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I think that the best part of writing a blog is to get comments from my readers. Because I have learned a lot from my readers, I want to “reward” the best comments, help you to learn new things, and (hopefully) encourage people to leave more comments. The rules are simple: I select X best […] Read More about The Best Comments of December 2015

Yesterday I published 10 most popular blog posts which I wrote in 2015. I also promised to choose my favorite blog posts and publish that list on my blog. This year I decided to select blog posts that fulfill these requirements: The blog post was published during 2015 AND it wasn't one of my most […] Read More about My Favorite Blog Posts of 2015

The year 2015 is almost over, and this means that it is time to publish the most popular blog posts which I wrote during this year. I selected these blog posts by following these steps: I created a list of all blog posts which were published during 2015. I selected the blog posts that had […] Read More about 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015

When we are writing a web application, we often face a requirement which states that our application must provide reporting to its users. Typically the users of our application want to see these reports on the user interface and have the possibility to export them as Excel and/or PDF documents. The problem is that creating […] Read More about Spring From the Trenches: Creating PDF Documents With Wkhtmltopdf

I have a toolkit that helps me to do my job. It is not easy to earn a place in my toolkit because I want that my tools make my life easier. This means that they must be easy to use (or easy to learn). Unfortunately the world is full of useful development tools that […] Read More about 3 Disasters Which I Solved With JProfiler

The RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) is a YAML -based language that is used for describing REST(ful) APIs. I like the RAML syntax because it's text based, versatile, and easy to use. However, when I publish a REST API, I must provide readable API documentation or no one will use my API. This blog post […] Read More about Generating HTML Documentation From RAML Documents With Maven