Archive
I’ll admit, my blog’s Archive section is showing its age. While those older posts were relevant when written, many are now outdated and less useful. I keep them for completeness, but readers looking for the latest info are better off checking out my newer articles outside the Archive.
Monitoring your application locally with NewReclic
The New Relic Digital Intelligence Platform provides actionable insights to drive digital business results. You can monitor your application and infrastructure …
Using Self-Signed Multi-Domain Certificates
Self-signed certificates are usually used for TLS authentication on non-production environments. We’ll discuss here how to generate proper certificate for …
Selenium Tests with Maven and Selenide
The article explains how to use Selenide, a wrapper around Selenium WebDriver, to simplify writing UI tests in Java. It provides a sample Maven POM file with …
Spring+Freemarker Tips
I hope you will find following tips useful when developing Spring Boot application with Freemarker.
Java Application Development Tutorial
I’ve been meaning to write a small tutorial for building web applications. Now it’s time! Let’s define the steps and choose some solutions for …
Booting Spring Webapp
Spring Boot is an excellent tool to bootstrap java application. Most of the references mention how to create a standalone java application, optionally with …
Syncing iTunes Library Between two Computers
Given: Two family Macs with iTunes 12 installed More than 10GB of audio files I want to share my media library between these two computers and keep them …
Base64 Variants in Java 8
You most likely used Base64 encoding. It’s about encoding any sequence of data as a printable string (digits, lower case and upper case letters). But …
Conditional Java Configurations in Spring Framework
Spring Framework offers very flexible means for binding application components. Externalizable properties, composite configuration, nested application contexts …
JAX-WS with Custom SSLSocketFactory
It’s very easy to configure custom SSLSocketFactory for JAX-WS web-service: just specify custom property referring to SSLSocketFactory bean. But there is …