I’m leading the front end design on a project where we use Google Charts to visualize data for a Java web application. The web app’s front end is built on Bootstrap 4. Anyone familiar with Bootstrap and Material Design (Google’s design language) will immediately recognize the disparities between the two in terms of look and feel. One challenge that presented itself while integrating Google Charts with the Bootstrap framework was how to keep the colors in sync between the two systems. In this post, I’ll cover how I worked Bootstrap 4 theme colors into Google Charts via JavaScript to create integrated-looking data visualizations.

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HeidiSQL is a powerful SQL client, and knowing your way around it makes developing against databases a quick and easy task, especially when it comes to creating migration scripts.

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You’re developing locally. Your war exploded. Your artifact deployed. Your browser pops open to localhost:8080. And boom, sad face — Google Chrome displays an SSL connection error message.

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