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New IntelliJ Tricks I Learnt Today

August 23, 2024January 7, 2015 Trisha Gee

Day three of my brand new job – woohoo! One of my first tasks is checking the documentation of IntelliJ, since I’m already a “Power User”, to see if there’s stuff missing that someone like me might want to see. Firstly, a confession – I’m not sure I’ve actually read the IntelliJ documentation before. I … Read more

Using Groovy to import XML into MongoDB

December 12, 2020October 7, 2014 Trisha Gee

This year I’ve been demonstrating how easy it is to create modern web apps using AngularJS, Java and MongoDB. I also use Groovy during this demo to do the sorts of things Groovy is really good at – writing descriptive tests, and creating scripts. Due to the time pressures in the demo, I never really … Read more

Getting Started with MongoDB and Java

November 24, 2020August 14, 2014 Trisha Gee

We've been missing an introduction to using MongoDB from Java for a little while now - there's plenty of information in the documentation, but we were lacking a step-by-step guide to getting started as a Java developer.

I sought to rectify this with a couple of blog posts for the MongoDB official blog: the first, an introduction to using MongoDB from Java, including a non-comprehensive list of some of the libraries you can use; the second, an introductory guide to simple CRUD operations using the Java driver:

Readable, Succinct, or Just Plain Short?

December 8, 2020July 2, 2014 Trisha Gee

Which is more readable?

releaseVersion = version.substring(0, version.indexOf('-SNAPSHOT'))

releaseVersion = version[0..-10]

Converting Blogger to Markdown

December 14, 2020March 20, 2014 Trisha Gee

I’ve been using Blogger happily for three years or so, since I migrated the blog from LiveJournal and decided to actually invest some time writing. I’m happy with it because I just type stuff into Blogger and It Just Works. I’m happy because I can use my Google credentials to sign in. I’m happy because … Read more

In my day…

December 12, 2020March 3, 2014 Trisha Gee

Web development has changed a lot. I was aware that there have been many changes in the last few years, and I’ve seen maturity come to web platforms in the form of standardisation and common reusable libraries and frameworks – and I don’t mean reusable in the way we used to “reuse” stuff by nicking … Read more

Spock: Data Driven Testing

December 14, 2020December 20, 2013 Trisha Gee

In the last two articles on Spock I've covered mocking and stubbing. And I was pretty sold on Spock just based on that. But for a database driver, there's a killer feature: Data Driven Testing.

Getting started with the MongoDB Java Driver Tutorial

December 14, 2020October 24, 2013 Trisha Gee

Brief guide to running the MongoDB tutorial from QCon London and JAX London.

The New 3.0 Java Driver for MongoDB

December 14, 2020September 9, 2013 Trisha Gee

Information related to the currently-ongoing effort to redesign the Java driver for MongoDB.

How to get started with the new MongoDB Java Driver

December 14, 2020August 31, 2013 Trisha Gee

The second in my short series of blogs about the new Java driver is now available for your perusal. In it, there's some guidance on how to get started using the new driver, whether you want to use the new (unfinished) API, the existing "classic" API, or a blend of both.