Spring Framework has a good support for injecting property values found from properties files into bean or @Configuration classes. However, if we inject individual property values into these classes, we will face some problems. This blog post identifies these problems and describes how we can solve them. Let’s get started. If you use Spring Boot, […] Read more

If our code has obvious faults, we are very motivated to improve it. However, at some point we decide that our code is "good enough" and move on. Typically this happens when we think that the benefits of improving our existing code are smaller than the required work. Of course, if we underestimate our return […] Read more

One of the misconception that is often associated with agile software development is that agile teams won’t write any technical documentation. I assume that this misconception is so common because the agile manifesto states that we should value working software over comprehensive documentation. Also, since some of us have experience from writing long technical documents […] Read more

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

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