Programming

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 …

The Programmers Oath

A must-see speech by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin on programmers responsibilities in digital world and 9 principles every programmer should follow …

Logging policy

There are different points of view on how logging levels should be used in code. I will share mine. My assumption is: “There should be no errors in logs …

How to Start Testing UI Before Backend is Ready

Testing web UIs before the backend is ready: create UI mockups first using fake data, turn them into a functional prototype, test thoroughly, then build the …

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.

Secure Java coding best practices

Making your web application flawless against security attacks is a challenge for every java developer. In this article I will briefly describe common practical …

Secure Java logging with Logback

Deploying application into secure environment adds some restrictions on logging and log management. OWASP community gives some useful recommendations.

Implementing Automatic Reconnection for Netty Client

One of the first requirement of Netty ISO8588 client connector is the support for automatic reconnect. One of the first receipts I came across was Thomas …

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 …