Category Archives: Programming

Do you know Gitpod?

Posted on 30. May 2020 by

Hey guys! How’s it going? Gitpod is a new and amazing way to hack on your Java code. Just prefix your Gitlab or Github URL (pointing either to a project, branch, MR or commit), with gitpod.io/# and few seconds later you … Continue reading →

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Gitlab Hosted by Eclipse Foundation – Head Crashing Informatics Episode One

Posted on 17. May 2020 by

Hey guys! How’s it going? While my studio equipment (lights, cam, mike) still waiting in China to start their travel to Europe, I couldn’t wait to record a first “real” episode of Head Crashing Information and post it on YouTube. … Continue reading →

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The JAX-RS Channel On YouTube

People know me mostly from my work on JAX-RS, typically by reading my magazine articles, blogs or attending to one of the German conferences. Thanks to Corona (BTW, did I mention that the Curevac’s vice president was in my graduating … Continue reading →

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Reducing JAR Footprint with Maven Shade Plugin 3.2.2

Posted on 23. February 2020 by

Complex Java applications often consist of lots of JAR files. Particularly when it comes to open source projects, there is a deep “swamp” of transitive libraries your (possibly rather small) own code depends on. It might be that you do … Continue reading →

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Lightweight JAX-RS Live Coding Video on YouTube (EclipseCon Europe 2019)

If you really missed all of my live coding sessions I gave on my “Lightweight Microservices with JAX-RS 2.2” preview tour (JavaLand, Java Forum Stuttgart, EclipseCon Europe, etc.), there now is a high quality video recording from EclipseCon Europe 2019 … Continue reading →

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EclipseCon Europe 2018: Video on YouTube

Posted on 31. October 2019 by

Forgot to tell you… the video recording of my presentation in 2018 at EclipseCon Europe is available on YouTube.

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JAX-RS 2.2: Reworking the Spec

Posted on 31. October 2019 by

Last week Christian and I committed the initial contribution of the JAX-RS Spec into the official repo on Github. You can find the source code incl. Maven Build in the subfolder jaxrs-spec. At the moment we’re rather busy to bring … Continue reading →

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