Björn Engel Software Engineer

About Me Projects

My Expertise

I'm a creative thinker and like to explore alternative solutions to problems and have an open mind about what will work best. I like solving problems and coming up with solutions in a timely manner. I thrive in team settings, and I think my ability to effectively communicate with others is what drives my ability to solve a variety of problems.

While working fulltime, I am also father and a spare time hobbyist in homeautomation.

Code

Java • Jee • EJB3 • JPA2 • Hibernate • JSON/REST • SQL • Python • bash • C • Informix 4gl • PHP • BPMN • UML • XML

Tools

Git • SVN • Maven • Eclipse • Liquibase • Gradle • Docker • Vagrant • Jenkins • Nexus • Ansible • Sensu

Platforms

Linux • Windows • Arduino • Raspberry Pi • ESP8266

Featured Projects

Examples in homeautomation

Examples in homeautomation

  • openHAB2
  • ESP8266
  • MQTT

My blog where I present a collection some interesting smart home examples based on my favorite homeautomation software openHAB. There will be some very simple cases but also more complex ones.

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JCR support added to Dropwizard

JCR support added to Dropwizard

  • Dropwizard
  • JCR
  • Jackrabbit

Dropwizard bundles that serves Java Content Repository and its reference implementation Apache Jackrabbit. The documentation for now is an example project only.

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properties-maven-plugin

properties-maven-plugin

  • Maven Plugin

A maven plugin that generates a simple Java class by a given properties-file. Goal is give an alternative to access properties. When the used property does not exist you will get an exception while compiling what is much better than a runtime exception.

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