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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.

Some weeks ago I talked to some other IT guys about what kind of qualifications software developers really need. Employers and recruiters are usually looking for practical experience in certain technologies or with specific products; but these change quickly over time. Thus it could easily be that somebody got employed for his (or her) experience with e.g. Java EE from …

In my experimental side-project, Gleanius [1], a microlearning app, I am using Event-Sourcing [2] and CQRS [3, 4]. This turned out to be an extremely good decision because several times I later found out that new features needed more information in my read model. And the great thing was that in most cases the information was already available in the …

You know these ugly ES6/TypeScript import statements with endless sequences of “../../..” like in this example: