Thomas Bembridge

Written by Thomas Bembridge Software Developer working at SpareBank 1 in Norway. Opinions and ideas shared through this blog are my own. Follow me on Twitter!

Adding VSCode User Snippets to your project

January 14, 2018

On Friday, I was experimenting with creating some User Snippets in VSCode that would fit our current coding style and workflow. We are…

Summary of thoughts and learnings after attending Sam Newmans - Designing Microservices workshop @ NDC 2017

June 17, 2017

About Sam Newman Sam Newman is an author, speaker, and independent consultant interested in cloud, continuous delivery and microservices. He…

Testing Spring-Boot apps with Spock and Groovy - Part 1

March 21, 2017

Introduction Test-Driven Development seems to be one of those topics nowadays that almost everyone agrees is super important when it comes…

Spring-Boot-Create-React-App starter-kit

February 16, 2017

Last week I wrote a small post on how we where working on setting up a new front-end setup based on Create-React-App at work, New front-end…

New front-end setup based on Create-React-App

February 08, 2017

This week me and a colleague of mine are working on making some big changes to our React front-end setup. Its been a long time coming, but…

My first open source pull request

January 08, 2017

After starting to get a little more familiar with our current tech stack at work. I have been looking into finding some interesting open…

Thoughts and reflections heading into 2017

January 02, 2017

2016 For the last few years I have been on loan to various interesting R&D projects within the company. This has allowed me to focus on my…

Hosted services for code coverage and quality metrics - part 2

December 14, 2016

Finishing of this series ended up taking longer than I initially thought. I got a little side tracked after my first post, Hosted services…

Accessing your code quality metrics through the Codacy API

December 03, 2016

In my last blog post, Hosted services for code coverage and quality metrics - part 1 I went through how to get up and running with both…

Hosted services for code coverage and quality metrics - part 1

November 30, 2016

As mentioned in my previous blog post Spring Boot code quality metrics using SonarQube in docker we have been focusing on getting some tools…

Spring Boot code quality metrics using SonarQube in docker

November 23, 2016

As part of an effort to gain some visibility into our overall code quality we have been working on integrating some tools and services that…

Simplify your Springfox/Swagger setup with Springfox-Loader

November 22, 2016

Today I want to shine some light on Springfox-Loader, a nice little library written by a friend of mine, Jarle Hansen. What does it do…

Introduction

November 19, 2016

Hi there, My name is Thomas Bembridge. Welcome to my first real attempt at blogging! I will be writing about software development topics…