Personal current trends on software development

Most productive development environment (server-side):

• Java 8 + Spring Frameworks + SpringBoot
• jOOq or Hibernate
• Maven as build tool 
• Eclipse or IntelliJ as IDE

Most productive web development environment (single-page applications):

• React.js with WebPack
• Typescript 
• Atom or Vim as editor
• NPM as build tool

 Most productive mobile development environment:

• Groovy as programming language
• Gradle build tool
• IntelliJ as IDE 

Most interesting programming model:

• Clojure/Lisp
• Elixir/Erlang

Most useful getting-things-done tool:

• Go programming language
• Docker

My first component uploaded to Maven Central

A few years ago I gathered this pagination component logic from a co-worker and changed it a little bit, adding some desirable functionality and reducing some external dependencies.

I've used in several projects, web-oriented and desktop-based and it accomplishes its works, pagination.

Today I spent a couple of hours configuring it for Maven Central, just to check if I could do it.

So, here it is, my first component published on Maven Central that can be used if you want to. I really like it and I encourage anybody to check it, review it, criticize it and trash it.

• Project page on github
• Base code author - Rory Sandoval

Ant and Maven, a brief comparison

I've been working for the last three years and during this period of time the projects I've been involved with have the same discussion:

which build tool should I use?...and the most common answers were...Ant and Maven

You can check some statistics to see which one is going to rule the market, honestly I think Ant will never leave.

But I must say that there's a very important difference between Ant and Maven, Ant is task-oriented with the possibility of handling project-related configurations. And Maven is project-oriented with the possibility of handling task-related configurations.

Considering that, I have these questions that might help you to decide between the right tool:

Maven

1. Do you need to keep standard project structures?
2. Do you want to avoid manual tasks/steps?
3. Do your projects have dependencies to another projects/libraries/frameworks?
4. Do you have a fairly good Internet connection?
5. Do you like to follow the Convention over configuration way?

Ant

1. Do your projects are very different one from another?
2. Do your projects have very different structures?
3. Do you customize your projects so they behave in a very specific way?
4. Do you already have a tight workspace structure that doesn't fit in the Maven world?
5. Do you need to have full control over what your projects do?

Some of these questions might be incorrect, but those are the ones coming to my head right now, so feel free to use them or not.