Blog – Thibault Helsmoortel | Site-Wide Activity https://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/activity/ Activity feed for the entire site. Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:55:30 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 afb01440060b50f32e4f8507eb8a1ce4 Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post https://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=299 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:15:55 +0100 A step towards more ecological software development Have you ever wondered if you, as a software developer, can do more to reduce your carbon footprint? What about the carbon footprint of all the […]

]]> 8ba9e0609d0b9d990b4d24d7b4b06a64 Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post https://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=278 Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:46:13 +0200 Building the Belgian Train Station Chrome Extension A while ago, I built my very first Chrome web extension, ‘Belgian Train Station’.I felt like playing around with Javascript for a bit again. […]

]]> c477686b78e572ca85f82c8e0a5530e6 Thibault Helsmoortel commented on the post, Programming Unlockable Achievements http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/java/programming-unlockable-achievements/#comment-44 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:36:14 +0100 Hi Thom. Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for your feedback. I haven’t written anything else related to this topic, butI thought it would be an added value to create an example repository on Github that you […]

]]> b675e284f01d4c180151690e3f149d03 Thibault Helsmoortel commented on the post, Adjust Loading Animations in Vaadin http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/general/adjust-loading-animations-vaadin/#comment-15 Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:23:00 +0200 Hi Vaibhav,

There’s a section on the centered spinner in the article as well, but I’m not sure if that’s what you are referring to. Do you want to modify the bar to make it a centered spinner or do you just want […]

]]> 8309a5e29388befe580a0c6c7f214796 Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=239 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:00:25 +0200 One of the new features in Java 9 is called ‘JShell’ and it’s awesome. It is basically a Read–Eval–Print Loop (REPL) implementation for the Java language.

You can run JShell in a command line environment (comm […]

]]> 9ceeecf2a37e617053961d4b40319a95 Thibault Helsmoortel commented on the post, Adjust Loading Animations in Vaadin http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/general/adjust-loading-animations-vaadin/#comment-13 Tue, 12 Sep 2017 06:50:29 +0200 Hi Christian, great to hear you got the color changed! Overriding that loading bar to become a spinner in the center of the page doesn’t seem like a great idea to be honest. Mostly the loading bar indicates page […]

]]> ad5c33296fd90fb5682646bc6eddc62b Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=193 Tue, 09 May 2017 16:00:01 +0200 Developing your navigation needs in default Vaadin is ok, but I thought it could be enhanced a bit. Hence the idea of creating a new addon, NavigationBuilder.
The Idea Behind the Addon
In fact there where […]

]]> f4801f154f4e2d94b0af996be7f13fb3 Thibault Helsmoortel commented on the post, Adjust Loading Animations in Vaadin http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/general/adjust-loading-animations-vaadin/#comment-10 Fri, 28 Apr 2017 06:17:41 +0200 Hi there. Thanks for letting me know. I have updated the post and it should be good now. Let me know if you’re still having issues. You might have to clear your browser cache in order to view the source in the proper format.

]]> 718cb0c34d63c2fbf7760871ae57c765 Thibault Helsmoortel commented on the post, First Impressions On Vaadin http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/java/first-impressions-vaadin/#comment-8 Fri, 21 Apr 2017 06:56:48 +0200 That is good to hear. I will check on it as soon as it enters a stable release stage. Thanks for your update.

]]> 9ac818c127ac6cbbe0f5628a587ffbdb Thibault Helsmoortel commented on the post, Managing Application Properties in Spring Boot http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/java/managing-application-properties-in-spring-boot/#comment-6 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 10:55:03 +0200 Thanks for letting me know, probably something went wrong while editing the post. Fixed it now.

