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While amending my website for GDPR compliance, I noticed how dated it really is. Thus in the background I am working on a new solution.

Wow, this amazing 34 hours video course Spring Framework 5: Beginner to Guru (with SpringBoot 2.0) is really quite massive! Learning almost full time, it took me a little over 2 weeks to work through. Ok, I admit, I only really completed ~99% because I skipped a few cookbook goodies which are currently completely irrelevant for me.

For my new freelance project I need to carrying my notebook PC around to and from the clients project office. Unfortunately my business notebook PC is too clumsy (16"), thick (4cm) and heavy (~2.2kg) for such. Thus, I was looking for a new ultra light notebook PC which is still well usable for software development (mostly Java with Eclipse IDE …

Recently I ran across a missing method="post" in a <form ...> tag within a Thymeleaf template which was working despite an @PostMapping annotation of the SpringFramework on the controller method. I was wondering how this could happen and did some investigation. Hopefully this article gives a better chance for the next one who runs into this problem.

Working on a web application with SpringBoot and want your changes made in IntelliJ IDEA to be visible in the browser right away? Then this is for you: