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Creating a Chrome extension

June 1, 2020

In this post, I will show you how to create a simple Chrome extension, using just JavaScript, HTML and CSS. I will also summarize all what a Chrome extension can do, and I will introduce how to create more complex extensions based on modern JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular or Vue.

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Migrating JUnit4 Rules to JUnit5

May 10, 2020

Writing tests is time consuming and can contain many repetitive tasks like setting up the specific configuration and cleaning the context after the test. To best follow the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle, I started implementing JUnit4 rules. In this blog post, I will show how I migrated a JUnit4 rule to JUnit5.

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Code Folding for JSON Data

May 1, 2020

In Pair Programming sessions, we often exchange tips and tricks. Regardless of experience and title, there is a decent chance for new insights. Today in this blog post, I share my ideas, how to deal with large structures of data encoded in JSON.

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How To Debug Mobile Traffic

April 27, 2020

Recently we faced an "interesting" problem: We received seemingly random reports for failing logins to our customer's website. Only after a lot of experimenting we could narrow the problem down to specific mobile devices. This forced us to go a level deeper and investigate the problem on the protocol level.

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