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Ask a Question at the JavaRanch Spring forum for a Chance to Win my Spring Security 3 Book!

pmularien — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:31:27 +0000

I apologize in advance for another post about the book, but for those who are interested, we’re sponsoring the JavaRanch book giveaway this week, in the JavaRanch Spring forum – simply post a new thread with a question about my book, Spring Security 3, and you will have a chance to win it! The promotion [...]

Free Spring Security 3 Book Excerpts / Articles / Sample Chapters

pmularien — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:05:01 +0000

For those who were interested in the Spring Security 3 book that I recently published, Packt has excerpted a couple sections of the book as “articles” on their web site. They’re available for free, with no registration required: Configuring Secure Passwords (this is an excerpt of Chapter 4) Migration to Spring Security 3 (this is [...]

Announcing: Spring Security 3: The Book

pmularien — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:00:23 +0000

I write this announcement with a lot of excitement and a great sigh of relief. It was about a year ago when I was approached by Packt Publishing, who was interested in my introduction to Spring Security, and somehow got the idea that I could write. They recognized that there was no published book focusing [...]

[Quick Tip] Debugger Shortcut Key Reference

pmularien — Sun, 16 May 2010 13:39:12 +0000

Debugger Shortcut Keys Tool Run Continue Step Over Step Into Step Out Suspend Debug Eclipse Ctrl+F11 F8 F6 F5 F7 N/A F11 Firebug F11 F10 Netbeans F5 F8 F7 Ctrl+F7 IntelliJ Shift-F10 F9 F8 F7 Shift+F8 Shift+F9 Visual Studio Ctrl+F5 F5 F10 F11 Shift+F11 Ctrl+Alt+Break F5 [...]

[Tutorial] URL Shortening in Java using bit.ly

pmularien — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:19:04 +0000

A while ago, I had written up a tutorial on accessing the TinyURL API from Java. I was recently playing with the bit.ly API and decided to write up a quick tutorial on generating bit.ly URLs from Java. Why bit.ly? Since Twitter switched from TinyURL to bit.ly, I decided I’d take a look at it. [...]

[Tutorial] Amazon SOAP Product Advertising API from Java – Including Signing of Requests with WS-Security

pmularien — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:10:59 +0000

Amazon has made a lot of affiliates unhappy with their updates to the Product Advertising API (ex-Affiliate API). I first covered invoking this API a couple years ago – my, have things changed since then. On August 15, 2009, Amazon will be requiring all affiliates using the Product Advertising API to digitally sign their API [...]

[Quick Tip] Printing out all matches in an Ant fileset

pmularien — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:17:10 +0000

This is one of those things that’s so handy, I can’t believe it hasn’t been posted before. I found a 2006 post from JavaLobby, where R.J. Lorimer writes about how to print out a classpath. Also useful, but the particular use case I ran into was – one of our build scripts uses a fileset [...]

5 Common Log4J Mistakes

pmularien — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:22:24 +0000

I’ve seen these antipatterns over and over again, and I thought it was time to write about them to help any folks who are new to Log4J out there. Senior developers – please share this with your junior peers and save yourself the pain of refactoring later! I’m interested in common mistakes or points of [...]

Flash Player Settings Manager

pmularien — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:00:33 +0000

For those who don’t already have this bookmarked, you can use the Flash Player settings manager movie on the Adobe Support Web site to adjust the following: Website privacy and storage settings (did you know that Flash keeps a list of all sites you’ve visited with Flash movies?) Global security settings (setting trusted locations, etc.) [...]

SourceForge-hosted PDFCreator Trojan/Toolbar Warning

pmularien — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:46:18 +0000

I decided to post this as a public safety announcement, since I (surprisingly) didn’t see this blogged elsewhere. I have, for many years now, used the free/open source PDFCreator software for simple PDF generation and testing. I recently updated to the most recent version (0.9.7) of the software (now hosted at pdfforge.org), and have made [...]