If you have been swayed away from Java since web frameworks like Django, Rails, Sinatra, and Flask started popping up to fulfil your Restful…

For this example, we will be using a simple table with a list of beer names.  Our goal is to export the contents of this table into an Excel…

For this example, we will be using a simple table with a list of beer names.  Our goal is to export the contents of this table into an Excel…

There are times in Microsoft Excel or Access when you may require user input regarding the location of a file.  For example, you may need to…

This morning I came across a task which required me to count all instances of a particular element within multiple XML files in a directory…

While build tools like Maven and Gradle are the dominant choices for many Java developers today, I would argue that sometimes the best…

As the proud father of two incredible girls, I’ve been anxiously waiting for the right time to introduce them to programming.  Today was…

As a disclaimer, this feature utilizes the experimental Ghost public API.  The public API allows access to your blog’s public data, such as…

Requirements In order to follow along with this post, you will need: .Net Core SDK (version 3.1.0 used here, but example should work for any…

All About Assigning Function Definitions To Variables While languages such as Python support using functions as a type, Java must work…

Although I found many examples of this online, none of them were complete enough to “just work” for me with Weblogic.  The snippet below is…

The example below returns not only the results as JSON, but also conveniently includes the database table’s column names in the result.  The…

This should work on any remote server with ssh enabled.  I specifically use it on my Synology NAS (with GIT application installed).…

1. Install (Ubuntu 16.04) For other distributions/OSes: Official Installation Instructions 2. Download Image List Installed Images 3. Create…

Docker allows communications between containers, provided the container’s port is exposed.  The example below creates an NGINX container…

1. Create Flask File ./apy.py 2. Create pip requirements.txt File ./requirements.txt 3. Create Dockerfile ./Dockerfile 4. Create Image…

By default, Docker requires sudo privileges to run.  In order to execute commands without prepending “sudo” every time, simply run the two…

Without a doubt, my favorite feature of Ruby on Rails is scaffolding.  With a single command, one can create the controller, model, and…

Use With Caution!  The following command does the following (in order): Stop all containers Delete all containers Delete all images Delete…

I have recently been working on a Flask application, and needed a systematic way to convert the snake case (underscored) column names being…

Since the Docker Wordpress image does not contain its own copy of MySQL, the setup requires a few more steps than most other containers…

It was not too long ago when anyone wanting SSL/TLS for their domain would need to pay a cert authority (CA) for something which today we…

If you have not yet tried Visual Studio Code, I highly recommend that you do.  This lightweight editor created by Microsoft is quickly…

This post is a very simple example of reading and writing to Excel using Kotlin.  Thanks to its Java interoperability, we can utilize the…

I’ve been recently experimenting with Kotlin, and I am absolutely hooked.  Its concise syntax and fix of most Java “annoyances” makes it the…

One of my favorite features of Maven is being able to utilize archetypes to provide me with a starting point for my projects.  As most…

After a fresh install of Rails using Gem recently, I was surprised to see the following message: After rebooting just to make sure, the…

initialize some required globals: Open Git Bash: Will create keys in ~/.ssh: Open id_rsa.pub (public key) and paste contents into https…