Welcome to my encyclopedia of shitty code!
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Spring MVC: Handling Joda Data Types as JSON
PROBLEM Let’s assume we have the following bean that contains Joda’s LocalDate and LocalDateTime objects:- This simple Spring MVC rest controller creates this bean and returns the JSON data back to the client:- By default, the generated JSON looks like this:- How do we nicely format these values and still retain the correct data types… Read More…
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When you die…
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live. – Stuart Scott Read More…
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Your attitude…
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. – Zig Ziglar Read More…
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Karma: Managing Plugin Versions in package.json
PROBLEM Let’s assume our package.json looks like this:- What we want to do is to update all the plugin versions defined in this file. SOLUTION After trying out several solutions, it appears that using npm-check-updates is a better and cleaner solution for discovering newer versions of these plugins. First, we need to install npm-check-updates globally.… Read More…
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Why I Am Switching to Karma
OVERVIEW JavaScript testing is hard. Most of the time, it is just plain difficult to set up the test harness just to run Javascript tests. CURRENT STATE Most of my team’s existing production web applications do not use any MV* frameworks. A few newer projects use Backbone/Marionette. We rely on the following stack:- We choose… Read More…
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Jenkins: Getting Karma Generated Test Results to Appear in Maven Project Job
PROBLEM Jenkins, for some reason, does not pick up Karma generated JUnit test reports even though they are created in the right directory… and apparently, it is a known problem. While Freestyle project job allows us to manually publish these JUnit reports, my intention is to rely on Maven project job to do the same… Read More…
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IntelliJ : Karma Integration
Overview Although we can run karma start karma.conf.js on the command line to start Karma test runner, JetBrains provides a great Karma-IntelliJ integration to run and display the JavaScript test results within IntelliJ. Prerequisites Install Karma Plugin in IntelliJ The first step is to install the Karma plugin created by JetBrains. Create Karma “Run” Configuration… Read More…
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Don’t Fear Failure…
Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. – Bruce Lee Read More…
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Karma: Getting Started
Overview This tutorial walks through the steps need to configure Karma to work with a Maven web project. It will also be used as a base for my future Karma related posts. Install Node.js First, download Node.js from http://nodejs.org/download/ and install it. Once installed, we should be able to invoke npm command from the command… Read More…
About Author
This author has 20+ years of experience in software engineering and cloud engineering. In an industry where knowledge becomes obsolete in the next three months, he learns anything that crosses his path indiscriminately. He floats from one technology to another like a moth and stings the problem sets like a mosquito. This author codes Java while drinking Espresso and writes Spock specifications while listening to Groovy beats. He masters Google Cloud Platform just like how he masters the art of predicting the movement of dark clouds over his backyard, where 60% of the time, he is right every time.
This author suffers from the Dunning-Kruger effect, where he overestimates his competence and underestimates his ignorance. Technology buzzwords never faze him, for he does not know enough to be afraid of in the first place. GCP, GCS, GCR, GKE, GWT… everything sounds the same to him. He never fears acronyms, synonyms, or antonyms, for he has ChatGPT in his back pocket. This author is a jack of all trades but a master of none. He writes like he knows all the answers, yet he googles for better solutions from elsewhere. He fakes it until he makes it; if he doesn’t, that’s okay because he has the attention span of a squirrel. The blog posts are his buried walnuts, in case he needs them one day.
In conclusion, this author is full of something. He apologizes in advance if you are trying to solve your company’s real problems with his shitty solutions. There, he has successfully written paragraphs of nonsense because every professional blogging website needs a section about the author, with a too-cool-to-smile portrait staring sideways into the abyss.