I attended UberConf [https://uberconf.com] in Denver, CO from 7/19 - 7/22. This was my first UberConf, but it will most likely not be my last. The conference itself was well organized, at a beautiful location, and had a ton of excellent content presented by professionals. I attended the following sessions and added notes where I took them. The...
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I like to create this list at the beginning of a new year and have been doing so for a couple [https://www.doyleyoung.net/2013-favorite-github-projects/] years [https://www.doyleyoung.net/2014-favorite-github-projects/]. I find this is the perfect time for me to talk about and filter through my starred GitHub projects. The hope is that others will find something useful and my...
I attended Java One 2014 in San Francisco from September 28 - October 2. This conference is huge and is just a portion of the massive Oracle OpenWorld. I did not attend any sessions on the first day due to some travel issues, but I still made the most of the four remaining days. These are the sessions I attended, a summary...
I have been experimenting with Spring Boot [http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/] the last couple days and I made a very small extension to my first test [https://doyleyoung.net/spring-boot/] of the framework. After reading a getting started guide [https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/] I discovered something else amazing about this project. I added the following class to my test...
A few days ago a friend sent me a link to Spring Boot [http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/]. I have used Spring for a large number of projects over the years and the description of Spring Boot seemed to indicate it could remove a number of my biggest peeves. When I first used Spring I did not like the odd combination of...