This article may be the hardest I wrote so far here. Not because it is really technical nor because it required a lot of research prior, but because it is controversial and I had to be sure that the arguments I will present here are good. Still, I kn...
I am happy to share with you my first open-source project: LogMasker LogMasker is a log masking library that makes it easy to mask confidential information directly in the logs. This is done by intercepting the log event and masking it even before it...
Article originally posted on my personal website at How to organize your web project It is easy to get carried away and just write code. The code may even work as intended but trust me that, in 6 months time, you won’t know anymore what it does and w...
Article originally posted on my personal blog: How not to expose your primary keys When working on LOGaritmical, I initially had my primary keys defined as UUIDs. I took this approach for two reasons: security and to avoid collisions even when there ...
An improved version and source code on my personal website: How to code events in Java A few years ago, back when ActionScript 3 was still used, but barely, I wanted to try game development in Java. All major game engines use other programming langua...
Almost all websites require a form in one way or another. It can be as simple as a search field or a more complex form with many inputs and validation mechanisms. Either way, the main principles are the same and in this post, I will show you how to b...
Original article with another example on my personal website Web technologies have evolved a lot in the past few years, both on the server-side as well as on the client’s side. There are many web frameworks, UI kits, JavaScript libraries and everythi...
Article originally posted on my website un How to securely store the password in the Database When I started LOGaritmical, one of the first functionalities that I implemented was registering a new user. This meant that I had to store the user’s passw...
One of the most powerful features introduced in Java 8 was Lambda Even though at first it may not seem much, the new functionality speeds up both coding and execution in many cases, if used correctly. Here we will be looking over the power of Streams...