Having only twitter and facebook authentication so far, I decided to add Mozilla Persona to the list for my latest project (computoser, computer-generated music). Why? I like trying new thingsContinue reading
Skype screwed up and it got revealed today. Due to a series of stupid things, there is (was) a trivial way to hijack anyone’s account. One of the stupid thingsContinue reading
Spring MVC allows you to serialize objects with @ResponseBody to any format – it has built-in converters for JSON and XML. However, even though your application may support both, youContinue reading
You have a system that has multiple components and they have to communicate. They do that either via internal web services or using a message queue. Normally, you would wantContinue reading
Your entity is @Cacheable, your cache is configured properly, but still, loading an entity produces a lot of sql queries. I noticed that the other day, and realized something: hibernateContinue reading
The other day I read this Arstechnica article and realized how tragic the situation is. And it is not this bad because of the evil hackers. It’s bad because fewContinue reading
The scenario is trivial – you want to generate a database schema creation script while building your application (and then execute the script on the target database) This was relativelyContinue reading
You develop your site, and you are going to deploy it to production. Assuming you have a lot of traffic, you’d need to optimize your assets (javascript and css). SomeContinue reading
This should really be a simple distinction, but I’ve been answering a slew of similar questions on Stackoverflow, and often people misunderstand the matter. So, what is a classpath? AContinue reading
You may be using JSON to transfer data (we were using it in our message queue). While this is good, it has the only benefit of being human-readable. If youContinue reading