There was a time (not so long ago) when we designed everything before we wrote any code. We gathered the requirements of our application and wrote the requirement specification. We took these requirements and designed an architecture that helped us to fulfill them. We wrote an architecture design document as a guide that we followed […] Read more
Although we can create a working application by using only one module, sometimes it is wiser to divide our application into multiple smaller modules. Because this is a rather common use case, every self-respecting build tool must support it, and Gradle is no exception. If a Gradle project has more than one module, it is […] Read more
This is the first time when I write an annual review and reveal my goals for the next year. The goal of this review is to answer two questions: What went well in 2014? What did not go well in 2014? I will also reveal my goals for the year 2015. The idea behind this […] Read more
Yesterday I published the list of the most popular blog posts that I wrote in 2014. I also promised to choose my favorite blog posts and publish that list on my blog. This year I decided to select blog posts that helped me to learn something new. Here are my favorite blog posts that I […] Read more
The year 2014 is almost over, and this means that it is time to publish the most popular blog posts that I wrote during this year. I selected these blog posts by using Google Analytics. I selected all blog posts that were published during 2014 and picked the blog posts that had the most page […] Read more
This year I greeted Christmas in a different fashion: I was a part of the Java Advent Calendar. Let's boot up for Christmas: Spring Boot is an opinionated framework that simplifies the development of Spring applications. It frees us from the slavery of complex configuration files and helps us to create standalone Spring applications that […] Read more