February 18, 2009
Suppose you have some text in Java that you want to manipulate. There are classes like StringBuffer for doing so, but let’s imagine that you choose to use a char array for some special reason. Now suppose that several pages of code later, perhaps in a different piece of code entirely, you decide to use [...]
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January 12, 2009
The SANS Institute has published a list of the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors. The list itself contains all the usual suspects–buffer overflows, SQL injection, relying on client code to perform data validation, and various other classics. If any of the items on the list strike you as surprising, you probably shouldn’t be writing [...]
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November 4, 2008
Getting your SSL code to work on both Sun and IBM JVMs.
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September 16, 2008
You might not have heard about it, but there’s a debate going on which threatens to redefine time as we measure it. I’m something of a time nerd; all the computers in our house are synchronized to atomic clocks, as are several of our regular clocks, my wristwatch, and my phone. The debate going on [...]
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September 5, 2008
How to do a JDBC query–something which hardly anyone can get right, apparently.
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August 26, 2008
The final word on the final keyword when used with Java method parameters.
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August 26, 2008
I quite like Java as of Java SE 5. However…
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August 11, 2008
Problems with SSL connections to Domino caused by a bad /etc/hosts entry.
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July 17, 2008
Can’t connect to a Domino server with a self-signed SSL certificate, using a Java client? Here’s how to fix the problem.
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