Ken Fogel: “What Are You Leaving Behind?”
- June 08, 2021
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I recently had the good fortune to be interviewed by Robbie Russel on his podcast "Maintainable: The Art of Improving Existing Software" (@_maintainable).
EPISODE SUMMARY
Robby speaks with Ken Fogel, College Instructor, JCP EC member, and Java Champion. They discuss the benefits of unit testing, how Dawson approaches internship placement, and the importance of code documentation. Ken also talks about how software is about more than just getting things to work, and why it's important to focus on the long-term impact of coding decisions.
EPISODE NOTES
Robby speaks with Ken Fogel, College Instructor, JCP EC member, and Java Champion. They discuss the benefits of unit testing, how Dawson approaches internship placement, and the importance of code documentation. Ken also talks about how software is about more than just getting things to work, and why it's important to focus on the long-term impact of coding decisions.
You can find it at https://maintainable.fm/episodes/ken-fogel-what-are-you-leaving-behind.
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Comments (2)
Tobiloba
3 years agoI see that you save the point of interest as text in the DB but the response gotten from ChatGPT is JSON. Does this mean you convert the response into string using libraries like gson before saving it in the database?
Denis Magda
3 years agoHey, The response is a String object in the JSON format [1]. The repository takes this JSON string as is and stores to the database [2]. Presently, Spring Data auto-generates the CREATE TABLE statement on the startup and sets the "point of interest" column's type to "text" (or "varchar", don't remember). However, it's always possible to ask Spring Data to use the "json" or "jsonb" type for the column if you wish to query the JSON at the database level. Finally, Vaadin displays a list of PointsOfInterests. Those are generated using the org.json library [3]. Let me know if you have other questions. Hope this helps. [1] https://github.com/YugabyteDB-Samples/budget-journey-gpt/blob/main/src/main/java/com/yugabyte/com/TripsAdvisorService.java#L103 [2] https://github.com/YugabyteDB-Samples/budget-journey-gpt/blob/main/src/main/java/com/yugabyte/com/TripsAdvisorService.java#L74 [3] https://github.com/YugabyteDB-Samples/budget-journey-gpt/blob/main/src/main/java/com/yugabyte/com/TripsAdvisorService.java#L114