Day: May 23, 2022

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JDBC Tutorial: Nice and Easy [Video]

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Ever looked for a comprehensive intro to JDBC that is fun and entertaining at the same time? Then have a look at this brand-new episode of the "Marco Codes" YouTube channel: JDBC Tutorial: Nice and Easy.

In this video, you'll learn how to use JDBC, the basic API that every Java program uses to access databases. Understand what JDBC drivers are and where to get them, as well as learn how to use an embedded H2 database in addition to the usual suspects like MySQL or Postgres. Fire off SQL select, insert, update and delete statements from Java. Finally, learn about connection pools and the overall Java database framework/library landscape. By the end of the tutorial, there won't be many questions left when it comes to accessing databases with Java.

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First Look At The CSS object-view-box Property

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Ahmad Shadeed — doing what he always does so well — provides an early look at the object-view-box property, something he describes as a native way to crop an image in the browser with CSS.

The use case? Well, Ahmad wastes no time showing how to use the property to accomplish what used to require either (1) a wrapping element with hidden overflow around an image that’s sized and positioned inside that element or (2) the background-image route.

But with object-view-box we can essentially draw the image boundaries as we can with an SVG’s viewbox. So, take a plain ol’ <img> and call on object-view-box to trim the edges using an inset function. I’ll simply drop Ahmad’s pen in here:

Only supported in Chrome Canary for now, I’m afraid. But it’s (currently) planned to release in Chrome 104. Elsewhere:

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