Year: 2015
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Using Bacon2D with Sailfish OS
Sailfish OS development for Jolla is quite versatile and you can use QML plugins to enhance your application. But if you’ve used a QML module which isn’t approved in Harbour and want to distribute your application via Jolla Store, you’ve to do some extra steps with it. Lately I ported Ubuntu Phone’s Falldown game for…
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Build secure Web applications by reading Iron-Clad Java
Building secure Web applications isn’t easy and contains many aspects that the development team has to consider and take into account. “Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications” book is good starting point to learn concepts, tactics, patterns and anti-patterns to develop, deploy and maintain secure Java applications. With 304 pages the book is more about…
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Creating Vagrant Base Box with Veewee
Vagrant is a great tool for creating and configuring lightweight, reproducible, portable virtual machine environments but the first step for using Vagrant, downloading an existing “base box”, raises some questions. E.g. How are these unverified boxes built? So, you might end up building your own base box which is often time consuming and cumbersome.… Jatka…
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Starting iOS development with Swift
Mobile application development differs between platforms and after doing couple of applications for the Sailfish OS powering Jolla phone it was finally time to see what other platforms have to provide. I develop Java applications at work so it was logical to look into iOS and learn some Swift. The Internet is full of resources…
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Notes from Owasp Helsinki Chapter Meeting 27
Security is important part of software development and often it doesn’t get enough attention or developers don’t know enough about it. I have been following Troy Hunt on Twitter for some time and as he was coming to Owasp Helsinki Chapter Meeting #27 it was great opportunity to hear about application security at first hand.……
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Disabling Derby in Oracle WebLogic 12c
Oracle WebLogic has some interesting traits to help developers frustrate. From Weblogic 10.3.4 and above the Apache Derby Database is included in the installation. That’s fine but from 12.1.2 release it also starts automatically which is usually unwanted, useless and waste of resources. Previous versions of WebLogic didn’t automatically start the Derby database.… Jatka lukemista…
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Book: Real World Java EE Night Hacks
Reading software development related books can be said to be unnecessary as all the information can be also found from the Internet but sometimes it’s easier to read all the related topics from one place. Adam Bien’s “Real World Java EE Night Hacks: Dissecting the Business Tier” is a book which walks through best practices…
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WordPress theme development with Vagrant on OS X
Developing WordPress themes requires you to have either remote machine with the needed software or installing e.g. PHP and MySQL to your local machine. Although setting up the development environment (LAMP stack) in OS X is quite easy there’s also better option, to separate it from your machine and make it more like it’s on…
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Setting up Bower and Gulp in Windows
Doing things manually is fine once but if you can automate things it’s better. With little tools you can speed up development and reduce recursive mundane tasks such as starting a project or setting up boilerplate code. I recently came across Bower which is a package manager for the web. With Bower you can fetch…
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Essential IntelliJ IDEA keyboard shortcuts
Recently I switched from using Eclipse to IntelliJ IDEA as our Java EE application’s front-end was done with JavaScript and the support for front-end technologies in Eclipse is more or less non-existent. The switch for long time Eclipse user wasn’t easy as IDEA works a bit differently but the change was worth it.… Jatka lukemista…