Using IntelliJ bookmarks

This is a quick post about IntelliJ’s nice bookmark feature. IntelliJ gives you the option to bookmark single lines of…

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An alternative approach of writing JUnit tests (the Jasmine way)

Recently I wrote a lot of Jasmine tests for a small personal project. It took me some time until I…

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Using Markdown syntax in Javadoc comments

In this post we will see how we can write Javadoc comments using Markdown instead of the typical Javadoc syntax.…

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Building a simple RESTful API with Spark

Disclaimer: This post is about the Java micro web framework named Spark and not about the data processing engine Apache…

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Java File I/O Basics

Java 7 introduced the java.nio.file package to provide comprehensive support for file I/O. Besides a lot of other functionality this…

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Groovy 2.3 introduces traits

A few days ago the second beta of Groovy 2.3 got released. One of the major new Groovy 2.3 features…

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The Grails depedency injection inheritance pitfall

This blog post is about a small pitfall you should be aware of when combining dependency injection in Grails with…

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Java can finally join strings

I am sure you were in a situation in which you wanted to join multiple strings. If you were using…

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How you can benefit from Groovy Shell

This is a post about the Groovy Shell and how it can help you with your daily work (as long…

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