Kotlin and Azure Functions - Automating the deployment

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Apache POI

Recently I needed to write an Azure Function app that uses the Apache POI library for getting the text from Microsoft Word 94 documents (and yes, I am fully aware that the year is currently 2024, but some people still have 30 year old documents kicking around!).

#Application And Data #Languages & Frameworks #Java Tools 6 social mentions

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Kotlin

Being somewhat allergic to coding in Java (this is a personal thing, if you like Java then good for you) I decided to try out writing the code using Kotlin from JetBrains instead. I'm already using IntelliJ as I work with Apache Spark using Scala, so the tooling was already there and ready to go for this.

#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 74 social mentions

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HTTPie for Web & Desktop

So, running locally I have an Azure Function app, written in Kotlin, using the Apache POI library, extracting text from a Wore 94 document (it kills me a little bit every time I write that part). So I opened up HTTPie and started firing sample documents at it.

#API Tools #APIs #Developer Tools 5 social mentions