Monthly Archives: January 2012

Spring Social GitHub: revisiting GitHub integration

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

In my last post, Calling the GitHub API using Spring’s RestTemplate, I explained how to call a public endpoint that retrieves a repository’s watchers on the GitHub API using Spring’s RestTemplate. I was happy to receive a comment by Craig … Continue reading →

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More Skybase screenshots

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

Hey Internet people, Willie here. It’s been a little while since I’ve posted Skybase screenshots, so here’s the work in progress. I explain how to implement this stuff (Spring Data Neo4j, Spring/GitHub integration, JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, etc.) in chapter 11 … Continue reading →

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Skybase/GitHub integration

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

A major goal for Skybase is to tie together the activities of developers, testers, release engineers and operations. A few major benefits are: Tool integration: We can single source app lists and more across development, build, test, deployment, monitoring, knowledge … Continue reading →

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Calling the GitHub API using Spring’s RestTemplate

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

GitHub has an RESTful JSON API that we can call from our apps. In this post I’ll show how I’m grabbing a GitHub repo’s watchers and pull them into my own app using Spring’s RestTemplate. Meet the GitHub API First, … Continue reading →

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Making form:select work nicely using Spring 3 Formatters

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

When you’re creating a web form, it’s often the case that you want to give the user a way to connect one entity up to another entity. This post explains how to do this in a nice, clean way using … Continue reading →

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Closed loops: the secret to collecting configuration management data

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

Hi all, Willie here. Happy New Year! In my last post, How NOT to collect configuration management data, I gave a quick rundown of some losing CM data approaches that I and others have attempted in the past. Most of … Continue reading →

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