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, later in this post. But first I wanted … Read more
I’m learning Spanish ( or at least trying too !). I developed this plugin based on some Java code I’d written to learn / test / play with learning the days of the week in Spanish. So I could guess you could call it a basic learning the days of the week game plugin ! … 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