March 2017 - DEVelopments

Week #4 – Big problems

29 March 2017March 30, 2017Łukasz MonkiewiczCommutee, Get Noticed! 2017Neo4jLeave a comment

It is the fourth week of work on Commutee project. Well, technically it is the fifth week, but I didn’t have much time for work on this project, so let’s pretend that it is week number four 😉 I have started thinking about the neo4j data model for all this public transport data that I have

Neo4j? What is it?

19 March 2017March 20, 2017Łukasz MonkiewiczGet Noticed! 2017, programmingCypher, Docker, Neo4j, NoSQL2 Comments

What is Neo4j? Well, it is a database, but a different type of database, it is a graph database to be exact! And that is a really cool thing. But what is this "graph database"? Let’s dig into it.

Week #3 – Parsed!

17 March 2017March 17, 2017Łukasz MonkiewiczCommutee, Get Noticed! 2017Commutee, JavaLeave a comment

Another week came to pass and I have managed to do some work on my project. Unfortunately I didn’t work on it as much as I would like to, but nonetheless, I have finished writing the parser for timetables and routes data. And that counts as a success.

Fun with RxJava 2 and Retrofit

12 March 2017March 12, 2017Łukasz MonkiewiczGet Noticed! 2017Java, Retrofit, RxJava2 Comments

RxJava and Retrofit. Two really good java libraries that I recently started playing with. RxJava is a java implementation of Reactive Streams standard. It is a specification of API for processing asynchronous processing of streams. RxJava, now in version 2, is a pretty mature implementation of standard and offers a wide array of tools for use with

Week #2 – TDD and first refactorings

9 March 2017March 9, 2017Łukasz MonkiewiczCommutee, Get Noticed! 2017AssertJ, Commutee, Java, JUnit, Refactoring, TDDLeave a comment

It’s one week into a competition and I already have a delay 🙁 I have planned to have the parsing of timetables done by now, but unfortunately I didn’t manage to get as much free time for this as I would like. Also, I had to make some refactorings, as my initial design had flaws.

Documenting Spring Boot REST services

5 March 2017March 5, 2017Łukasz MonkiewiczGet Noticed! 2017documentation, Java, Rest, spring, spring-boot, swagger3 Comments

Documentation is important, everybody knows this, especially when you are the one who needs to use some third party service or library. Without good documentation it’s often a living hell, it’s like walking through a minefield. You carefully take step after step, praying that things won’t blow up. That’s why you HAVE to create documentation,

Week #1 – Let’s start coding

1 March 2017March 1, 2017Łukasz MonkiewiczCommutee, Get Noticed! 2017CI, Java, maven, spring, spring-boot, TravisCILeave a comment

It’s the first of march and this means, that Get Noticed! 2017 competition has officially begun! That also means that now there are only 3 months left to finish Commutee. I’m really curious of what will I achieve in this short time. There is a lot of work to be done. So, let’s get down

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by Łukasz Monkiewicz

Month: March 2017