Implementing An Internal Software Development Project In A Technology Consulting Firm (aka EATING YOUR OWN DOGFOOD!)

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    Part One  “The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity” – Grady Booch At Pinnacle, we are blessed with a population of senior technologists well versed in a multitude of modern development languages, approaches, frameworks, tools, apps and processes. Each of these elements are honed daily in the…

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Spring Boot

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The sessions at this year’s SpringOne conference covered a wide range of topics, everything from developer tooling to testing to reactive programming to core Spring. However, permeating the keynote and nearly all sessions was Spring Boot, Pivotal’s newest addition to the Spring ecosystem. In fact, one session was titled ‘Building Bootiful Web Applications’. Simplifying the…

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Spring + REST + Angular: Creating the API — Part 1 of 2

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This series of posts builds a RESTful service that is consumed by an Angular front end. In this post we will create a RESTful web service built on Spring MVC that uses JSON. The source code for this sample application is on GitHub: https://github.com/thoward333/addrbook Service-Oriented Architecture With the growing popularity of Single Page Application (SPA)…

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