]]> 753cadab012b01a50491a588d13ddd88 Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=179 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 12:00:08 +0200 Many projects deal with application-wide parameters, mostly called properties. These are inputs to the program, that wouldn’t normally be changed. They do however provide for simple setup in multiple […]

]]> 1896baf95b49e1e522a5cc2237fe50ec Thibault Helsmoortel commented on the post, First Impressions On Vaadin http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/java/first-impressions-vaadin/#comment-3 Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:04:50 +0100 Hey Matti, it is great to hear you think along. I have yet to take a look at your add-on and I will sometime soon.

I do believe there is still quite some room for improvement, so I’ll see what I can do to […]

]]> b3c40f6043f7ebb2d1053342ce09dd8e Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=153 Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:00:40 +0100 By default, loading animations in Vaadin are already pretty awesome, though you might want to adjust them to make them fit better with your custom theme.

While tweaking around with the animations myself, I […]

]]> 3920980ed54ebd1742128cdd5ad91715 Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=140 Mon, 06 Feb 2017 17:30:34 +0100 Lately I have been working a bit with Vaadin, a web UI framework for business applications. The framework offers an experience similar to Swing. ‘Similar’ is a very important word here. Vaadin uses a component […]

]]> 1d7c66b2460512b7aa7df4ca5abeb908 Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=127 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 17:30:41 +0100 The other day I took another look at my IntelliJ IDEA Plugin project, ‘Pastebin Unofficial’ and it’s notifications. At the time of writing this project is in a very early, basic stage, it is rather an idea that […]

]]> db60c61cf2d157b4a4bc87b45c9f5bf2 Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=118 Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:30:31 +0100 It’s that time of the year again! Holidays are coming up along with the usual festivities. Here’s about my past year and what’s to come in 2017.
Looking back
Overall 2016 was a great year. The major highlight […]

]]> b59ae71d115ec1d1411a64b892361b7c Thibault Helsmoortel posted an update: I feel I wasn't really so thorough on the first attempt... […] https://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/activity/p/10/ Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:40:20 +0100 I feel I wasn’t really so thorough on the first attempt… http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41298454/how-to-make-a-url-in-a-balloon-notification-clickable/41302563#41302563

]]> 0 ac704e8d8fa666a2cb2232f25a26de4a Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=97 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:30:28 +0100 As I was working on a small application, I started implementing a custom JToolTip to be used throughout the app, in stead of Swing’s default JToolTip.

Testing the application I was surprised by the behavior […]

]]> 705be90a58a8985409f89248a54a96af Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=88 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 17:30:52 +0100 Always wanted to do test reporting properly? Allure, an excellent framework to properly report your test runs does just what you’d expect from it.

The main purpose of Allure should be clear. It provides in […]

]]> 95c72e129e10802c7694954eff892300 Thibault Helsmoortel's profile was updated https://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/activity/p/5/ Wed, 07 Dec 2016 09:12:28 +0100 0 74df6fff3398e31e2ccf1192846e2b1e Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=81 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:30:18 +0100 With Jetbrains’ recent plugin, ‘JVM Debugger Memory View’ you can go the extra mile while debugging your applications in IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio. If you want to keep an eye on the heap, the plugin is a […]

]]> 1f69c23b53c465f8746141606a612d6b Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=53 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:30:45 +0100 So you wrote this game, but would now like to step up? Unlockable achievements is an aspect that enhances your game and it’s fun and interesting to program.

The Concept
Let’s elaborate on the actual purpose […]

]]> ce104aef505af868641d86cff46bffc3 Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=37 Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:30:44 +0200 Gremlins.js is a monkey testing library written in JavaScript. It is incredibly lightweight and perfect for your quick test runs. Find the repository on GitHub.
What it does
To be honest, I couldn’t […]

]]> e57b74473f3e23177e9086ec16b5b853 Thibault Helsmoortel wrote a new post http://blog.thibaulthelsmoortel.be/?p=25 Thu, 29 Sep 2016 16:30:16 +0200 Since my experience with Selenium is growing I become to understand it better every day. At first I was amazed about its possibilities. You can do a lot with Selenium WebDriver, but soon enough I came to realize […]

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