“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live” – John Woods
LAURENT HINOUL
Hello there! My name is Laurent Hinoul. I’m a software developer who lives in Belgium. I mainly program in Java and use technologies/frameworks like Spring, Maven, Angular, MongoDB…
Besides developing, I’m interested in home automation and music. I am volunteering as a Firefighter and Paramedic too. But most importantly, I love to be a husband and father.
We as developers sometimes run into problems that takes us some time to resolve. Through this blog, I would like to share mine I took care of. Enjoy reading…
Each country has its own phone number format. But what if you want a universal layout for all types of phone numbers? You can use Libphonenumber. With Libphonenumber, you can change phone layouts, create your own layouts, cast layouts and many more!
To count a specific char from a String, you can simply use the Spring framework.
It is possible to test getters and setters (properties) from your model class. Through a test class, it is done in no time.
The equals and hashcode methodes are simple to test with JQNO.
To test your web service, you can use Smock. Smock compares your request with the response by XML files. You just need a response.xml file with your response and a request.xml file with your request.
A Java-map always contain a key and value (<key, value>). That key must always be unique so you can search your value by key. But what if you want to group values by key? Multimap, guava from Google gives you the solution.
An application with root name ‘myproject’ will have the following URL: ‘;.
I want change my URL to: ‘;.
How can I do that? With Maven.
Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. The goal is for homophones to be encoded to the same representation so that they can be matched despite minor differences in spelling. The algorithm mainly encodes consonants; a vowel will not be encoded unless it is the first letter. Soundex is the most widely known of all phonetic algorithms (in part because...
In Java, it’s not so hard to find the specific files you need from a directory. You can easily do that with the code below:
Don’t you also like to read full pages of license agreements before using freeware or open source software? Here is a tool that reads the license for you: