Run Maven Project from CLI

This is just a quick not on how to run a maven project from the CLI – command line interface. cd into the root directory of the project. Run mvn compile. Then, to execute a class with a main method (usually the Application class) execute the following Maven command: mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=[your class here] For […]

Ubuntu System Services

This post about systemd has been published from a draft, so it’s not been proofed for publication. I find it useful, so I would like it readily available on-line. If you find anything wrong with it, please Ubuntu, like many GNU/Linux distributions, uses systemd. systemd is a system used by the OS tor manage process, […]

Maven: Setting Compiler Version

I recently started a new JavaFX project. I decided to use Maven because the tool is great for building Java projects in a standard way that conforms with best practices. Unfortunately, I’m not the most well versed in the tool. I’ve used it a few times, and “it just worked”. This evening I got the […]

Developing with Docker

Working on Docker (https://www.flickr.com/photos/134416355@N07/31518965950) In my last post about Docker, I went over container theory and some basic Docker commands. In this post, I will cover using Docker in an application development workflow. We’ll look at developing a Python/Flask API in a container using Docker.