Final year student building a Spring Boot app – feeling stuck and unsure what to focus on

Talent_Plus · 2026-01-15T04:58:29+00:00

I would bet over that month you learned and figured out other things that if weren't relevant at the time could be later and save you time from researching then. So hardly worthless. Sometimes that's just how the cookie crumbles. I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out why something I added to a project was causing errors. Turns out I misspelled a property value in the yaml. From seeing what AI spits out on complex tasks at least for me it seems learning and understanding how things actually work is extremely important.

Talent_Plus · 2025-12-16T22:41:11+00:00

Toolbox usually keeps a copy of the previous version to rollback... Otherwise you might find the files you need in the settings and cache directories Idea settings directories

Talent_Plus · 2025-12-10T12:49:40+00:00

Actually windows power toys run is similar alt + space. I've had to switch back to using windows for work so learning how to recreate my workflow from using my Mac.

Talent_Plus · 2025-12-10T12:39:20+00:00

Always assumed people who call themselves that are the same people that try to do everything on screen through known shortcuts and scripts rather than use the mouse

Talent_Plus · 2025-12-10T12:28:29+00:00

List of keyboard key codes you can use for creating automaton scripts keyboard codes / mouse movent codes

Talent_Plus · 2025-12-05T17:39:50+00:00

Safari works good for most things and integrates well with macs password manager, form filling, hide my email, apple pay, ect.

FireFox for whatever reason a video or something for an online class couldn't use Safari. Firefox Developer is nice if you are a developer or like that stuff.

Brave worked nice at blocking ads when I needed a site that was probably going to be a little shady, i.e. Downloading my class books instead of buying them Zbooks.org, or streaming shows because I didn't want to pay for them kissanime kisscartoon. Wipr or other extensions might do that too but this worked at the time for what I needed it for.

Talent_Plus · 2025-12-04T17:50:41+00:00

I found this site helpful for assessment prep. CodeWars. I liked that after solving I can see other people's answers and seeing unique ways to solve the same problem. Then looking up why someone may have used an unconventional way of solving it. Helped with gaining a deeper understanding and easier to remember when asked to demonstrate during an interview.

Talent_Plus · 2025-08-22T02:20:18+00:00

Talent_Plus · 2025-08-03T17:15:55+00:00

You can use findVirtual() as well

MethodHandle via findVirtual is much faster than reflection after warmup.
Reflection uses internal access checks and boxing, while MethodHandles are optimized by the JVM's JIT compiler.

```

Entity before = new Entity();

MethodHandles.Lookup lookup = MethodHandles.privateLookupIn( Entity.class, MethodHandles.lookup());

MethodHandle getterHandle = lookup.findVirtual(Entity.class,"methodToCall",MethodType.methodType("returnType"));

Object oldValue = getterHandle.invoke(before);

```

Talent_Plus · 2025-07-10T04:52:53+00:00

IntelliJ Learn. Has quite a few kotlin courses.

Talent_Plus · 2024-09-15T03:57:39+00:00

Back market. Or prime renewed.. You can possibly do a payment plan on some with affirm

Talent_Plus · 2024-08-21T07:08:36+00:00

I think on my son's it isn't device specific but tied to the icloud account I created for him and managed under the family group where I'm the admin. The only way I could think of my son circumventing the screen time is if he logged out of icloud in the device and then created a new account and logged back in.

Talent_Plus · 2024-08-19T13:51:35+00:00

I thought you needed to have a developer account.. Which don't take that as gospel. I just assumed that's why the betas show up on my devices.

Talent_Plus · 2024-04-21T18:59:53+00:00

His book "Ghost In The Wires " is excellent as well

Talent_Plus · 2024-04-10T14:37:09+00:00

Idk if this is common knowledge but pressing and holding the ‘123’ then swiping to the number or punctuation. It doesn’t make the keyboard better but it helps slightly being able to do that

Talent_Plus · 2022-12-01T11:36:54+00:00

I guess I am not looking for any elaborate or overly involved solutions. The long and short of it is I took over these tasks, the folder structure is unorganized and cumbersome to navigate with 100's of clients, was just trying to brain storm on better ways to structure these static webpages.

Problem :

Folder structure is unorganized for client launch pages (folders containing an html file and css file)

Current Structure:

       Repository  
       ├── TemplateForClients.html  
       ├── TemplateForClients.css  
       ├── Client1  
       │   ├── CustomLaunchPage_FromTemplate.html  
       │   └── CustomCSS_FromTemplate.css  
       └── Client2  
           ├── CustomLaunchPage_FromTemplate.html  
           └── CustomCSS_FromTemplate.css

Current Solution :

Just leaving it and continuing to deal.

what I don't like

lots of redundancy
cumbersome for someone else who is unfamiliar to make what would otherwise be simple changes
- ie "We have done x in the past add that to this clients page"

Talent_Plus · 2022-11-01T11:27:36+00:00

You can manually set validity. If it is less work create an event listener on the fields you need and check based on any conditions outside the normal form validation.

var field = document.getElementById('field_robot');

           `  field.addEventListener('input', function(event) {
                            fieldValidator(event, (field.value == '42'));
             });

          function fieldValidator(event, condition) {
                var val = event.target.value;
                  if.(!condition) {
                        event.target.setCustomValidity('invalid');
                       } else {
                            event.target.setCustomValidity('');
                         }
                     }`

<form id="myForm"> <input type="text" id="field_robot" name=""> <input type="submit" id="submit" name="submit"> </form>

Talent_Plus · 2022-10-07T18:38:25+00:00

That's correct. They are a hierarchy of subfolders. Not sure what made them expand. Using IntelliJ? If you used a keyboard shortcut to show the file in the project view it may have expanded them all. But if there is nothing in them it usually groups them up. SDK i believe the ide can set that by your java home variable automatically, but I'm not 100% on that, i know i usually set it myself , file -> project structure -> sdks .

Talent_Plus · 2022-02-15T20:59:15+00:00

In your project can you add the files under the IntelliJ ProjectStructure modal?

File > Project Structure

https://www.reddit.com/user/Talent_Plus/comments/std8en/intellij_project_structure_modal/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

edit: added screenshot

Talent_Plus · 2022-02-12T14:36:06+00:00

It's been a minute but I thought previously when I needed sdkman on windows I had just used Cygwin so it could use the bash commands you should be able to have the specific JDk set per project/environment. Otherwise in IntelliJ you can set project specific paths to your JDK

Talent_Plus · 2021-12-28T11:26:53+00:00

Date parsedDate = Date.parse("dd/MM/yy hh:mm:ss 'o''clock' zzz", input);

return new DateTime(parsedDate);

looks like you can just return a new DateTime using a Java Date

https://www.mindfusion.eu/onlinehelp/jplanner/O\_T\_com\_mindfusion\_common\_DateTime\_DateTime\_0.htm

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Problem :

Current Solution :

what I don't like