Teknovis

I have been made aware (thanks) of some interesting web client-server developments recently, so I will group them all together in this post!

• Do you find HTTP too slow? Then you might want to try SPDY! I am actually really impressed that it is already in use in Chrome! For more details see Life beyond HTTP 1.1: Google’s SPDY.
• Are you developing a web site with sensitive information? Then perhaps you should consider HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)! See Strict Transport Security and Public Key Pinning for more interesting details! Actually, after reading DPI Doubts Deepen recently I am more convinced than ever of the need for using security!
• Finally, do you need to classify all of the APIs that you use? Yes – then look at Classification of HTTP-based APIs.

There are a lot of exciting developments there!

Tags: Chrome, HSTS, HTTP, SPDY

Interesting article about an Irish software developer leading the development of the online version of Call of Duty: Black Ops: Irishman’s ‘Black Ops’.

Perhaps there should be greater awareness and exploitation of the potential of the software games industry here in Ireland!

One of my ongoing hobbies is trying to understand if RESTful APIs really are better than SOAP APIs, or are they just the latest fad :)

So I found this imaginary dialogue very humorous: The S stands for Simple!

Enjoy ;)

Somebody passed a comment today on a piece of CamelCase in some code that we were looking at today.

I never heard of that name before, even though I use CamelCase a lot!

I spent hours today trying to determine why a system was not logging certain critical application events! It was very frustrating!

Ultimately, it transpired that the system was logging the events, and that I was looking in the wrong log! This mistake was not really my fault, so at least I did not feel like an idiot :)

A colleague noted that this was a typical example of Occam’s Razor. At least I learned something from this experience!

I heard about the Law of Demeter today! Actually, somebody told me about when he saw a piece of code that I had written!

I just heard that Google has released a new programming language called Go! More information is available at The Go Programming Language.

My initial reaction is that I do not see the advantage of this new programming language.

Tags: Google

New Unit of Reviewed Code Quality

Very funny :D

I used this Java Service Wrapper this morning to load a Java Application (in the form of a JAR) as a Windows XP service!

The process was very straightforward, and it worked perfectly first time!

Tags: Java, Windows XP

I have been doing some work with Quartz this week to develop an application that needs to schedule tasks. Quartz provides a very nice way of doing this that is independent of the operating system.

Unfortunately, I had some difficulty getting the example applications to run because I kept getting some general exceptions (that I cannot remember now).

The problem was that I had not included either commons-collections-3.2.jar or commons-logging-1.1.jar in my classpath!

It took me quite a while to discover that :(

Tags: Java, Quartz