At the very beginning of last year, I decided to track my reading habits and share the best stuff here, on Baeldung. Haven't missed a review since.
Here we go…
1. Spring and Java
It's always nice when a framework matures and gets easier to work with – and Spring is doing just that with the upcoming 4.3.
A nice guide to what makes IntelliJ a good choice as your default IDE. Obviously promotional in nature, but a solid writeup nevertheless.
Short the to the point look at what's happening with the new JUnit alpha.
If this gets implemented in Java 10, it will be a beautiful thing.
It also shows a degree of openness to community feedback that is rare for a language as mature and as well established as Java is 20 years in.
Quick and highly practical writeup on using rest-assured to test an API and how to orchestrate the interaction with the Authorization Server in OAuth2.
Also worth reading:
Webinars and presentations:
Time to upgrade:
2. Technical
The web never stops moving forward, and the standardization of these building blocks is really critical for this forward movement.
If you're keeping an eye on this part of the ecosystem, definitely have a quick read.
Also worth reading:
3. Musings
Some against the grain advice on actually keeping an open mind when hiring someone and doing a good job at this notoriously difficult thing.
Putting a hard number of developer productivity is the white whale of our industry, and so a piece that manages to stay away from rehashing the well known and the obvious is a good read.
But the reason this one was perhaps more interesting to me is that more and more, I'm starting to build out a team around Baeldung, so the question of “productivity” isn't just theory any more.
I don't usually include Agile writeups here because they're usually fluff. This one though may be worth the read (although I didn't get through all of it).
Some really interesting talks here.
I'm still going through some and they're a little bit meta, but there are some cool takeaways locked in these talks.
Also worth reading:
4. Comics
And my favorite Dilberts of the week:
res – REST with Spring (eBook) (everywhere)
