Adding Static Content To Spring Boot MVC
As I learn new frameworks, I often get a good idea stuck in my head that I really want to implement. Often, the idea is overly ambitious for my knowledge of the tool, but sometimes it hits the sweet...
View ArticleCreating Test Services with Spring Boot
Boots on Vacation by wonderferret One of the coolest new technologies from the Spring Foundation has to be the new Spring Boot project. Spring Boot takes all the common template / bootstrap / setup...
View ArticleDo Not Fear the Computer
When starting anything new, most people have a fear of doing something, anything, wrong. For me, it is one of the most difficult reactions that I need to overcome before truly understanding a...
View ArticleVulnerabilies of Good Intentions
One of the saddest vulnerabilities introduced into applications are those that are created by design. These vulnerabilities are explicitly written into application requirements or have specific user...
View ArticleLets set up Ember.js
Trick dog jumping through a ring of fire Ember.js is an interesting creature. This is the first client-side MVC I’ve looked into. Apparently calling these applications “single page apps” are looked...
View ArticleAlways Be Refactoring
If there is one thing you can do to improve your coding skills, it would have to be refactoring existing code. Start with some old code written by someone who didn’t know better (possibly you) – code...
View ArticleThe Migration Problem
Being able to write code for programmers has an interesting problem. What do you do when you want to change the API or how a component works? Typically, in an object oriented approach, you ensure that...
View ArticleCreating a Reusable URL with Spring RestTemplate
South Beach, Staten Island, Is Safe for Swimming It’s a fact. Spring has a way of simplifying development in a developer-centric way. Spring’s RestTemplate gets us an easy to use REST interface. We can...
View ArticleImpossible Machines
Ford Focus Commercial – Oh how I hate you Honestly, does this sell cars? What is the argument here? “Don’t you hate it when you have to choose between voice navigation or better than average gas...
View ArticleKH3 on PS4
It was announced yesterday, Kingdom Hearts 3 will be released on the PS4, and I’m a bit disappointed. I’ve been a fan of the Kingdom Hearts series for a long time now. I even get into the convoluted...
View ArticleLets set up Spring MVC
Mountain farms along the Skyline Drive in Virginia by The Library of Congress, on FlickrWelcome to the Modern Web, here’s your library. Spring MVC comes standard with the monolith that is the Spring...
View ArticleSecurity and Usability
With respect to my last post, cars are actually quite easy to learn and use despite their extreme complexity. A driver can easily move from one vehicle to the next and comfortable operate it with only...
View ArticleLet’s Have a Little Talk About Usability
One of the most interesting things about cars, from a usability point of view, is how easy it is to drive one. Once you’ve learned how to drive one, nearly any other car or truck is easy to learn But...
View ArticleThere is No Such Thing as Two
Years ago, I don’t know where, I don’t know when, I heard the statement “There is no such thing as two.” It was about programming in general, and the definition went something like this: You can do...
View ArticleSpammers Be Spamming
It’s bad enough that you are spamming me, but did you really have to call my posts “rife with spelling errors”? Even if it is true, that’s just not nice Mr. Porn spammer.
View ArticleThe New Console Wars
With the release of the XBox One, the new console wars have finally begun. Depending on whom you talk to, the reaction is either a big yawn or an enraged scream. Of the three big consoles, none really...
View ArticleZelda’s Phantom Menace
About a week ago, I started playing The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, a DS game from 2007. Now, at about the halfway point, I feel it is important to note the annoying design choices in the game....
View ArticleYou should be ashamed of yourself
Computer Science, as a field, is relatively young. New advances are being created daily; both the theory and implementation are evolving at a rapid rate. The tools we use, both hardware and software,...
View ArticleSetting Up Spring Batch
Lets do the setup work that we’ll rely on for the rest of the project. We want to configure Spring Batch’s database, configure logging and create a simple reader and writer. All code available on the...
View ArticleGLExtension Registry
Image by The US Food and Drug Administration Well, after that sad Heroku mess, I’ve given up temporarily on cloud experiments (although, I will probably look into Cloud Foundry once I get interested...
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