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In this day and age, the DIY (Do It Yourself) movement is strong. The internet has made it super simple to start reading about somthing, but a few things from Amazon, and reach and get going! On one hand, that’s really good. I’ve seen countless businesses launched in this fashion. Many show up on SharkRead More

Greg Turnquist June 13, 2017UncategorizedLeave a comment

I signed a contract!

Something I’ve been working on for seven years now has taken a big turn. I signed a contract with Clean Reads to publish my novel, DARKLIGHT! I’m pretty stoked about this. Of course it will be lots of work. Not even sure if it’s coming out this year or next. Either way, it’s going toRead More

Greg Turnquist June 9, 2017July 12, 2017darklight, writingLeave a comment

The Power of REST – Part 3

Last week in The Power of REST – Part 2, I talked about how investing effort in backward compatibility and having flexible settings, it’s possible to avoid a lot of “API versioning”, something Roy Fielding has decried. In this article, we’ll look more closely at the depth and power of hypermedia. How does the webRead More

Greg Turnquist June 5, 2017June 5, 2017restLeave a comment

Python Testing Cookbook 2nd Edition is coming!

I had totally forgotten about this, but back in February, Packt Publishing approach me about writing a 2nd Edition to Python Testing Cookbook. This is a title I wrote back in 2011, and from which I still get royalty checks! It’s not huge. In fact, it’s more symbolic than anything. I get real a warm fuzzyRead More

Greg Turnquist June 2, 2017UncategorizedLeave a comment

The Power of REST – Part 2

Last week, in The Power of REST – Part 1, I challenged someone’s proposal that their client-side query language could supplant the power of REST. It seemed to attack strawman arguments about REST. In this article, I wanted to delve a little more into what REST does and why it does it. Basis of RESTRead More

Greg Turnquist May 29, 2017June 5, 2017restLeave a comment

Hidden Figures – A Really Cool Movie

Last night, I watched Hidden Figures with my wife and a friend. The story had me pinned to my seat the entire time. This is set back in the days of the Mercury space program. Back then, before the days of digital computers, there were human computers to tally up columns of figures. And inRead More

Greg Turnquist May 26, 2017movieLeave a comment

The Power of REST – Part 1

I was kind of shocked when I saw Yet Another Posted Solution to REST. I sighed and commented, and drew the ire of many. So I figured this might be a good time to gather some thoughts on REST. Love how GraphQL “fixes” the REST by introducing tight coupling and brittleness. And then they duckRead More

Greg Turnquist May 23, 2017July 24, 2017rest, softwareComment (1)

Something Java should never do

I’ve been working on a pull request on Spring HATEOAS for six weeks. That’s right, six weeks. It was a community contribution, and there’s a lot to sift through. Yesterday morning, I was slated to conduct the first review with the project lead. But that wasn’t going to happen, because Java decided to do something JavaRead More

Greg Turnquist May 20, 2017java, mavenLeave a comment

Marketing your book with a launch group

I’ve recently been working on building up a new aspect of marketing – forming a launch group. A launch group is a close knit circle of people that help you get the word out when your book, as they say, hits the stands. I have two fronts in progress: Darklight and Learning Spring Boot 2nd Edition.Read More

Greg Turnquist May 16, 2017July 12, 2017marketing, writingLeave a comment

The myth of polymorphism

I remember reading about polymorphism for the first time. I was in high school, and boy it sure looked cool! Too bad I didn’t realize that the myth of polymorphism was a bunch of poppy cock. You see, polymorphism never seems to be presented in its real state. Instead, we get this goofy, toy-app type presentation.Read More

Greg Turnquist May 1, 2017softwareLeave a comment
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