I am currently getting back to coding in Java + Spring after about 8 years. In the last 8 years, the time I spent on coding has gone significantly as I am now into leadership roles that take me away from writing code. Having said that, I need to understand some level of coding, especially […]
I recently came across this cool tool http://www.stackifier.com/ which allows you to make so much sense out of your stack traces. Once I have locked on a stack I want to look at, this tool makes it so much easier.
We sacrifice the art of writing good and performant code for the short term gains of improving developer productivity.
Annotations can be powerful but only when used to add context and information to the code. But trying to configure your application with them is nothing less that a crime.
Recently, when I decided to make my projects available to the Java Community under Open Source license, I did a lot of things like Hosting my code on Google Code, using Maven to build and test the code and also making sure that I have a project site up and running. However, even after all […]
EAMSteps is a framework that makes Unit Testing easier because of its following principles: – External data store for test data like excel spreadsheet – Automated assertions using co-related inputs and outputs – Minimal lines of code to get started It all started in 2009, when I decided that in long term I would need […]
For many years now, I have always found myself going back to TestNG whenever it comes to doing Unit Testing with Java Code. Everytime, I picked up TestNG, people have asked me why do I go over to TestNG especially with JUnit is provided by the default development environment like Eclipse or Maven. Continuing the […]
Many years back, I moved over into Java world and when I was asked to implement my very first security implementation, I realized that there was no easy way to do this and many clients would actually want us to use LDAP for authentication and authorization. For many years, I continued to use that. And, then one day in a discussion with a client, we were asked to provide SSO implementation and client did not have an existing setup like SiteMinder. I started to think about if we can go about using NTML based authentication. The reason that was possible was because the application we were asked to build was to be used within the organization itself and all the people were required to login into a domain.
I just moved over to Mac (again) and the first thing when started Java Programming was how to get Java_Home in place. While Mac makes a lot of things easy, programming is where it takes you all back to the root. After much finding and reading I found that the following worked.
I came across this very interesting article and the author’s views where programming started way back.
To kick it off, I have attached the tools that I am going to use in the development environment. This is not an exhaustive list, and I may add more things to it as I go about development.
Scratch Pad 