Tag Archives: Java

Java Midwittery

Posted on July 22, 2024 by David K.
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Welcome to the “Future” of App Deployments

Posted on July 18, 2024 by David K.

I’m sitting here watching the braintrust in our IT organization tell everyone about a NEW! “PRO!” product that will do database migrations with Jenkins, and I’m just sitting over here thinking about the native migrations available by default in Ruby … Continue reading →

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From Node to Ruby on Rails | D U N K

Posted on December 16, 2021 by David K.

Building the web app in Rails took me 2 days – the same thing in Node would have taken 2 weeks. I’ve also included things I wouldn’t have attempted to build on Node/Express until I proved the idea out (editing … Continue reading →

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Kinda a big announcement – Joel on Software

Posted on June 4, 2021 by David K.

I took a few stupid years trying to be the CEO of a growing company during which I didn’t have time to code, and when I came back to web programming, after a break of about 10 years, I found … Continue reading →

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TECH | Stop using JPA/Hibernate · Blog de Laurent Stemmer

Posted on April 12, 2021 by David K.

Here an example of a JPA entity (using Lombok for “simplicity”): <sarcasm quotes mine> Source: TECH | Stop using JPA/Hibernate · Blog de Laurent Stemmer Through a very long series of unfortunate circumstances, I was backed into using Java/Spring/Hibernate/Angular in … Continue reading →

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What I wish I had known about single page applications – Stack Overflow Blog

Posted on February 24, 2021 by David K.

I settled on JHipster, a development platform for building web applications using modern technology: Angular, React or Vue for the client side, and Spring plus Gradle or Maven for the server side. It’s been around for years, is very well … Continue reading →

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Google And Oracle’s Decade-Long Copyright Battle Reaches Supreme Court : NPR

Posted on October 7, 2020 by David K.

Source: Google And Oracle’s Decade-Long Copyright Battle Reaches Supreme Court : NPR I don’t want Oracle to win on the basis of software copyrights, but I do want Google to lose, and get hit with an astronomical penalty. I also … Continue reading →

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Something Refreshing for a Change

Posted on February 12, 2020 by David K.

Can I just say how much I appreciate good software, for a change? Jenkins is cool stuff, even if it is built on Java. Also, it’s complicated to get a project building, but, then, getting a project deploying automatically is … Continue reading →

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How 4 Chinese Hackers Allegedly Took Down Equifax | WIRED

Posted on February 11, 2020 by David K.

While the operation had a certain degree of complexity, Equifax itself made their job much easier than it should have. It should have patched that initial Apache Struts vulnerability, for starters. And an FTC complaint from last summer also found … Continue reading →

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IMHO: The Mythical Fullstack Engineer – Stack Overflow Blog

Posted on October 17, 2019 by David K.

It’s my experience that the above MVFE is pretty uncommon. The profile describes a person with skills requiring thousands of hours to master, but who doesn’t take part in the holistic decision making process. By nature, the value of a … Continue reading →

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