Disclaimer: I don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ve done little Win API (Win32) development and I only have a few years of Java development of which maybe 2 or 3 are developing desktop applications with JavaFX (Dashman being my first fully fledged...
Update 2018-05-23: Updated the code to my current version, which fixes a few bugs. When doing usability testing of an alpha version of Dashman, one thing that I was strongly asked was to have the windows remember their sizes when you re-open the application. The need...
Sweet introduction to Hibernate. I can’t believe it doesn’t cover migrations (and I’m sure some people will point out migrations it’s not part of Hibernate, but without it, there’s no good way to maintain a production database). The book...
I’m evaluating re-writing Dashman in Java (instead of Electron). It’s too early to tell, but so far all the experiments and the early re-write are going well and it’s solving the issues I was having with Electron. This short post is about CircleCI....
Searching online for how to set up the credentials to access the database (or any other service) while in development leads to a lot of articles that propose something that works, but it’s wrong: putting your credentials in the application.properties file that...