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Using application.yml as the interface to Docker

Sep 9, 2018

Modern containerised 12 factor applications are expected to derive their configuration from environment variables. While Spring Boot does import some of its properties from environment variables, it doesn’t for most of its common properties.

Spring as a Java container abstraction - switching to Undertow

Aug 8, 2018

Spring MVC abstracts the Java servlet container implementation away from you almost completely, this allows you to migrate from Tomcat quite easily.

DRY principle with docker-compose

Aug 8, 2018

An oft-repeated and sensible principle in software engineering is DRY, or “don’t repeat yourself”. Here we will apply this principle to Docker compose files.

Building Docker images with Maven

Aug 8, 2018

To package our application, we’re going to be using Docker. The natural build language for Docker images are Dockerfiles, so we will use Spotify’s Dockerfile Maven plugin.

Spring Boot 2.0 primer

Aug 8, 2018

Spring Boot is a very popular Java framework for creating standalone, production ready web applications. In this series of blog posts, we are going to walk through using Spring Boot 2.0 to build and deploy a simple CRUD REST application.

Multiple JVM versions on macOS

Jan 1, 2018

It’s pretty common when doing Java development to need mutiple versions installed alongside each other. With Brew and Jenv, switching Java versions between projects becomes easy.

Modernising with Bootstrap, HTML5 and CSS3

Nov 11, 2017

I was recently given the task of modernising a simple internal site’s front-end. It was built using plain hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with all layouts being done using HTML tables.

Keeping the heating on at Center Parcs

Apr 4, 2017

If you’ve ever stayed at Center Parcs, you’ll probably have noticed that the heating is configured to drop down to 14 °C every few hours.

C++ Glib/GObject wrappers

Apr 4, 2017

One part of doing C++ the right way is using automatic variables for everything you possibly can. However at some point in your C++ endeavours, you’re likely to be using a C API of some sort, with explicit method calls to manage lifecycles, which can make this more difficult. My work at Canonical has involved talking to lots of these sorts of APIs, many of them based on GNOME’s Glib. To make life easier, I have created a set of easy to use wrappers to manage the lifecycle Glib and GObject objects.

Testing Qt-based DBus services

Apr 4, 2017

DBus is the most common RPC middleware used in Linux desktop shell development. Unfortunately it does not provide much support for testing services using it. I created libqtdbustest and libqtdbusmock to fill this gap, for Qt/C++ based services, at least.

Multiple JVM versions on macOS

Pete Woods

Using application.yml as the interface to Docker

Spring as a Java container abstraction - switching to Undertow

DRY principle with docker-compose

Building Docker images with Maven

Spring Boot 2.0 primer

Multiple JVM versions on macOS

Modernising with Bootstrap, HTML5 and CSS3

Keeping the heating on at Center Parcs

C++ Glib/GObject wrappers

Testing Qt-based DBus services