The most important language enhancements that have been added to Java in the last 20 years — On January 23, 1996, Java was first released, and over the years, it has undergone significant changes. I started working with Java in the early 2000s, using J2SE 1.3, which lacked features that are now commonplace. Java 5 introduced generics, “for each” loops, annotations, autoboxing, and unboxing, resulting in more…

Reflections on Scrum and Agile — In 2016 I changed jobs and finally was able to work in a team using the Scrum Framework. The whole company had switched to Scrum shortly before. …

React is a Library, Not a Framework — Time flies. Five years ago we evaluated React, Angular, and Vue in our team and decided to go with React. Today, it looks like we made the right choice. React is still around — unlike many other JavaScript libraries and Google Trends shows success.

React on Rails! — I started working with React 5 years ago. Due to the Rails experience in the team, rails were set as the backend and for the frontend. After a short evaluation of Angular, React and Vue.js, React convinced us the most at that time. At that time there was no official…

20 years ago, when I started working as a programmer, we had our own test departments and teams that were only responsible for testing. There were hardly any automated tests. Everything was tested using textually described manual test cases. In today’s agile world this is hardly imaginable, today automated tests…

React is one of the most popular libraries to create comprehensive single page applications. Single page applications have a lot of advantages but also a few disadvantages, which are especially detrimental to the performance of websites. To improve the user experience of your website and especially the loading time of…