Spring Boot – The Right Boot For You!

Matt McCandless Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Tutorial 1 Comment

Need a little spring in your step? Tired of all those heavy web servers and deploying WAR files? Well you’re in luck.

Spring Boot takes an opinionated view of building production-ready Spring applications. Spring Boot favors convention over configuration and is designed to get you up and running as quickly as possible.

The aim of this blog is just to get you familiar with how to get Spring Boot going on your machine. It is going to be fairly straightforward and vanilla. The goal is to get you started…

How Can AutoMapper Help You?

Justin Armstrong .NET, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools 2 Comments

There are many times that when developing when you need to map an object to another object. When these situations occur, AutoMapper is the answer. It can be used for a one-to-one mapping out-of-the-box or you can easily customize the mappings to meet your needs. This also helps with only having one place to make changes when objects change or grow and more mappings are needed.

This allows just having one place to translate the objects instead of possibly many places scattered throughout the code. There will only be one place that needs to be updated when or if the objects get updated in the future. AutoMapper can also be used to combine fields such as First and Last names from one object into a Full name field in the mapped object.

In this blog, I talk about how to get started with AutoMapper for one-to-one, dynamic mapping. I’ll show an example of using AutoMapper with a basic mapping and to create a custom mapping….

Learning Event Scheduled: Angular 2 In Action

Lauren Fournier Bogner Angular, Articles, Community, Company News, Educational Event, JavaScript Leave a Comment

We are excited to announce the next free public Keyhole Software educational event: Angular 2 In Action! This Breakfast Boost event is a live-coding learning opportunity open to the public. The presentation is geared to benefit software developers who are implementing or interested in AngularJS.

This free presentation will be held at the Keyhole Software office in Leawood, Kansas on Thursday, February 16, 2017 from 8-10 a.m. Space is limited. To get more information and reserve your free tickets…

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The Remote Development Experience

Ron Moddesette Articles, Consulting 2 Comments

Distributed development teams are not unusual in this day and age, and working remotely can be rewarding and challenging. Luckily there are many ways to effectively contribute your skills and experience to a successful project. In this post, I will examine what it takes to effectively contribute to a team when working off-site, with a particular focus on some tools and strategies that can help…

Setting Up Angular 2 MockBackend

Todd Leininger Angular, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, Tutorial 10 Comments

Todd was working on a client project developing one of the company’s first Angular 2 applications when he found that he needed access to the REST services before they were ready. He needed a good way to mock them up, so he set up a mock service for an Angular 2 application using MockBackend.

In this article Todd shows a step-by-step example of setting up a mock of RESTful web service APIs for an Angular 2 application using Angular’s MockBackend. With this method, he could then use that mock to work on the application before the real APIs were ready.