Captain Danko’s JavaScript Lab — Code Smarter with Tutorials, Frameworks & Dev Insights

In this post, I aim to show how to build a Java RESTful web service or a Java Restful backend that can be used(consumed) by a mobile app or a web site. Unlike my pervious posts where I explain a technical solution, I am going to structure this one differently. In this one I am going to try and tell a developer's story through it. Background Our story picks up from the time Cpt.Danko (Danko) returns to work after being away for 3 months on medical leave. At this point all we know about Danko is that before going on leave he was just a developer, all he did was write code the way he was asked to and he had very little responsibility. On returning to work, he didn't realise that he was no longer just a developer but he was actually "promoted" to a full-stack developer and had heaps(lots) more responsibility with the same old (low) wage. This "promotion" caught him by surprise as after being away for 3 months he expected to have the same level of responsi...

Part of the reason I have not written a new blog post in over a month is because I was on a holiday and that too in a place where I did not have the best internet connection. The other part is that I am trying to make my next technical blog post more captivating than my previous posts. What prompted the initiative to write more engaging posts? During my holiday I met someone new and during the introductory phase I asked her "so what do you do?" to which she replied, "I am a content writer" and I thought, WOAH! Prior to meeting her, I had never met anyone who did that, I mean the concept of "content writer" was new to me. So as usual when presented with a new concept, I try to analyse it and think more about it. I though hmm, if there is a job dedicated to it, then content creation is something that shouldn't be ignored.  I was thinking about all this in the context of my blog and the posts I write i.e. the content I create on my blog. The conc...

2015 was a good year for me and while there was no major conquest overall, I managed to take a number of "small steps" towards building a better tomorrow. In this blog post, I will elaborate on the aforementioned "small steps", which include releasing my first iOS app , the steps I took to ensure my open-source repo reaches a wider audience and a workplace initiative that I am very proud of. Let's start with the release of my app, p.s. there were several things that went wrong in 2015 for me, one such example would be that extremely unprofessional colleague who ended a project that we had spent a year working on via email. However I will keep this post short and only focus on a few things that went right. I released my first iOS app: My Day Todos This was an awesome, as I mentioned in this post , closer to releasing the app, I was getting quite impatient and I was at the point of just wanting to release something and doing so felt very rewarding. I hav...