Welcome to northCoder

I will walk through the basics of creating a new H2 database on a Windows machine - the commands for Linux are pretty much the same (it’s all Java-based). I will take a close look at H2’s connection URL syntax, as it was somewhat confusing to me, the first time I tried to use it.

A walk-through of how to use IMDB’s publicly available movie data to set up my own database of realistic - and also reasonably large - data. I use this in various other projects, demos and investigations.

Some examples of Java streams I have seen in the wild.

RabbitMQ Java sample code.

How to use PuTTY for SSH and how to set up Pageant to launch when my PC starts, with the relevant keys pre-loaded…

Solarized Light is much nicer for me to use than the default PuTTY color scheme.

Combined with a couple of other changes, it gives me a nice layout in PuTTY.

PuTTY stores its settings in the Windows Registry.  So, to apply Solarized Light to a session:

1. Back up your registry settings using Regedit’s export utility.
2. Create a PuTTY session in the usual way, and save it.
3. Place the below in a text file with a .reg file extension.
4. Replace FOO%20BAR on line 3 with the PuTTY session name (spaces are %20).
5. Double-click the .reg file to launch the Registry Editor, which loads the values.

See below:

One of those things I don’t do often enough to remember the details: The commands needed to transfer a PEM-based certificate into a Java keystore

Handling Unicode characters in the Java console.

Some diagrams showing nomenclature for CSS, HTML, XML, Java and Java Lambdas.

For my own review…