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Updates
First, sorry about the banner image. I know it sucks, but I am not an illustrator 🙂 I just wanted to take a moment to post an update since I haven’t posted in a...
Two year Anniversary
It’s hard to believe it’s been two years already! This past year started off well but tapered off fairly quickly. My goal was to do a video and blog post once every two weeks....
Building a Start Page Using Angular
Recently, I stumbled upon a sub-Reddit called /r/startpages. The concept of having a “start page” isn’t new, but for some reason it struck me as something that I’d like to do and I don’t...
Schema Migration with Flyway – JavaEE Series 2 Part 3
If you’re building any sort of JavaEE application, you’re likely using a database of some sort. As time goes on, your database schema will evolve to meet your application’s needs. There are many ways...
Adding Swagger to a JavaEE Project – JavaEE Series 2 Part 2
In this article, we’ll add Swagger to our JavaEE project. If you aren’t already familiar with Swagger, it’s an OpenAPI implementation that allows us to document our APIs. We do this using annotations on...
Adding MySQL’s JDBC Driver To Our WAR File for Wildfly – JavaEE Series 2 Part 1
A while ago, I created a series of articles that created a simple “todo” JavaEE service. I’d like to revisit and expand upon that. To kick things off, we’re going to follow a previous...
Express + TypeScript + Mongo – Part 4 – Swagger
If you’re building a fairly large API you’re going to want to document it so the consumers know what to expect. There are several ways to do this. The most common way is to...
Express + TypeScript + Mongo – Part 3 – Mongoose
In the previous articles of this series, we rebuilt the original “ToDo server” application in TypeScript and used Mongo instead of MySQL. In this article, we’ll explore changing the server a bit more by...
Fixing TypeScript Intellisense in VSC
I recently had an issue with my installation of Visual Studio Code where Intellisense wasn’t working properly for my TypeScript projects. All of the suggestions I found on StackOverflow or random blogs pointed to...
Express + Typescript + Mongo – Part 2 – Connecting to Mongo
In the previous article, we got our Express project setup and our endpoints defined. In this article, we’ll connect it to an existing Mongo server. The first thing you’ll need to do is install...