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A basic introduction to Lucene, including the following: Setting up Lucene 8, building an index, using analyzers, and performing full-text searches across millions of IMDB movie titles. This is my first time using Lucene, so it only scratches the surface of what the library offers.

The linux tput command can be used to format text output in a variety of ways. Here I use it to add some color to my terminal output.

Two approaches for linux log file compression and purging: custom scripts and logrotate.

The Datatables library can add a great deal of functionality to plain HTML tables. I will focus on a couple of sorting and filtering techniques which I have found useful - especially when handling text containing accents and diacritics.

What happens when a user wants to search your website for a word such as cooperate, but some instances are stored as coöperate? Notice those two tiny dots on top of the second ö? What are they? And why do we care?

Jdbi is is built on top of JDBC - you can use Jdbi wherever you have a JDBC driver. I use it for the way it lets me load result sets directly into my Java classes. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

The Thymeleaf templating language has many great features. But I will focus mainly on two, here: (1) Its template fragments using parameters - which let you build generic HTML widgets; and (2) its pre-processing directive - which adds a lot of power to what Thymeleaf can do for you.

Javalin is a simple web framework for Java and Kotlin. It uses an embedded Jetty web server, which means you can configure the core features of Jetty to enhance your Javalin web application. Here I will look at setting up custom session management via a JDBC handler, and using a related database table.

Javalin is a simple web framework for Java and Kotlin. It uses an embedded Jetty web server, which means you can configure the core features of Jetty to enhance your Javalin web application. Here I will look at setting up TLS 1.3 and HTTP/2 for my webapp.

A demo web site using features from various libraries and tools, including Javalin, Thymeleaf, Jdbi, Hikari, Hibernate Validator, Gson, DataTables and others. The demo uses movie data from IMDb.