Tips for Reducing Dependency Upgrade Toil with Renovate (5 mins read).
Some tips I've picked up while working with Renovate to keep my projects up-to-date.
by 
Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#renovate
#open-source
#security.
Kind articles
Week Notes 21#37 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-09-13?
by Jamie Tanna
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#week-notes.
Week Notes 21#36 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-09-06?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Packaging Wiremock Extensions into the Standalone Server Runner (2 mins read).
How to use Gradle to package a standalone JAR for Wiremock, including any extensions needed.
Testing Java Callbacks with Mockito (1 mins read).
How to test invoking a real callback in a Java project, as a unit test.
Providing a Public Salary History Page (2 mins read).
Publishing my salary and compensation history for public use.
by Jamie Tanna
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#salary
#job.
Releasing a Java Library for Gherkin Formatting (4 mins read).
Announcing the release of a Java library that can pretty-format a Gherkin feature file.
Pushing Back to Git In a Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline (1 mins read).
How to push back to a Git repo using a Jenkins multibranch pipeline.
Week Notes 21#35 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-08-30?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 21#34 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-08-23?
by Jamie Tanna
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#week-notes.
Using Bill of Materials to Simplify Dependency Management (3 mins read).
Producing a Bill of Materials to simplify dependency management for Java projects.
Making Your Gherkin Scenarios Written Using Human-Readable Language (4 mins read).
A lukewarm take about why you should use natural language, so someone not-as-technical can read it and still derive value.
by Jamie Tanna
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#software-testing
#cucumber
#communication.
Week Notes 21#33 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-08-16?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
I'm Joining the Cabinet Office (5 mins read).
Announcing my move into the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) as a Tech Lead.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#personal
#job
#announcement
#capital-one
#cddo.
Week Notes 21#32 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-08-09?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Using Abstract Test Classes To Reduce Duplication in Java (4 mins read).
How to use Java's abstract classes to reduce duplication of code across unit tests with common functionality.
by Jamie Tanna
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#java
#junit5
#testing.
Week Notes 21#31 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-08-02?
by Jamie Tanna
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#week-notes.
Week Notes 21#30 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-07-26?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Introducing a Microformats API for Books: books-mf2.fly.dev (2 mins read).
Announcing the Microformats translation layer for book data.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#microformats
#micropub
#reading
#books-mf2.
Encoding Strings for Embedding in JSON with Ruby on the Command-Line (1 mins read).
How to easily convert a string to a format that can be used as a value for JSON strings.
Week Notes 21#29 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-07-19?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 21#28 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-07-12?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Programatically Comparing Versions Using Chef's Versioning Schemes (1 mins read).
How to use Chef's versioning classes to determine whether a version constraint is matched.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#chef
#ruby.
Week Notes 21#27 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-07-05?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 21#26 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-06-28?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Parsing Encoded JSON Strings on the Command-Line with Ruby (1 mins read).
How to decode an encoded JSON string.
Week Notes 21#25 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-06-21?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Testing that your Spring Boot Application Context is Correctly Configured (2 mins read).
How to improve the tests you've got to validate that Spring Boot's context is set up correctly.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#java
#spring-boot
#testing.
Decrypting Encrypted JSON Web Tokens (JWE) with Ruby (1 mins read).
How to use Ruby to decrypt encrypted JSON Web Token objects.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#ruby
#jwt.
Week Notes 21#24 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-06-14?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 21#23 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-06-07?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Running Multiple JDK Versions with the Gradle Toolchains Configuration (2 mins read).
How to use the Gradle's toolchain configuration to configure multiple JDKs on your machine.
Week Notes 21#22 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-05-31?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Testing Data Serialisation/Deserialization using JsonTest with Spring Boot (3 mins read).
How to use the @JsonTest test type in Spring Boot to validate your JSON types correctly serialise/deserialise.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#java
#testing
#spring-boot
#blogumentation.
Default Your Tests to run in Parallel (2 mins read).
Discussing the benefits you can achieve by having parallel-by-default.
by Jamie Tanna
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#software-quality
#software-testing
#quality-engineering
#testing.
Writing Better Wiremock Stubs (3 mins read).
How to improve the specificity of Wiremock tests to allow for not clobbering other scenarios, and enabling scalable test runs.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#software-quality
#software-testing
#quality-engineering
#testing
#wiremock.
Writing Better Tests (1 mins read).
Announcing a new series of posts about improving the way we write tests.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#software-quality
#software-testing
#quality-engineering
#testing.
Migrating Your Spring Boot Application to use Structured Logging (6 mins read).
How to make your Spring Boot services more supportable by migrating to JSON-emitting structured logging.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#spring
#spring-boot
#java
#slf4j
#logs.
Week Notes 21#21 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-05-24?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Avoiding NoClassDefFoundError errors when using slf4j-test with Logback and Maven (2 mins read).
How to exclude Logback from the classpath when testing your logs using slf4j-test and Maven.
Marking up my Curriculum Vitae with Microformats2 (2 mins read).
Creating a public, metadata-rich Curriculum Vitae / Resume for myself at https://hire.jvt.me.
by Jamie Tanna
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#microformats
#cv
#interviewing
#hire.jvt.me.
Week Notes 21#20 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-05-17?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 21#19 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-05-10?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Configuring a Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline to Specify the Trust Permissions with Job DSL (1 mins read).
How to specify the trust permissions for a GitHub project on a Jenkins Multibranch pipeline, when using Job DSL.
Week Notes 21#18 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-05-03?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 21#17 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-04-26?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Features I Want In My Social Reader (6 mins read).
What sort of functionality do I want in my social reader, so I can follow awesome people's thoughts more easily?
How to get a field with Reflection in Java (1 mins read).
How to use Java's Reflection to get access to a private of a class.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#java.
Server-less Wiremock, or Using Wiremock Without an HTTP Server (3 mins read).
How to match Wiremock's stubs without running an HTTP Server.
Adding API Versioning to your Environment-Agnostic Functional Acceptance Tests (6 mins read).
How to adapt the Proxy pattern to allow for testing against a versioned API.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#java
#testing
#testing
#software-testing
#cucumber
#software-quality
#quality-engineering.