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Create a Spring Boot Starter Library

30/08/202030/08/2020Java, Languages, Spring, Spring Bootjava, springboot, springframework

Introduction Often when using Spring Boot it is convenient to put a common piece of functionality within a shared library. That library can then be used in actual applications and any Spring Beans defined within

Apache Ignite Integration with Spring Boot

22/08/202022/08/2020Java, Languages, Spring, Spring BootApache, Ignite, java, spring, springboot, springframework

Overview Apache Ignite is an open source distributed database, in memory data store and compute platform. In this post we will be looking at how we can configure Apache Ignite within a Spring Boot component

Creating a Spring Boot Project with Spring Initializr

09/08/202011/08/2020Spring, Spring Bootgradle, java, kotlin, maven, spring, springboot

Overview A common use case for Spring Boot is to create small independent (micro)services. Having the ability to do this easily makes getting an application up and running more quickly more accessible. Spring Initialzr is

Feeding Data to FlightAware, FlightRadar24 & ADSBExchange (and get free premium accounts)

19/07/202022/03/2022Aviation, Linux, Raspberry PIadsb, adsbexchange, aviation, flightaware, flightradar24, raspberrypi

Overview If you have an interest in aviation then you can get access to free premium accounts from both FlightAware & FlightRadar24 if you provide data into their networks. FlightAware will provide you with an

Installing Ansible AWX on Windows Using WSL 2 & Docker Desktop

08/06/202026/09/2021DevSecOps, Linux, Migrating from Mac to Windows, Windowsansible, devops, docker, linux, windows

NOTE: This document now applies to versions 17 or less of AWX. The process has changed for 18+ Overview Ansible is an IT Automation tool. I like it because of the power it offers, but

Installing Ansible on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) using Ubuntu

06/06/202007/06/2020Linux, Migrating from Mac to Windows, Windowsansible, linux, python, windows, WSL

First of all you will need to have Ubuntu installed under WSL. If you haven’t already done that, then I suggest you check out my post on Installing Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL You will then

Installing Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

06/06/202006/06/2020Linux, Migrating from Mac to Windows, Windowslinux, windows, WSL

Introduction There are often commands I miss from Linux on the command line while using Windows (10). Under these circumstances I don’t really want to install a full virtual machine as that would mean I

Scalable Desktop for Ubuntu on Windows 10 Hyper-V

13/04/202006/06/2020Linux, Migrating from Mac to Windows, Windowshyperv, ubuntu, vnc, windows

I have been a Mac guy for a long time now, however I was starting to find the relative hardware costs were getting higher and was able to find equivalent hardware much cheaper for a

Oracle VirtualBox on Ubuntu

28/12/201928/12/2019Linuxlinux, ubuntu, virtualbox

Recently I purchased a Dell XPS 13. Rather than use the provided Windows 10 I decided to wipe it and install Linux on it. My preferred Linux favour for the desktop is currently Linux Mint.