While developing and evolving a REST API, using Java EE, there are some cases where you would like to have a look on the incoming HTTP request, specifically the header params, in a more fine grained (per case) way, rather than a Servlet Filter or the more specific ContainerRequestFilters . One potential way, which I …

Έχουμε ήδη καλύψει το μεγαλύτερο κόστος που θα αντιμετωπίσεις με το που έρθεις δεν είναι άλλο από την κατοικία. Θα προχωρήσω ευρύτερα στο κόστος ζωής όπως πχ, τρόφιμα, αγορά και άλλες υπηρεσίες. Γενικά Το Λουξεμβούργο είναι ένα ακριβό μέρος, ίσως από τα πιο ακριβά στην κεντρική Ευρώπη. Μπορείς να δεις στοιχεία εδώ αλλά …

This is something I wanted to write for some months now, especially after my relocation to a new country and a new market. It is about team bonding and performance, in the context of software development teams. A lot of stuff have been written in books around management or team leading, things like the role of the …

An old friend from the greek internets George B (aka Άχθος Αρούρης or snolly), he had his summer vacation on the beautiful island of Crete . Not only that, he was geek enough to take a drone among his luggage, a drone. yeap a drone. So you have a geek, a drone and summer vacations in a beautiful Greek island and this …

This post is not targeting people who already consider themselves MacOSX powerusers or they already are users of brew and cask. I have to admit, I discovered the power and easiness of these tools, quite late in my MacOSX user life, so I have to thank my ex-colleague and friend Harris who forced me to integrate brew and …

Lately, I have been considering using Swagger (core and it's related maven plugin) for one project, in order to provide some REST API documentation. Despite the fact, that Swagger is indeed a very powerful library, doable to integrate on your JAXRS 2.0 code base and the maven plugin works at the end of the day I think …

Personal note to me rather than something special, if you use Boot2Docker on your MacOSX and you want an easy way to your docker command line client to connect to the underlying boot2docker vm, add on your /.bash_profile_ file the following line. Credit's to this stackoverflow post. 1bash $(boot2docker shellinit …

I have recently finished reading Java EE7 Development with Wildfly by Michał Ćmil, Michał Matłoka and Francesco Marchioni, from Packt, I really liked it, since it covers two of my favorite subjects. JavaEE7 is my technology stack of choice, so I really like reading books around it and Wildfly which I personally believe …

Series it's been a long time since my last post, for this series of tutorials. it's time to resume and add new features on our simple project. As I have mentioned in previous posts, this series of posts is targeting mostly Maven and JavaEE7 newcomers, I welcome any questions or comments (and fixes) on the contents …

Well tested code is a concept that many developers talk about every day, lots of great authors write books and articles around it, several tools are being developed that aim to help developers to do it faster and efficiently. Despite all the above, testing is something like a lost art, many development teams ignore …