daily work.