In the past, we advised using the constructor to inject dependencies with Spring, and we introduced Lombok.
Guess what?
Those go quite well along together, except maybe for a little trick to known when you wish to use Spring’s @Value.
We’ll cover all that in this post.
A few months back, a new guy joined our team and the Java world after a few years of being a .NET programmer. He had many reactions like, “What, you need to write that yourself in Java? In .NET, the compiler does it for you!”
It’s true that, in Java, the language and conventions drive you to write a non-negligible amount of low-value code. But don’t fear! Lombok aims at simplifying that task for you.
Read moreThere are around 7000 languages and 50 writing systems in the world. So, if you are passionate about languages, travel, culture and IT, this theme on computer keyboards around the world should be of great interest to you, and perhaps motivate you to learn a foreign language!
Using a keyboard abroad will now seem so easy.
Read moreTime to answer the Regex Quiz #1. The regex was:
\[(#[a-fA-F0-9]{3,6}|[a-zA-Z]+)\](.+)\[\/\1\]
What can it be used for? This is what we’ll explain in this post.
Read moreWhen you start Esperanto, the first thing you learn about is the alphabet. Some latin letters are not used. Others are used with diacritics in combination that are not seen in other languages. Typing those characters may be complicated on a usual computer system. Here’s a workaround.
Read moreA new year has begun. So far, we’ve been holding up our good resolutions for the website.
Read moreI like regular expressions, very much. A bit too much, probably, but I’m aware of that and I don’t use them that much.
That doesn’t prevent me from trying some funny patterns, and I’ll be sharing some of them here for the sake of learning.
Read moreWhen working with VSCodium, it’s possible you can’t find an extension you’ve seen in the marketplace. Here’s why.
Read moreMicrosoft publishing its tools under an open-source license did quite an effect. Thing is, the MIT-license applies to the source code, but not to the binary they distribute.
Here are some explanation on this, and two possible alternatives.
Read moreLast year, I wrote a post to propose an open source alternative to ready-to-use password managers like LastPass, 1Password and so on. Something that you would host yourself, so that you would remain in control of your sensitive data.
There was one main limitation, though: the solution I exposed implied you had to install an application to read your password on a computer. Today, I share a quick note if you can’t install an application on the said computer.
Read moreSeven months since the last update, four since the last post. What’s changed since then?
Read moreThis version of the website has been online for almost two years and I’ve not written about keyboards yet, so here’s some light reading before the end of the Summer.
Read moreWe won’t discuss the merits of testing today, I’ll just suggest a library that helps them write differently and, according to me, makes them more comprehensible.
Read moreI started learning Esperanto a few weeks ago. Ever since, whenever I speak to someone about it, I (gladly) answer a series of questions about it. Because others may wonder about the same things, I decided to share the answer to the most common of them.
Read moreTwo months since the last update. What’s changed since then?
Read moreWhen designing a website, we’re often tempted to use custom webfonts to make it stand out. Yet, the French collective for a responsible design of digital services provides one simple rule in their referential for web ecodesign:
Use standard typefaces
translated from Référentiel d'écoconception web (FR), Collectif Conception responsable de service numérique
Let’s have a look at what’s behind this rule.
Read moreA few weeks back, I reviewed code from a young developer.
It was impressive work for a topic he didn’t know beforehand, except on one aspect: every output used System.out.println().
That’s understandable: that’s how Java developers learn to code, just like Python developers do their first tests with print.
But that’s not something that’ll be handy for a live application.
When I started this website, I wanted my personal illustrations to feel handdrawn. After two years, those illustrations were a collection of charts and graphs. There are more precise ways to convey that type of information. SVG is one of them, with a generally lighter footprint and better accessibility, so I went for it.
Read moreIt’s been two months since the last “What’s Up?” post, time to see the main changes since then.
Read moreUp until quite recently, I used LastPass for storing my passwords. The announced changes to the free plan are, however, a big showstopper for me and, like many users, I chose to move away. Still, since my faith in service providers has been (once more) shaken, I’ve looked to an open source that I’ll be able to fully manage.
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