This post follows on from Advent of Code 2023: Day 1 Part 1 – Calibrating Snow Operations where we were busy solving the Advent of Code 2023 Day 1 exercises using Kotlin and TDD. Part 1 is solved, but as soon as you provide the answer, Part 2 becomes available. Mean. The problem is similar, … Read more
I’ve never yet taken part in the Advent of Code, and judging by how much time it took me to solve both parts of Day 1, it’s debatable as to whether I will have completed all challenges by Christmas Eve. But it’s an excuse to test out my rather rudimentary Kotlin skills, and share what … Read more
Whenever I pick up a new programming language, sooner or later I get comfortable enough with it to want to tackle my favourite / most common personal programming need: web scraping. Recently I have been playing with Kotlin quite a lot, and am now at the point where I have written a few simple web … Read more
As part of my post on Kotlin Task Scheduling I had a piece of code that used Kotlin’s timerTask function that I wanted to dive deeper into, but that wasn’t the best place to do so. So, this post is going to cover that off. Here’s the code for reference: And to quickly recap at … Read more
Out of nothing other than sheer curiosity, I was wondering how Kotlin (and by extension, Java) handles scheduling tasks. Let’s say that we have a function that we wish to run every 5 seconds. How can we go about achieving that in Kotlin? That was the question I set out to answer. In this post … Read more
OK, not a true fix today. Not in the sense that I’d like, anyway. The gist of this is that I was trying to follow along with the JetBrains official Introduction to Coroutines and Channels tutorial. I cloned the GitHub repo, and opened in IntelliJ. When the dependencies were downloaded via Gradle, I got the … Read more
All week now I’ve been wanting to have a try with JetBrain’s Compose Multiplatform Desktop. The demos I’ve found looked great. As a heads up though, those demos are all showing OSX as the run target. I am aware that Compose for Desktop can run against Windows, and (interesting to me) Linux. What I was … Read more
This is a post aimed at absolute beginners to Kotlin Spring Boot projects, who maybe have joined an existing team / project that uses this setup, and are unsure how best to set up their local environment using the application.properties resources. Or, to put it another way, I joined a project that is using Spring … Read more
I’m no Spring Boot expert. Far from it. However, in the project I am working on at the moment, there is a Spring Boot API created using Kotlin that I need to support. Part of that challenge is just getting the API up and running. I’ve had a few days of head scratching with this … Read more