Being someone that writes software used by banks around the world as a living, the PSD2 directive is something that was very exciting to me. The idea of being able to access banking data through open APIs not only through sometimes clunky and annoying web pages developed by some banks is something that is very… Read More »
The open-source application server WildFly from which the RedHat owned JBoss application server is derived is one of the most used Java application server lately. This is caused by the strong market consolidation that is happening that caused the Java application server environment to become very restricted. Basically the only open-source enterprise grade Java application… Read More »
There is an annoying feature from Firefox I just found out is causing me huge problems. DNS Prefetching: This feature allows firefox to try to prefetch and cache DNS entries related to the sites you visit. Firefox attempts to speed up loading new websites by using DNS Prefetching, which can cause page load errors with… Read More »
The first time I heard of this guy I was fascinated by him: Paul Le Roux . He is the suspected creator of TrueCrypt the open source software to encrypt your disk. If you never used TrueCrypt maybe you know and use its latest fork VeraCrypt. So, this guy started as an open source idealist… Read More »
The following is a very quick guide on how to set up a EasyRSA certificate based authentication of SoapUI API client to connect to a WebService based API that runs on JBoss or WildFly. Generate a local CA with EasyRSA Download and install easy-rsa – https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa Go to the installation folder and change the following… Read More »
After upgrading my developement Oracle database to 12c I discovered that an old legacy application still under support was no longer working throwing the following Oracle error: After some digging I found the following reported bug: Bug 14575666 In 12.1, the default value for the SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION parameter has been updated to 11. This means that… Read More »
One of the most annoying things is when some vendor decides that it is a good idea to change some very basic and long time existing basic behaviour. In the new Oracle 12c you are no longer able to create local users the old way as sys: If you try to execute the above the… Read More »
If you travel a lot by plane you stumble on all sort of people in the airports. This is a short list of the types I identified: The lost bunch: People running around like headless chickens, lost in the terminal. They annoy everybody and create a buzz in the terminal. The herd: Compact group of… Read More »
You know when your code turns into spaghetti and you start wondering what you were eating or smoking when you wrote that code. Usually nobody is such a bad programmer that writes spaghetti code, spaghetti code is something that builds in time when features are added at big pace or when you implement fixes or… Read More »