This week I got a new project for which I should be responsible from beginning to the end. Because there is only a quite blurry description of what the project should be like, I have to do some interviews with our customers. …

This week, I had to add highlighting functionality to the search field of my project. Currently, whenever I click on a search result on the frontend, it opens the corresponding documentation. These documentations are really long and therefore it is taking a long time to find the section in the…

Last week I had the job to add ElasticSearch to my project. Since my Application relies now on a third party service, I have to make sure that ElasticSearch is running. On startup, my application uses ElasticSearch to build up an index. This means ElasticSearch has to be started before…

This week, I had to add Elasticsearch to my project. Since the client for Elasticsearch needs a running server to establish a connection and make requests, my project now has a dependency to other infrastructure. …

Last week, I had to add search functionality to my website. There already was some kind of search mechanism, but it could only list files based on their title and not their content. Since the content is the most important part of these files, I needed to find ways to…

This week, I had to add a new feature to a project that I started a whole year ago and didn’t touch for a pretty long time. When I first looked at my code that I considered pretty clean at the moment I wrote it, I was shocked, how inconsistent…

A few months ago, I created a story about Domain Driven Design (DDD) with a pretty high level overview about what is and is not part of the DDD language. In this story I want to have a more specific eye on the Context Maps in DDD. Why use Context Mapping? A context map…

A few weeks ago, I had a project where I wanted to display a menu with different entries and hierarchies on a web-app. The picture above is the end result of this tree structure. To do this, first of all, I needed to create the menu structure itself. …

This week I had to create a dynamic tree structure with Kotlin and Thymeleaf. I had a dataClass Node, which has children, metadata and a title. These children are also Nodes that themselves and therefore can also have children. The last of these Nodes is called a leaf which contains…