A Developers Journal

Today I learnt: Angular routing

I am working in an Angular project for an executive dashboard that follows the url convention /{model}/{modelId}. For a user story, I had to import a model from a file and redirect to the newly created model updating the current url. To update

Insight

On testing and Rust

I've never been a big fan of Test Driven Development (TDD), specially the part where you define the tests that will validate your code before writing the code. However, I've found extremely useful to run tests in isolation immediately after writing a piece of

Running

On running

I started to run at the age of 16 circa 2003, mostly because it was the only sport where I didn't suck and I could do it by myself. At the beginning I ran during sport classes and occasionally on Saturdays in my native

Insight

On timing

I started my PhD back in 2011 in Information Systems and Communications, immediately after I received my master degree in computer science. By 2015 I started working full time as software developer and the available time that I could dedicate to the pursuit of

Story

The right tool

Last weekend I changed a shower head in my house. Easy peasy. Unfortunately, the shower arm was badly rotten and also needed to be changed, I tried to remove it with my bare hands and couldn't. It was surrounded with tile glue so I

Insight

Start all over again

My first programming language for the web was PHP, more than 10 years ago. I was a freshly graduated mechanical engineer with several books in my room and starting a master degree in computer science. The only logical conclusion was to build a small

TIL

Today I learnt: application servers

Today I learnt that application servers such as WildFly, Tomcat, etc, will use its own database connection pool when configuring a data source. That explained why my connection pool configured in Spring wasn't working, it was being overriding and therefore my connections weren't being

TIL

Today I learnt: CentOS

I need a virtual machine in my laptop with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to perform a database down drill, but RHEL is not free and I don't have the budget to buy a license just for a drill. Fortunately, I learnt a couple