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
