DEVelopments - by Łukasz Monkiewicz

New Project: Effective Spring

22 May 2020May 22, 2020Łukasz MonkiewiczPostsBook, Java, Microservices, Software craftsmanship, spring, spring-boot, spring-dataLeave a comment

Often we don’t know how to use certain technology, we blindly look for tips and gather code snippets from different places of internet hoping to somehow glue it all together in a working application, for better or worse. We lack understanding of why we are doing some things, why that snippet looks like that, why

Monthly books update (10.2018)

27 October 2018October 27, 2018Łukasz MonkiewiczBooksLeave a comment

Another month and another few books read. This time 4 new titles and one that I have already read some time ago.

Is my test easy to understand? – Testing #2

18 October 2018October 19, 2018Łukasz MonkiewiczPostsJava, Software craftsmanship, TDD, TestLeave a comment

So you have tests, they are well named, well structured, with given, when, then blocks and all that beautiful things, they can even fit on a screen! But do you know how and what part of your code these tests test?

What makes a test good? – Testing #1

7 October 2018October 19, 2018Łukasz MonkiewiczPostsSoftware craftsmanship, TDD, TestLeave a comment

Last time I wrote a bit about the importance of testing your code. This time I’ll focus more on what test has to have.

Monthly books update (09.2018)

30 September 2018September 29, 2018Łukasz MonkiewiczBooksBookLeave a comment

A short update on my reading/listening list of the past month.

Why you do not write tests?

23 September 2018September 27, 2018Łukasz MonkiewiczPostsSoftware craftsmanship, TDD, TestLeave a comment

Probably every developer will agree that testing software is important, everyone expects from third-party library or application that it will work, that it is well written and thoroughly tested, even if it’s free and you do not have to pay for it. So if everyone agrees, why so many developers don’t test their code?

The Junior Tech Lead

11 September 2018September 27, 2018Łukasz MonkiewiczPostsSoftware craftsmanshipLeave a comment

About one year ago, out of a sudden, I was given an opportunity for a Tech Lead position in a scrum team, and everything changed…

Code Europe, again!

7 December 2017December 7, 2017Łukasz MonkiewiczPostsCode Europe, ConferenceLeave a comment

Another Code Europe in 2017 just took place in Warsaw, if you missed, just like I did, you can still check it out on 9th of December in Wrocław. Here are some lectures that in my opinion are worth to go and listen if you can.

The curse of @Autowired

7 November 2017November 10, 2017Łukasz MonkiewiczPostsArchitecture, Java, spring5 Comments

Autowired annotation from Spring Framework is a wonderful thing. It makes a development of complex applications pretty easy, objects appear in your class automagically! You just splat an annotation on a field and voila! Magic happens. But it’s not a magic bullet that you should plug in everywhere.

Books

26 October 2017October 26, 2017Łukasz MonkiewiczPostsLeave a comment

This time it will be a really short post about books.