Most web pages now consist of multiple JavaScript files that are included in various ways (via <script> or in some more dynamic fashion, bundled and minified or not). But sinceContinue reading
Writing software consists of very little actual “writing”, and much more thinking, designing, reading, “digging”, analyzing, debugging, refactoring, aligning and meeting others. The reading and digging part is where youContinue reading
Every now and then one has a half-baked idea about some project that they aren’t likely to be able to do because of lack of time. I’ve written about suchContinue reading
Facebook announced today that by 2020 they will roll out Libra – their blockchain-based cryptocurrency. It is, of course, major news, as it has the potential to disrupt the paymentContinue reading
The other day I was wondering – which is the most important Java API. Which of the SE and EE APIs is the one that makes most of the JavaContinue reading
Sometimes you don’t have a PKI in place but you still need a key and a corresponding certificate to sign stuff (outside of the TLS context). And after the certificateContinue reading
Caching is key for performance of nearly every application. Distributed caching is sometimes needed, but not always. In many cases a local cache would work just fine and there’s noContinue reading
Blockchain is a relatively niche technology at the moment, and even thought there’s a lot of hype, its applicability is limited. I’ve been skeptical about its ability to solve allContinue reading
In the category of “niche blogposts”, this is probably the “nichest”. But it might be useful, so I’ll share it. Recently I had to interface an IBM i system (thinkContinue reading
An audit trail (or audit log) is something both intuitive and misleading at the same time. There are many definitions of an audit trail, and all of them give youContinue reading