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Simon is a consultant, developer, and teacher who's always looking out for new technologies, frameworks, and ideas. His friends call him a clean code evangelist, but in a good way. ...more

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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Simon Harrer In the words of a famous sports company: "Just do it".

Don't let your fears and worries that you might have stop you. Just do it and you'll be surpris…moreIn the words of a famous sports company: "Just do it".

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Simon Harrer That's a long story. It all started in 2011 when I and Jörg (one of my co-authors) had the opportunity to design two new Java courses at University. I…moreThat's a long story. It all started in 2011 when I and Jörg (one of my co-authors) had the opportunity to design two new Java courses at University. In addition to teaching Java and Concurrency on the JVM, we wanted to teach clean code practices through code reviews of the students homeworks, interactive code reviews in class, and code reviews as part of the oral exam. Over the course of six years, we've seen and marked hundreds of thousand lines of Java code by beginners. And we started to see patterns, a lot of them. That's the main source of knowledge for "Java by Comparison".

With the second co-author, Linus, joining our group at University in 2016, we started to collect those anti-patterns, explain why they are problematic, provide a solution, and explan why the solution is better. That's how the two-page layout of "Java by Comparison" is born.

We hope you like it, and that it'll help you become a better programmer! :-)(less)

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	Data Mesh: Eine dezentrale Datenarchitektur entwerfen (Animals) by Zhamak Dehghani, Jochen Christ (translator), Simon Harrer (Goodreads Author) (translator) 3.78 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 2022 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Java by Comparison: Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples by Simon Harrer (Goodreads Author), Jörg Lenhard, Linus Dietz 4.24 avg rating — 127 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remote Mob Programming: At home, but not alone by Simon Harrer (Goodreads Author), Jochen Christ, Martin Huber 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	GitOps: Cloud-native Continuous Deployment by Florian Beetz, Anja Kammer (Goodreads Author), Simon Harrer (Goodreads Author) 3.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Effective and Efficient Process Engine Evaluation 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Java By Comparison by Simon Harrer (Goodreads Author), Jörg Lenhard, Linus Dietz 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars