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My Android Nokia 6.1 Plus will be 2 years old come December (2020). This Nokia has served me well since then. Didn’t really plan on getting this one at all. It was kind of a spur-of-the-moment purchase decision when my 2 other Android smartphones – a Samsung Galaxy Note 1st gen and a Google LG…
One of those people who is guilty of frequently relying on online 3rd party JSON formatting tools so messily formatted JSON strings or one-liners can be saner to read. If you are like me who deal with JSON almost every day for development, reading log messages, error tracing, etc., readability for JSON is a must….
How many countless times must I have found myself with a piece of JSON string that is formatted in a way that makes it very hard for me to read. Perhaps you’ve also experienced this several times too? As a back-end developer, having to deal with a lot of JSON is unavoidable. Heck, I deal…
Mochi is now 7 months old today. I brought her home perhaps when she was around 2 and 1/2 months. At that time lock-down measures because of COVID19 were already being eased. I thought then that it would be a good time to bring home a pup. Staying at home by myself for 3 months…
The other day I was trying to assign a container of, let’s say, numbers distributed across 20 groups, to a container with a smaller size that can only hold up to 6 groups. The bigger group has values from 0 to 19. It also means that group 0 will always have zero number value, 1…
The other day, I was working on a huge JSON object that had a number of collections in it. The entire object had to be saved into a relational database, which means I was mapping out the raw JSON data to its logical representation as database tables. Though the object wasn’t that complicated, it did…
Using Repository interfaces, one can develop applications with an underlying database rapidly in Spring Boot. The Spring Data JPA handles the abstraction of the persistence layer quite well. Many times you probably won’t need anything else beyond what it has to offer. A lot can already be done with the exposed methods for data access…
As a back-end developer, consuming JSON objects is pretty much very common. I think it is second only to publishing data in JSON format, the other end of what is usually a 2-way street. We may have a REST API endpoint that accepts orders for an online food delivery service that takes in JSON formatted…
Going to skip right away to the juicy stuff as much as I can. I won’t discuss about what OpenShift is or what the Secrets feature does. This is only about my experience the first time I dealt with Secrets and how I used it for a Spring Boot Kafka consumer/client application. The problem I…
She’s grown. Not a lot. But still. Her fur has grown thicker. Especially around the neck areas and behind/around the ears. Her back used to be half white and half brown fur. The latter being at the lower portion. Now that brownish hair has creeped upwards almost entirely covering her back. Tail has grown longer…