Prevent overload with remote kind clusters (January 16, 2023)
Kubernetes can require a lot of resources, which can overload a developer's laptop. This article shows you how to use a set of tools—including kind, kubeconfig, and Podman or Docker—to spread your files around remote systems in support of your local development work....
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Protect secrets in Git with the clean/smudge filter (February 2, 2022)
When working on public Git repositories, you need to pay close attention so that you don't accidentally push secret information such as tokens, private server addresses, personal email addresses, and the like. One of the tools that can help you is Git's clean/smudge filter....
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Testing Java with JUnit Pioneer (May 24, 2021)
Browsing a project's test cases is a common approach to better understanding the codebase. Making our tests readable has a tremendous impact on this approach's feasibility. For that, JUnit Pioneer is a mandatory tool in your toolset...
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Property-Based Matrix Testing in Java (April 13, 2021)
I've used a common approach for property-based matrix testing in Java. Using JUnit's ParameterizedTest and a MethodSource annotations to point to a method as an argument supplier that spits out a stream representing a matrix...
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Migrating to Java Platform Module System (January 12, 2021)
This tutorial presents a complex scenario of migrating a non-modular project to JPMS. Inspired by a scenario I previously faced where one of my transitive dependencies was in-accessible (and not required)...
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Dependency Injection in Java is easy Part 3: Spring Context (August 14, 2020)
This post is part of a multiple-part tutorial. As the heading suggests, this part will focus on Dependency Injection using Spring Context...
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Dependency Injection in Java is easy Part 2: Google Guice (August 9, 2020)
This post is part of a multiple-part tutorial. As the heading suggests, this part will focus on Dependency Injection using Google Guice...
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Dependency Injection in Java is easy Part 1: A Design Pattern (August 8, 2020)
This is part of a multiple-part tutorial. This first part will explain the concept of Dependency Injection, a design pattern used for achieving Inversion of Control by writing loosely coupled code...
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Combining Groovy and Java (August 6, 2020)
Combining Groovy scripts in our Java-based code, is easy with Maven...
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Alexa Skills Testing with Java (February 21, 2021)
This tutorial will help you write automated test cases for Alexa skills written in Java. Using real-life JSON requests and verifying multi-turn interactions without deploying or hosting the skill...
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My Ultimate Development Container image (August 14, 2020)
Using VSCode's Remote Development Feature, we can remotely develop on another station using SSH or WSL. But my favorite feature is using Containers. We can potentially create isolated development... Using VSCode's Remote Development Feature, we can remotely develop on another station using SSH or WSL. But my favorite feature is using Containers. We can potentially create isolated development...
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Experimenting with RobotFramework and Selenium (August 6, 2020)
This is an example C# WebApp tested using Selenium browser automation with Nunit testing framework for unit tests and Robot Framework automation framework for acceptance tests...
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