louie171 update Check out the language learning plugin here. I’ve being learning Spanish for the last year or so, and as well as attending classes, I’ve been using some of the interactive tools out there that I’ve found useful. I’ve talk about developing my own WordPress quiz plugin with app like / responsive Duolingo like features, … Read more
When looking at how to draw a line at a specific angle on a Canvas Element using Javascript, I couldn’t find anything that was really short and sweet (really I just wanted a copy and paste), I had to investigate the maths abit todo it and understand it, but I won’t go into that here. … Read more
This is a timer for the Raspberry Pi that lights the lights on the JamHat Hobby Board as the timer progresses through its cycle. I use it as a Pomodoro Timer for timing 30 minute intervals. When you click the blue button, that starts the timer (its set to 30 minutes by default, but this … Read more
Introduction In this post I’ll run through a very simple Hello World Microservice example (in Java) that covers the main parts of a web type Micro Service. This example composes of: A REST Web Service A Lookup / Discovery system ( I’ve used Eureka ) A type of API Gateway / Web Server Just to … Read more
This is a very short guide to get a log file setup for a Spring Boot Application. Spring uses Logback as its default logging system, and automatically logs to the console. To setup a log file in the resources folder of your app (where application.properties lives ), create a file called logback.xml (copy / paste … Read more
Just a place for me to store handy bits and pieces. Having not used it for awhile to remind of things, I’ll likely to forget ! How to compile to different versions of Java ( see also https://mkyong.com/maven/maven-error-invalid-target-release-1-11/ ) <plugin> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.8.1</version> <configuration> <source>11</source> <target>11</target> </configuration> </plugin> In the <build> section How to change the … Read more