by Greg Turnquist | Jun 30, 2014 | debug, learning spring boot, spring boot
Last Friday, I submitted the 1st draft for Chapter 2: Quick Start with Java inside Learning Spring Boot. In that one, I walk through the detailed steps of crafting an app that scans for open issues against multiple GitHub repos using several Spring projects. With that...
by Greg Turnquist | Jun 30, 2014 | alps, spring data rest
Greetings Spring Community! We are working on a new feature inside Spring Data REST: meta-data. When you are talking to RESTful backend over the wire, you might not know the details of the resources behind the URIs. This enhancement provides a way to dynamically serve...
by Greg Turnquist | Jun 21, 2014 | asciidoctor, book, learning spring boot, spring boot
Last night, I finished up the last bits of chapter 2’s first draft. I like to knock out a chapter in the rough and then go through it, applying bits of polish. For me, it’s always easier to polish something that already exists. My biggest concern was the...
by Greg Turnquist | Jun 21, 2014 | asciidoctor, book, community, learning spring boot, software
As I continue working on my new book, Learning Spring Boot, I have really noticed the value of communities today compared to when I became a professional software developer back in 1997. Back then, there were news groups and mailing lists, but not the same indexing of...
by Greg Turnquist | Jun 20, 2014 | asciidoc, asciidoctor, book, learning spring boot, spring boot
I just got my last few tweaks into my Asciidoctor Packt backend. It was enough to drop the venerable AsciiDoc and replace it with Asciidoctor. Most notably, I fixed the images so they would be centered, and text would not wrap around. I also centered the [[Layout]]...