Tip Of The Day: Make Your Email Column Unique
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
How To Provide Default Serialization Format With Spring MVC RESTful Services
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
Don’t Use JSON And XML As Internal Transfer Formats
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
A Tip For Properly Utilizing Hibernate 2nd Level Cache
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
Do Web 2.0 Companies Really Have The Best Technical Talent?
There are a lot of cool companies with products on the web that millions of people are using. I’ll wondered whether I should label them “web 2.0”, “silicon valley”, “coolContinue reading
Do Programmers Get Bored?
Programmers are people who create computer programs. (I’ll skip the discussion whether it should be “programmer”, “developer”, “engineer”, “coder” or whatever. You know what I’m talking about). What makes programmingContinue reading
Bcrypt. It’s The Bare Minimum.
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
HTML5/Javascript Desktop Software
Remember when we used to download and install software? We do that rarely these days. Every tool that we need has also a web version, which is cooler and doesn’tContinue reading
All That Cloud: Amazon, Google App Engine, Windows Azure, Heroku, Jelastic
You wanna be in the cloud? You have plenty of options. I’ve evaluated or used many of them, so here are a few words about each. (I will include someContinue reading
How To Generate A Schema Creation Script With Hibernate 4, JPA And Maven
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