Ever had trouble writing an .img file to an SD card for your Raspberry Pi? Here’s how to do it without installing any other programs. Download Your Image Firstly, you need to download the latest image that you want to Read more…
How to reduce commits using Git CLI So you’re working on a bugfix locally and you commit your changes. But then you miss a line, and have to create another commit. Then you realise that you’ve badly formatted your code, Read more…
So you want to improve as a Software Engineer? There are plenty of blogs and tutorials online, but they often lack the depth of understanding that you can get from a real book. So here is a rundown of the Read more…
So you’ve landed yourself a great gig as a developer, and have a specific thing you’re asked to work on. Fantastic. However, don’t let that stop you from learning and exploring. In fact, working on one project for so long Read more…
*Assuming basic knowledge of AWS and Java While working on Shout, I went looking for a quickstart guide to installing MongoDB on AWS, but all I found was a 27 page document from Amazon talking about private clouds, elastic blocks and other Read more…
Working at a big retail client in the UK, we had a problem where had some very sensitive data in S3 buckets, and we needed to move that data into SnowFlake without a person having access, and being able to Read more…
I built a function in a spring-boot app that consisted of a controller, service layer and repository. I wanted to ensure that when a user sent two values to the controller, it would throw an error back to the user, Read more…
A short post on a bug that really gave me a headache recently. I’d started coding up a back end service using my go-to framework of Spring Boot, with a few basic controllers, repositories and services as per convention. My Read more…
I once worked at a large establishment, populated by hundreds of developers. There were many times when I heard “Oh that guy John is an amazing programmer, he can write whole applications in half a day”. Or “Josie is fantastic, Read more…
Browser Cache Browsers were designed with 14k modems in mind, and therefore cache almost anything they can find on a web page. In principle this is a good idea, it prevents unnecessary web requests to servers. However, in 2019 we Read more…
