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...
by Greg Turnquist | Dec 20, 2016 | guidance, learning spring boot
I hope you all have settled down with a hot cup of cocoa. Because it’s time for the most beloved Christmas tale of all. The one where Guidance Saved Christmas with Spring Boot. Guidance the Elf had seen Santa facing new issues. It seemed like managing the list...
by Greg Turnquist | Nov 25, 2016 | learning spring boot
About 1:00am yesterday morning, I sent in the text for Chapter 9, Securing Your App with Spring Boot to my publisher for Learning Spring Boot. I decided to take things to the next level in security by locking down a microservice-based solution. I spent about three...
by Greg Turnquist | Nov 8, 2016 | learning spring boot, Uncategorized
Something I have unique insight into is what the approach to the 2014 1st edition vs. the 2017 soon-to-be 2nd edition. Most “next editions” are written by other authors. Not here. I wrote the first by myself and I’m writing the second one now. The...
by Greg Turnquist | Oct 25, 2016 | learning spring boot, writing
Whew! I just finished hammering out twenty eight pages of manuscript for Learning Spring Boot 2nd Edition. This has been the most exhausting. Probably because it has the most moving parts. Taking the previous chapter’s sample social media app (Spring-a-Gram, my...
by Greg Turnquist | Sep 12, 2016 | learning spring boot
If you didn’t catch it, last week Packt released my Learning Spring Boot Video tutorial. It contains about four hours of in depth, hands-on coding with arguably the most popular Java stack out there – Spring Boot. Starting this week, Learning Spring...
