Set the culture for all threads in C# before .NET 4.5 In the simplest form, to change the culture of .NET applications, we can just set the current thread Culture/UICulture during the initialization phase. But, problems can occur if the application is multi-threaded. Take a look at the example bellow. class Program { static void… Continue reading
Email testing for developers with Mailtrap
Email testing for developers can be annoying Do you remember the last time you worked on a project that had email integration? Do you remember when you spammed all your colleagues because you had to test the email capabilities of your application? Email testing for developers, while not a difficult task, can be very annoying… Continue reading
Implement a custom comparison function for select in Angular 4 using [compareWith]
The Problem There are times when you want to bind a select to a custom object. You use some property of the object for display and you store the entire thing in a field. But, when you receive data from the server, you stumble across a problem. The select does not seem to display correctly…. Continue reading
Install a Spring Boot Application as a Windows Service
Spring Boot applications are versatile by nature and provide a lot of deployment possibilities. In this post, I am going to show you how to install a Spring Boot application as a Windows service. It is a fairly simple process that should take a couple of minutes 😉 1. Sample Application For this demo, I… Continue reading
Run Linux Desktop Applications on Windows 10 using Bash
If you’re a developer working with both Linux and Windows, you can use Bash shell on Windows 10 to run Linux commands. I use it all the time for Git or Python. But did you know that Bash shell on Windows can run native Linux desktop applications like Gedit, Kdiff3 or even Xfce4?. As strange… Continue reading
Initialize a Relational Database in Spring Boot Using Java or SQL
Initializing a database means to put it in a state that allows an application to work as expected. Think about it for a second. When you deliver a product to your client, do you ship it with an empty database and let them populate it or create the schema? I sure hope not 🙂 The… Continue reading
How to use the new editor based REST client in IntelliJ
A brand new feature has been introduced with IntelliJ 2017.3, the editor based REST client. This editor allows you to define and execute HTTP requests. You can save them in a file and reuse them whenever you want to test the back-end of your application. I think this is pretty cool from a productivity point… Continue reading
Create Spring Boot Applications using Kotlin in 10 Minutes
Kotlin has been around for a couple of years now. Recently it has become the default language for writing Android applications. So, I think it makes sense to see whether we can use Kotlin to write Spring-enabled applications. In this post, I will guide you in creating a standard Spring Boot application using this exciting… Continue reading
Romanian Coder 2018 Review
It’s the 31st of December, 17:18 and I am thinking about all the cool stuff that happened this year. About all of the things that I learned, about the cool books that I read, about my courses and blog posts. And I think it was a great year. 😀 I will try to sum it… Continue reading
Book Review: Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
The primary focus of architecture is to to support the life cycle of the system. Good architecture makes the system easy to understand, develop, maintain and deploy. The ultimate goal is to minimize cost and maximise developer productivity. – Robert C. Martin Who should read this book? Software architects and developers are the ones who… Continue reading