karomile.com

karomile.com was supposed to be a simple in a design but rich in content. This is a karomile's photo site developed by me, according to her concept and design. After the PayTogether Android app, this is another project in my portfolio - web development is my skill as well (also in much more advanced designs, responsive …

Proxy configuration for Gradle

Are you using gradle behind corporate proxy? Here is how to configure proxy data for gradle (urls and credentials) gradle.properties file Gradle (and gradlew as well) is automatically reading gradle.properties file that is either in project directory or in USER_HOME/.gradle directory. Inside of gradle.properties file set properties: systemProp.http.proxyHost=http_proxy_ip_or_url systemProp.http.proxyPort=port systemProp.http.proxyUser=username systemProp.http.proxyPassword=pwd systemProp.https.proxyHost=https_proxy_ip_or_url systemProp.https.proxyPort=port systemProp.https.proxyUser=username systemProp.https.proxyPassword=password …

New Technology Radar – what’s new for me

Here is the new analysis of trends in Technology, Tools, Platforms and Languages & Frameworks. ThoughtWorks is sharing their experiences from projects they support or build in a periodic Tech Radar publications. The pdf version for Nov 2016 is here and the newest edition is always here. In this post I'm going to share remarks …

Online ‘learning-by-doing’ courses I attended – was it worth the money?

There are more and more online courses available. The 'Learning by doing' are in my particular interest. Here I want to: - list the courses or sites I attended and write a short summary - know the same from your side - feel free to add your thoughts on online courses.   Where I have …

Spring: Securing REST API with BasicAuth

The simpliest, yet effective way to secure Spring REST API is to use Basic Auth. I'm going to show how to do it with Spring Security. Note Basic Auth is stateless (no need to manage sessions) and simple to implement. However it should be used with https only if outside of a trusted network. Also …

Spring JMX: Manage beans in runtime

JMX (Java Management Extensions) allows to change the bean field values or invoke bean methods on the fly at runtime. It is in opposite to DI where you configure application when it starts, using profiles or classpath. With JMX you can tune, monitor or configure your application anytime when it is running. At the heart …

Recent ThoughtWorks Tech Radar

If you were wondering whether the technology, trend or tool is worth investing your time and effort, the Tech Radar by ThoughtWorks may help you making the decision. The analysis is based on observations and predictions. New editions come periodially and here is always the recent one: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar Some highlits that interested me the most …

Java equals() vs. compareTo() contract

The definitions Object's equals(Object obj) method: Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one compareTo(T t) is an abstract method from Comparable interface and it: Compares this object with the specified object for order. Returns a negative integer, zero, or a positive integer as this object is less than, equal to, or greater …