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Recently I’ve worked through the video course “The Complete Microservices with Spring Course” by MleTech Academy, LLC, which is an introduction to the most important Spring modules for building microservices.

A few months ago I’ve ran across an erasable notebook called infiniteBook (by EcoBook). I find it quite useful if I want sketch ideas on some piece of “paper” and be able to easily erase and correct parts like on a whiteboard at the wall.

The business model does not urge you into a subscription, like many similar services do, but is based on a one-time fee for each course up to several hundred US$/€. There are frequent sales where you can get many courses for just about US$/€ 11 to US$/€ 20. And you get lifetime access for this fee, even on the sales …

Having mostly used Java 7 in the last years and after some month of coding only with TypeScript, JavaScript and Solidity, I’ve now worked through the video course „Become at ease with Java 8“ by Stijn De Mulder. My motivation was to give me a refresh on Java 8 features, which I only knew from magazine articles and “playing around”.

I’ve just completed “Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer’s Guide”. It’s really a great course about Solidity/Ethereum smart contract development which enables the learner not just to write their own smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain, but also how to test it (manually and automated) and how to integrate it into a web application.