Leon Atherton

  https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/leon/ Leon has over 15 years’ Java experience and leads BuildVu, also contributing to cloud services and internal tooling. Wearing many hats across technical and growth roles as a core member, he enjoys motorsport, strategy games, and software side projects.

   



47 Stories by Leon Atherton

How to enable GZIP Compression in Tomcat, Jetty, GlassFish and Payara

GZIP Compression is a widely supported method of reducing the file size of the content hosted by your Java Application Server. This reduces bandwidth...
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What is a Microservice?

If the term Microservice is new to you then chances are that you’re thinking the same thing that went through my mind when I...
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How to convert PDF files to SVG (Tutorial)

How to convert a single PDF file to SVG Access your free converter HERE. Select the PDF file you would like to convert Configure...
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Making a Simple Basecamp Chatbot with NodeJS

Creating a chatbot is a fun way to integrate external tool functionality within Basecamp. I recently created one to call the Bitbucket API, allowing...
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What Chrome 45 dropping NPAPI Plug-in support means

With the recent news that Google has now killed off NPAPI plugins in Chrome 45, it has left many wondering exactly what NPAPI plugins...
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Using Trello as a tool to manage Sprints for Agile and Scrum

We are big fans of Trello at IDRSolutions and have several boards that we use for different purposes. One of the ways that we...
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