Biometric Identification [presentation]
Biometric identification is getting more common – borders, phones, doors. But I argue that it is not by itself a good approach. I tried to explain this in a shortContinue reading
Writing Laws Is Quite Like Programming
In the past year I’ve taken the position of an adviser in the cabinet of a deputy prime minister and as a result of that I had the option toContinue reading
Custom Audit Log With Spring And Hibernate
If you need to have automatic auditing of all database operations and you are using Hibernate…you should use Envers or spring data jpa auditing. But if for some reasons youContinue reading
Spring-Managed Hibernate Event Listeners
Hibernate offers event listeners as part of its SPI. You can hook your listeners to a number of events, including pre-insert, post-insert, pre-delete, flush, etc. But sometimes in these listenersContinue reading
Installing Java Application As a Windows Service
It sounds like something you’d never need, but sometimes, when you distribute end-user software, you may need to install a java program as a Windows service. I had to doContinue reading
Why I Prefer Merge Over Rebase
There are many ways to work with git. The workflows vary depending on the size of the team, organization, and on the way of working – is it distributed, isContinue reading
E-Government Architecture [presentation]
After working for a year on the matter, I did a presentation on a small conference about the options for architecture of e-government solutions. A 40 minute talk could notContinue reading
Identity in the Digital World
“Identity” is a set of features that allow unique identification of a person and distinguishing them from others. That sounds simple enough, but it turns out to have a lotContinue reading
Cleanup Temp Files
I’ve been spring-cleaning some devices and the obviousness of the advice in the title seems questionable. I found tons of unused temp files which applications (android apps, desktop applications andContinue reading
Dirty Hacks Are OK
In practically every project you’ve used a “dirty hack”. setAccessbile(true), sun.misc.Unsafe, changing a final value with reflection, copy-pasting a class from a library to change just one line of wrongContinue reading