My Personal Blog

Some of my thoughts and experiences.

May 8, 2013

Spring Application without XML Config

When Spring Framework was first released in 2003, as an IoC container, Spring Framework is using XML as the configuration file format ever since. Spring 2.0, which was released in 2006, introduced XML Schema-based configuration. And since Spring 2.5, annotation-based configuration was used. Later Spring 3.0 was released in 2009, with Java Config project being merged into the core framework.
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Spring Framework Java Config Spring Security

Published by Yuan Ji on May 8, 2013 at 4:33:37 AM | 1 Comments

May 7, 2013

Java Training: Inversion of Control and Spring Framework

I started JiwhizBlog User Group last month with a group of University students. We meet at Computing Science Center at weekends to learn Java development together. I did a presentation about the architecture of my blog application to students, and the feedback is they want to learn some basic knowledge of enterprise business application development. So I initialized my serial of training session. The first one was delivered last Sunday. I'm glad six people attended my session. Thank you for your participation and feedback.
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Inversion of Control Java training Spring Framework

Published by Yuan Ji on May 7, 2013 at 3:40:02 AM | 1 Comments

Apr 27, 2013

Google Analytics

In my Jiwhiz Blog Application, I added a feature of logging visit count for any blog post page. Recently my friend 王昊 introduced Google Analytics to me. Yesterday I created an account at Google Analytics for my jiwhiz.com website.
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Google Analytics

Published by Yuan Ji on Apr 27, 2013 at 5:28:08 AM | 1 Comments

Apr 22, 2013

Open Source Jiwhiz Blog Web Application

Six months ago I published my first blog post in jiwhiz.com. Now as I promised, my blog web application JiwhizBlogWeb is open sourced at GitHub. I have a passion for beautiful design, and design is not just documentations, or fancy diagrams; design is code as well. So I published my code to share my experience and get more feedback from community, in order to promote open source solutions and domain driven design.
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JiwhizBlog open source

Published by Yuan Ji on Apr 22, 2013 at 6:06:07 AM | 1 Comments

Apr 20, 2013

Customize Your Personal Blog Website

After finishing previous three steps: Running Jiwhiz Blog Locally, Deploy Jiwhiz Blog To Cloud Foundry and Register Your Application For Social Login, you have put your personal blog website into cloud. But that is just the beginning. You will spend lots of time later to customize, improve, enhance the application, and most important, publish your blog articles.
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JiwhizBlog Bootstrap CloudFoundry AppFog

Published by Yuan Ji on Apr 20, 2013 at 5:31:21 AM | 0 Comments

Apr 19, 2013

Register Your Application For Social Login

Last time, you learned how to Deploy Jiwhiz Blog to Cloud Foundry, and here is the final step to make your blog application fully functional. You need to register your application for social login or social sign-in.
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JiwhizBlog Social Login Google Facebook Twitter

Published by Yuan Ji on Apr 19, 2013 at 3:32:11 AM | 0 Comments

Apr 18, 2013

Deploy Jiwhiz Blog To Cloud Foundry

If you follow my previous post Running Jiwhiz Blog Locally, you may successfully get it working on your local PC. Now let’s go a step further, deploy your blog application to CloudFoundry.com.
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JiwhizBlog CloudFoundry

Published by Yuan Ji on Apr 18, 2013 at 5:32:57 AM | 0 Comments

Apr 18, 2013

Running Jiwhiz Blog Locally

To run JiwhizBlog Web application locally, you need to setup several tools on your PC. Here I want to list a detail instruction about how to do it.
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JiwhizBlog

Published by Yuan Ji on Apr 18, 2013 at 4:31:38 AM | 1 Comments

Mar 19, 2013

Add Tag Cloud With Spring Data MongoDB And Thymeleaf

Many of the blog websites have the Tag Cloud displayed, to visualize the keywords (or tags) used in their blog posts, and usually more important words are shown with bigger font size and/or bolder colour. It will be very cool to have a tag cloud on my JiwhizBlog website as well.
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tag cloud Spring Data MongoDB Thymeleaf jquery.tagcloud.js SpringMVC

Published by Yuan Ji on Mar 19, 2013 at 2:25:25 AM | 0 Comments

Mar 10, 2013

Markdown Your Comment

Yesterday I added a new feature to my blog application, and now as a user, you can add comment with Markdown syntax. Please try it and let me know if you find any problems.
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Markdown Txtmark Thymeleaf JiwhizBlog

Published by Yuan Ji on Mar 10, 2013 at 2:18:26 PM | 2 Comments

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