Creating Web Integration Tests for Spring Boot REST Controller
I’ve been working on a simple REST API for a CRUD backend application using Spring Boot. Nothing revolutionary, but it’s simply a new way of writing less code that I haven’t tried before.
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This weekend I needed to access some external hard drive folders on a Windows laptop. We follow a united colours approach to our systems at home, which, just like in the real world comes with a big set of advantages and occasional challenges. One of the downsides is the fact that each operating system uses different file systems.
ReadCreating a Municipality Map of Portugal With Raphael.js
Last year I found out about a rule in the Portuguese tax code that allows local councils to give back a small percentage of the taxes to be collected back to their residents. This was seen as a measure to incentivize people to move or stay in poorer regions, which probably suffer from a shortage of jobs and services. This was a common practice in medieval times, with incentives as big as a more lax treatment in possible crimes among them. Of course back then the risk of an Eastern invasion by a Spanish monarch was very much in the day-to-day thinking of our rulers. One can speculate that if in 2018 all the Portuguese people live by the coast is the East still Portugal? I suppose if enough Irish speakers moved there it could be claimed as part of Ireland! But I diverge.
ReadCompound Interest in Your Career: How to Use the Power of the Environment to Accelerate Your Professional Growth
Over the last week I’ve been reading Judith Rich Harris’ The Nurture Assumption, where the author exposes the idea that children are not so much influenced by their parents as they are by their peers. Most examples Harris gives us during the book show that the environment in which children grow up is a lot more powerful in socializing them than their parents. Despite best intentions for getting children to behave in certain ways at home, the world outside and other children are the key to derive their social behaviors which might or might not impact their adult lives.
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