Jens Knipper

Recent Posts

  • February 16, 2021

    Manually testing email notifications with GreenMail mock mail server

    Are you sending mails featured with HTML and CSS and want see how they look before pushing your changes to production? You also do not want mails to leak from your local environment to your customer? A mock mail server like GreenMail might just be the tool you need.

  • October 14, 2020

    Generating generic fields in JCodeModel

    Another article about JCodeModel. This time we will make a short excursion about how to generate generic fields in JCodeModel.

  • October 11, 2020

    Generating Enums in Java with JCodeModel

    This article will show you how to generate your own enum classes with jCodeModel. A framework to generate java classes.

  • July 03, 2020

    Using Maven on Windows with the Linux subsystem

    Installing and configuring Maven on Windows does not have to be a pain anymore. Thanks to the WSL it becomes almost as straightforward as using Linux. Although depending on your use case there might be some restrictions.

  • May 17, 2020

    Testing Regular Expressions in Traefik

    Testing regular expressions for application configuration is always a pain as every programming language has a slightly different implementation. This results in expressions giving different results for different applications.