by Greg Turnquist | Mar 17, 2017 | german
At Pivotal I work on the Spring Data team, and our fearless leader is having us all converge in Berlin in just two weeks. Short of being über awesome, what do you do? Well, considering I’ve studied German off and on since high school, I thought it time to get...
by Greg Turnquist | Mar 14, 2017 | learning spring boot, software, writing
I just sent in the last chapter of Learning Spring Boot 2nd Edition’s 1st draft. And my brain has collapsed. I’ve been working for several months on this 10-chapter book that embraces Spring Boot 2.0 and reactive programming. There are several books out...
by Greg Turnquist | Feb 28, 2017 | javascript, react, software
I’ve talked in the past how I like the approach React leads me to when it comes to building apps. How does such grandiose talk play out when it’s time to add a new, unexpected feature? Let’s check it out. I’ve been building an installation app...
by Greg Turnquist | Feb 23, 2017 | rest, security
In the past couple of weeks, things have really gotten hopping on the Nashville Java community’s #java slack channel. A recent topic topic of interest is how do we take something like REST, which talks about clean URIs and stateless services, and stir in this...
by Greg Turnquist | Feb 13, 2017 | java, learning spring boot
This weekend I sent in the first draft for Chapter 2 – Reactive Web with Spring Boot (of Learning Spring Boot). Even though this is Chapter 2, it’s 80% of the book. That’s because I’m writing Chapters 2, 3, and 4 last, due to the amount they...