Spring

This time I’m working on reinforcing some of the Spring and Spring Boot knowledge I’ve picked up from other videos, while seeing if I can learn a couple of new tricks while at it. I’m watching Spring Framework Essentials through my Safari Books Online membership. It’s presented by Ken Kousen, who often hosts the Groovy Podcast. He has a series of three Groovy videos in Safari Books Online that I wouldn’t mind going through sometime in the future. The video series runtime is 5 hours, 14 minutes and it has a five star rating from 35 reviewers. Not bad, let’s see what it covers. ...

I figured since I am a professional Java programmer that I might as well spent some time getting familiar with some Java technologies that I don’t get to use at work. With this in mind, I purchased Udemy’s “Spring Boot Intro” course for $10 when they had a sale. This course moved a lot quicker than the last course I took from Udemy. It covered basic dependency injection in Spring in probably an hour or less, where the last class focused on dependency injection fundamentals for the entire time. I appreciated the faster pace, as there’s a lot of stuff to cover with Spring Boot. It handles autoconfiguring all the main projects that make up Spring… Spring MVC, Spring Rest, Spring Data, Spring Security, etc. ...