Bad code practices : don’t review them, but write code to ban them.

By LiBePosted on Friday 24 May 2019Friday 24 May 2019Cat G33k, ProgrammesLeave a comment

This is getting boring when you are in charge of software quality : "- stop sending primitive values in your parameters""- remove this foreign data structure from the code, it is error prone""- why can't you just isolate this in a separate role ?" I found myself repeating over and over these kind of sentences.… Read More »

Learn how to group expensive calls with the coroutines

By LiBePosted on Tuesday 30 April 2019Tuesday 30 April 2019Cat G33k, ProgrammesLeave a comment

In a micro-service fashion, everything is streamlined to small domains, small actions and therefore fast responses. This is theorically true, BUT. Sometimes we may want to access to expensive in time information. Either a partner api which is slow, or a restricted access to a confidential network which takes seconds to route correctly. You will… Read More »

(storybook) how to extract some source code using webpack

By LiBePosted on Sunday 31 March 2019Sunday 31 March 2019Cat G33k, ProgrammesLeave a comment

If you know storybook well, you may know what storysource addon is. The addon lets you see the caller code responsible for displaying the story (I mean the component) in preview. This looked pretty straightforward and efficient. (see https://storybooks-official.netlify.com/) Since then, several developers wanted to edit the story while on the screen without needing an… Read More »

Spring boot : checks at startup

By LiBePosted on Wednesday 27 February 2019Wednesday 27 February 2019Cat G33k, ProgrammesLeave a comment

For some reasons, your can mess up with the connectivity : lab hostnames in prod, unavailable dependencies or wrong network routing rules. You can use some health indicators in spring boot to check the health of your spring boot application. The actuator framework exposes an endpoint which replies with UP or DOWN Hitting the endpoint… Read More »

Your next acceptance tests framework… bash ?

By LiBePosted on Thursday 31 January 2019Wednesday 27 February 2019Cat G33k, ProgrammesLeave a comment

I have been trying several frameworks to test my pieces of software. The choice was difficult to make between cucumber-js, cucumber-java or karate.All of them need a complex runtime. Either by installing a node_modules packages directory with a lot of dependencies, or by installing them in a .m2/repository directory. I was wondering myself : Is… Read More »

Java tip : “add suffix if not present”

By LiBePosted on Tuesday 8 January 2019Tuesday 8 January 2019Cat G33k, ProgrammesLeave a comment

Found that when I was trying to force the suffix of a xpath query to be /text() query.replaceFirst("(.*)(?<!/text\$\$)$", "$1/text()") appends /text() if not the case already. Read More »

Gatsby : How about a … github hosted site ?

By LiBePosted on Monday 31 December 2018Tuesday 1 January 2019Cat G33k, ProgrammesLeave a comment

If you are not new to publishing content on the web, you certainly know that you were presented several options in the past :- install wordpress then customize the themes as much as possible, install a database and use the editor- setup a blogpost, use a built in theme, then write posts- install a content… Read More »

kotlin live

By LiBePosted on Friday 30 November 2018Cat G33k, ProgrammesLeave a comment

If you are among these ones : You want to practice some code but you don't want to open an IDE You are presenting some slides and you don't want to switch between the deck and the editor You are just beginning to write some code and you don't want to install the big SDK… Read More »

Write an unit test without mocking the rest template

By LiBePosted on Wednesday 31 October 2018Wednesday 31 October 2018Cat G33k, ProgrammesLeave a comment

How would you call a JUnit test that calls an external service ? -> An integration test, why not... How about a JUnit test that replaces the implementation of the repository layer by a mock ? -> An unit test, fine. Would you appreciate to write an unit test that simulates the integration without the… Read More »

Now a member of the storybook team

By LiBePosted on Sunday 30 September 2018Sunday 30 September 2018Cat Blabla, G33kLeave a comment

Hello, unfortunately not much to write in this blog, because more involved in team-owned projects rather than in self-driven projects. I have joined forces with the storybook team to help them (at my scale) to release a new version (storybook 4) supporting a wide range of View libraries. Storybook is to the UI developer what… Read More »