TEE: Teki Editorial Everywhere

When working with AWS S3, I often receive S3 URLs that are not publicly accessible. These links can't be opened directly in a web browser, and they come in many different formats. For example: https://bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/key or https://s3.region.amazonaws.com/bucket/key Each time, I had to manually: 1) Figure out which format it was. 2) Extract the bucket and key. 3) Open the AWS Console. 4) Navigate to the correct object. This routine was repetitive and time-consuming. So I built S3Mate . It's a small desktop gadget that lets me paste any S3 URL, automatically resolves the bucket and key, and quickly shows or operates on the object without switching tools. The application detail, source code and releases can be found at the repository of the gadget at  https://github.com/tekichan/s3mate Even though S3Mate is a small project, I picked up a few useful lessons along the way. 1. Building Native Desktop Apps with jpackage I learned how to use jpackage to turn a Java applicat...

Manchester Java Community hosted another great session in Thoughtworks . The speaker is Trisha Gee , co-author of the renowned book Head First Java .  The speaker pointed out that the productivity of developers did not mainly come from individual developer themselves but from the organisation which offers productive environments or not. The factor includes work space size, quietness, privateness, any diversion or needless interruption. On technology side, productivity can be improved by consistency and reliability of builds. Very fast feedback can improve productivity and quality, thus increase revenue, reduce cost and improve brand. References: DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY ENGINEERING: WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME? The 2019 Tidelift managed open source survey results Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams Software Productivity   The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement Improve the Performance of Gradle Builds CI fanout Netflix Pursues Soft DevEx Goals with Hard DevProd Metrics using Te...