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JavaChannel’s Interesting Links podcast, episode 14

Welcome to the fourteenth ##java podcast. Your hosts, as usual, are Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and Andrew Lombardi from Mystic Coders (kinabalu on the channel), and it’s Wednesday, February 7, 2018. As always, this podcast is basically interesting content pulled from various sources, and funneled through the ##java IRC channel on freenode. You can find the show notes at the channel’s website, at javachannel.org; you can find all of...

Feb 7, 2018 — 3 minute(s) read

#fuzzer #github #java-10 #java-9 #kafka #license #podcast #podcast-14 #pwhash #scala #security #spark #testing

Modular password hashing with pwhash

When building web applications, we usually also have to store user authentication data. When doing so, there’s generally two choices: Either we use an external authentication provider like OAuth, or we store passwords for our users in our database. This blog post focuses on how to do the latter correctly. Password hashing basics Before we dive into the specifics of the pwhash library, we briefly discuss the basics of what we need to be...

Feb 1, 2018 — 8 minute(s) read

#password #security

JavaChannel’s Interesting Links podcast, episode 13

Welcome to the thirteenth ##java podcast. It’s Tuesday, January 30, 2018. Your hosts are Joseph Ottinger (dreamreal on IRC) and Andrew Lombardi (kinabalu on IRC) from Mystic Coders. We have a guest this podcast: Cedric Beust, who’s always been very active in the Java ecosystem, being a factor in Android and author of TestNG as well as JCommander and other tools – and it’s fair to say that if you’ve used modern...

Jan 30, 2018 — 5 minute(s) read

#amqp #coverage #data-structure #ee4j #gradle #grizzly #hash #java-9 #jigsaw #kafka #kobalt #kotlin #linkedin #modules #multiline #oracle #password #podcast #podcast-13 #rabbitmq #testing #testng #trie #vert-x

JavaChannel’s Interesting Links podcast, episode 12

Welcome to the twelfth ##java podcast. Your hosts are Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and Andrew Lombardi (kinabalu on IRC) from Mystic Coders. It’s Tuesday, January 23, 2018. As always, this podcast is basically interesting content pulled from various sources, and funneled through the ##java IRC channel on freenode. You can find the show notes at the channel’s website, at javachannel.org; you can find all of the podcasts using the...

Jan 23, 2018 — 3 minute(s) read

#azul #hollow-jars #jar #java-9 #openjdk #optional #podcast #podcast-12 #scala

JavaChannel's Interesting Links podcast, episode 11

Welcome to the eleventh ##java podcast. I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Tuesday, 2018 January 16. Andrew Lombardi (kinabalu on IRC) from Mystic Coders is also on the podcast, and this episode has a special guest, Kirk Pepperdine from Kodewerk. As always, this podcast is basically interesting content pulled from various sources, and funneled through the ##java IRC channel on freenode. You can find the show notes at the...

Jan 16, 2018 — 4 minute(s) read

#docker #hystrix #java-9 #jigsaw #meltdown #netflix #podcast #podcast-11 #resilience4j #spectre

Javachannel’s Interesting Links podcast, episode 10

Welcome to the tenth ##java podcast. If we were Neanderthals, our lives would be half over by now. As usual, I think, I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Tuesday, 2018 January 9. Andrew Lombardi, kinabalu on IRC from Mystic Coders is with me again. As always, this podcast is basically interesting content pulled from various sources, and funneled through the ##java IRC channel on freenode. You can find the...

Jan 9, 2018 — 7 minute(s) read

#podcast #podcast-10

Javachannel's Interesting Links podcast, episode 9

Welcome to the ninth ##java podcast. If we were using octal, we’d be on the eleventh podcast by now. It’s hosted by Joseph Ottinger (dreamreal) and Andrew Lombardi (kinabalu on irc) from Mystic Coders and, as a guest, Tracy Snell (waz) on the IRC channel, and it’s Friday, 2017 December 29. As always, this podcast is basically interesting content pulled from various sources, and funneled through the ##java IRC channel on freenode...

Dec 29, 2017 — 7 minute(s) read

#async #dsl #jvm #kotlin #latency #memory #null #oop #optional #podcast #podcast-9 #profiler #reactive #rxjava

Javachannel's Interesting Links podcast, episode 8

Welcome to the eighth ##java podcast. I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Thursday, 2017 December 20. Andrew Lombardi from Mystic Coders is with me again. Please don’t forget: this is your podcast, with your content too. You can contribute by using a carrier pigeon and sending us notes encoded with rot13 – twice if you want to be really secure – or by using javabot on the IRC channel, with...

Dec 21, 2017 — 7 minute(s) read

#async #dzone #excel #infoq #monads #nio #nodejs #podcast #podcast-8 #poi #postgres #python #valhalla

Non-Blocking vs. blocking I/O: Go with blocking.

You might have heard or read a various things on the Internet extolling the virtues of writing your applications to be ‘non blocking’. Java offers various libraries that help with this endeavour; Undertow is a java web server that lets you write your servlet handlers non-blocking, for example. XNIO is a more general I/O library that lets you write non-blocking code in simpler fashion. If you take nothing else away from this...

Dec 20, 2017 — 10 minute(s) read

#async #callback #callback-hell #netty #nio #node #nonblocking #promise #promise-hell #python #xnio

How to use Scanner

The java.util.Scanner class built into java can be used to read inputs. It can for example be used to set up an interactive command line session, where you prompt the user for stuff and your program acts on what the user types in. You can also point it at a file or network connection if you like. TL;DR: Do not use nextLine() Phew, glad we got that out there. If you don...

Nov 16, 2017 — 5 minute(s) read

#beginners #commandline #common-mistakes #scanner