Author Archives: Sebastian Basner

JavaLand 2018

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 20. March 2018
Disclaimer: I may be a bit biased on the topic as I really like the conference from the beginning and attended in this years session review process. The 2018 edition of the still very young, community driven, Java conference JavaLand took place in the theme park “Phantasialand” in Brühl next to Cologne from March 13th-15th. […]
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Snapshotting PostgreSQL databases with templates using Spring JDBC

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 7. February 2018
Nowadays with the rise of more and more complex systems software testing is more important then ever. This not only includes unit testing but also integration-, end to end- and acceptance tests. For some of these test scenarios it is important to have a defined state of your database which could be reproduced in example […]
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Path environment variable at IntelliJ on macOS

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 16. January 2018
Lately I encountered a problem with IntelliJ on macOS I wasn’t aware of so far. For a new project I joined it was necessary to let Java execute a shell script which resides in /usr/local/bin and calls another script. Putting all the questions for the reason behind this aside I was pretty puzzled when I […]
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Automation via shell aliases

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 10. January 2018
When working on software development projects there are many repetitive tasks to do, may it be the deployment of a binary, starting of different servers in docker containers or standalone, the exchange of config files for different environments, the migration of a database or something simple as the navigation to deep paths on the command […]
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Integrating Flyway with Java EE and using its datasource

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 8. June 2017
Flyway is my favourite tool when it comes to database migrations because its convention over configuration approach makes it fairly easy to use while bootstrapping and configuration is reduced to a minimum. For those of you who don’t know anything about database migration tools (evolutionary database design) in short the concept is to track SQL scripts […]
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