My 2cents …

There are a lot of places (>5)to set the UTF-8 encoding for your maven project. But only one is important! So don't forget to set this in your maven parent pom:

<properties>
  <project.build.sourceEncoding> UTF-8 </project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>

Git-Flow as a branching strategy for your Git Repositories:

Git-Flow.

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static code analysis would have prevented this nightmare: Apple’s SSL/TLS bug.

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