Shiny Adventures

Shiny Adventures

of a software developer, @jhipster board member, @jugpaderborn organizer and father

Frederik Hahne

tp link VR600v with congstar

After the recent thunderstorm killed my old Fritz!Box we needed a new router. As I never used a lot of the features a Fritz!Box has to offer I looked for alternatives. Finding a router with integrated modem and phone functions reduces the amount of devices, In the end I needed to decide between the highend devices Fritz!Box 7590, TP-Link VR2800v and the entry level VR600v. I would have also considered the mid level VR900v but currently only the older revision v1 is available.

Frederik Hahne

greenmail with jhipster bowtie

When it comes to testing JHipster provides a wide range of tests out of the box. Recently I found Greenmail. Greenmail is a java library to test sending and receiving of emails from Java. This is quite useful during to development to test sending of emails (e.g. to check if all is configured correctly or if the responsiveness is fine in different email clients). Furthermore you can use greenmail in unit or integration tests which makes the setup of such tests easier as the sending of emails must…

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