I wrote a piece about base project setup to make Angular and Spring Boot play nice together. This piece builds upon that, but can also be read in isolation (except for the section where I make changes to the previous post. The previous post showed how to do basic project setup and to configure Angular […]
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Plan to Fail
I used to work at a company, that was implementing a new strategy of “first time right.” If you plan to do everything right, there may be no margin for failure, and every time you get surprised by failure, you have to go into disaster recovery mode. […]
Angular, Spring Boot, Maven, and all that Jazz
Angular is the “new” hotness is web-development, and it is easy to see why: web-developers (lol) are idiots. Simultaneously, Spring Boot is the way to develop cloud-native enterprise-ready applications in a Java ecosystem. It just seems nobody on the internet has thought to bring these two great tastes together yet. Sure, there’s (as always) a […]
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Frozen 2 Script Doctor
Everybody knows that Frozen 2 tanked in the cinema; I should know, I only watched it twice. Maybe that’s what the two refers t(w)o? Anyway, I fixed it! Setting: post-apocalyptic. We’re basically gonna nick be inspired by this Uzbek cartoon rendition of Ray Bradbury’s There Will Come Soft Rains: Anna, a small orphan boy flicks […]
Importance, Urgency, TV Shows, and Why Eisenhower is Wrong
So, here’s a super pretentious post. I believe most people will be familiar with Eisenhower’s matrix for prioritization; it partitions tasks into the urgent/not urgent ones, and into the important/not important ones: The idea is that tasks that are not important should be delegated or eliminated and the important tasks should be done immediately or […]
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Watching P̵a̵i̵n̵t̵ ̵D̵r̵y̵ Applications Crash
I’m really passionate about applications crashing! JK, I mostly don’t care and find it super dull. But it is a thing that matters to customers (well, mostly that they don’t but same difference). I had my first run-in with application monitoring in 2000 when I spent my nights watching cable TV and browsing the entire […]
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