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]]...
by Greg Turnquist | Jun 17, 2014 | book, learning spring boot, spring boot
It feels like I have almost reached feature completion with my Packt Publishing backend. It does just about anything I need. In fact, I don’t really think about editing my generating ODT files. (The only thing is potentially moving the [[layout notes]] that...
by Greg Turnquist | Jun 16, 2014 | book, learning spring boot, spring boot, spring mobile
At my old company, I had a manager that was happy to point out when we had “good” problems. He was often citing situations where we had too much work from the customer such that our current staffing levels couldn’t keep up. Instead of anyone being...
by Greg Turnquist | Jun 12, 2014 | asciidoc, github, java, learning spring boot, mobile, spring, spring boot
I just shipped off chapter 1, “Quick Start with Groovy”. Last night, I dug through and updated the code samples along with outputs to Spring Boot 1.1.1.RELEASE, which went out late yesterday. It really is awesome having that effort minimized thanks...
by Greg Turnquist | Jun 9, 2014 | book, learning spring boot, spring boot
Late last week, I wrapped up chapter one, “Quick Start with Groovy”. Whenever I present Spring Boot for the first time to a group, I lead with what Rob Winch snappily tweeted last August: @Controller class ThisWillActuallyRun {...
by Greg Turnquist | May 31, 2014 | asciidoc, book, learning spring boot, spring boot
I’ve made great strides getting things to look nice with my AsciiDoc-to-LibreOffice outputs. But I ran into issues that I couldn’t solve with asciidoc-packt. Text wrapped in **double asterisks** wouldn’t appear with the Key Word [PACKT] styling...