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Previous Editions
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December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
- Happiness Comes From Solving Problems
- Good Work vs. Great Work
- Ask Why
- Don’t Take Orders, Make Suggestions!
September 2021
- What Does “Done” Mean?
- Maintain a Maintenance Schedule
- Integrate Work into Your Life
- Don’t Read Emails Before Lunch
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
- Spend Your Time Intentionally
- Take Structured Notes
- Eat That Frog!
- Pomodoros for Health and Focus
- Reflect Your Day
May 2021
April 2021
March 2021
- Do many things at once (but not in parallel)
- Intentional Reading - a Developer Superpower
- Pick a Daily Highlight to Focus On
- Creating and Analyzing Heap Dumps
- Meaningful Commit Messages
February 2021
- Painless Code Formatting with EditorConfig
- Getting Started with AWS S3 and Spring Boot
- Handling Cookies with Spring and the Servlet API
- The Open-Closed Principle Explained
January 2021
- Getting Started with GraphQL
- Git Merge vs. Git Rebase
- Getting Started with AWS CloudFormation
- Handling Exceptions with Spring Boot
December 2020
- Implementing a Circuit Breaker with Resilience4J
- Using Elasticsearch with Spring Boot
- From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS
- Make Time For What Matters
- Mock Modules with Spring Boot
- Get Your Thinking Juices Flowing