Dan Newton

I write tutorials on my blog at www.lankydan.dev . During the day, I am a Platform Engineer at r3 where I work on Corda, an Open Source DLT/Blockchain Platform.

Reading Joined on Sep 19, 2018

Education

University of Leicester

Work

Platform Engineer at R3

Dan Newton

Jul 26

Cancelling child coroutines

#kotlin #coroutines

3 min read

Missing @EntityScan annotation in Spring Data Neo4j

#java #neo4j #spring

5 min read

Dan Newton

Jul 26

Mapping a path in Spring Data Neo4j

#java #neo4j #spring

5 min read

Dan Newton

Jul 26

Mapping a path query in Spring Data Neo4j

#java #neo4j #spring

5 min read

Dan Newton

Jul 26

Java friendly Kotlin - default arguments

#kotlin #java

6 min read

Dan Newton

Jun 17

Transaction savepoints in Spring JDBC

#spring #sql #java #kotlin

6 min read

Dan Newton

May 12

Cancelling coroutines

#kotlin #coroutines

5 min read

Dan Newton

May 6

Waiting for coroutines

#kotlin #coroutines

4 min read

Dan Newton

Apr 18

Java friendly Kotlin - static functions

#kotlin #java

3 min read

Dan Newton

Apr 18

Launching your coroutine knowledge

#kotlin #coroutines

6 min read

Dan Newton

Mar 2

Defined by failure - How failure fueled my improvement

#career

3 min read

Dan Newton

Jul 26

Calling Java Functional Interfaces from Kotlin

#java #kotlin

2 min read

Dan Newton

Jul 26

Serializable Java Lambdas

#java #kryo #lambdas #functions

7 min read

Dan Newton

Nov 21 '19

Sometimes, it's better to not do your work

#culture #work #teamwork

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4 min read

Dan Newton

Sep 20 '19

Augmenting a Spring Data repository through delegation

#kotlin #java #spring #springdata

3 min read

Dan Newton

Sep 12 '19

Implementing multiple interfaces through delegation

#kotlin

3 min read

Dan Newton

Aug 31 '19

Streaming live updates from a reactive Spring Data repository

#kotlin #java #spring #r2dbc

4 min read

Dan Newton

Aug 17 '19

The potential traps in Kotlin's Data Classes

#kotlin

3 min read

Dan Newton

Aug 13 '19

Corda - Connecting a Ktor web server to a Corda node

#corda #kotlin #blockchain #dlt

5 min read

Dan Newton

Aug 1 '19

Corda - Flows can do anything

#corda #blockchain #dlt #kotlin

4 min read

Dan Newton

Jul 25 '19

Ktor - a Kotlin web framework

#kotlin #ktor

25 3

8 min read

Dan Newton

Jul 11 '19

Corda - Saving transactions where only a subset of parties are signers

#corda #dlt #blockchain #kotlin

6 min read

Dan Newton

Jun 23 '19

Kotlin primitive and object arrays

#kotlin #java #beginners

4 min read

Dan Newton

Jul 4 '19

Corda - Preventing invalid spending of broadcasted states

#corda #kotlin #blockchain #java

7 min read

Dan Newton

Jun 8 '19

#discussWriters, bloggers, posters - Why do you write?

#discuss #blogging #career

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3 min read

Dan Newton

Jun 2 '19

Corda - Broadcasting a transaction to external organisations

#kotlin #corda #blockchain #dlt

4 min read

Dan Newton

May 25 '19

Running a Kotlin class as a subprocess

#kotlin

4 min read

Dan Newton

Jul 18 '19

Corda - Extending Flows to customise transaction validation

#corda #blockchain #dlt #kotlin

4 min read

Dan Newton

May 18 '19

Running a Java class as a subprocess

#java

4 min read

Dan Newton

May 15 '19

#DevDiscuss on Twitter leaves out EU time zone

#meta

5 3

1 min read

Dan Newton

May 9 '19

Class delegation in Kotlin

#kotlin #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

Dan Newton

May 10 '19

Spring Data R2DBC for Microsoft SQL Server

#kotlin #java #spring #sql

7 min read

Dan Newton

Apr 28 '19

Uploading and downloading attachments in Corda

#corda #kotlin #blockchain #dlt

4 min read

Dan Newton

Apr 21 '19

#discussTo comment or not to comment?

#discuss #beginners #advice

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1 min read

Dan Newton

Apr 13 '19

#discussAsking the right question, in the right way and in the right place

#beginners #discuss #learning #tips

6 min read

Dan Newton

Mar 17 '19

#discussWhat are your favourite podcasts? 🤔 🤔

#discuss #beginners #podcast #tips

37 27

3 min read

Dan Newton

Mar 12 '19

#discussChanging job - How often is too often?

#discuss #career #beginners

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1 min read

Dan Newton

Mar 4 '19

Removing elements from a Map in Java

#java #java8 #basics #beginners

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3 min read

Dan Newton

Feb 27 '19

#discussShould you reply to all LinkedIn messages from recruiters?

#discuss #jobs #employment #recruitment

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1 min read

Dan Newton

Feb 24 '19

#discussListening to music while working - Yay or nay and what to listen to

#discuss #music #focus #happiness

11 18

1 min read

Dan Newton

Feb 16 '19

Asynchronous RDBMS access with Spring Data R2DBC

#java #kotlin #r2dbc #spring

8 min read

Dan Newton

Mar 31 '19

Testing exceptions in Kotlin with assertFailsWith

#kotlin #testing

4 min read

Dan Newton

Aug 8 '19

Testing exceptions in Kotlin with `assertFailsWith`

#kotlin #testing

4 min read

Dan Newton

Mar 24 '19

Configuring Logback with Spring Boot

#java #logback #logging #spring

17 min read

Dan Newton

Apr 7 '19

Privately scoped variable in a `when` block

#kotlin #beginners

2 min read

Dan Newton

Jun 28 '19

Privately scoped variable in `when` block

#kotlin

2 min read

Dan Newton

Oct 6 '18

Corda - Starting Flows with trackBy

#corda #kotlin #dlt #blockchain

6 min read

Dan Newton

Sep 19 '18

Containerising a Spring Data Cassandra application

#cassandra #docker #spring #java

8 min read

Dan Newton

May 5 '19

Default and private methods in Interfaces

#java #beginners #tutorial

6 min read

Dan Newton

Jun 17 '19

Learning Big O Notation with O(n) complexity

#beginners #theory #computerscience

4 min read

Dan Newton

Aug 22 '19

Which for loop?

#java #beginners

4 min read

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