SourceForge-hosted PDFCreator Trojan/Toolbar Warning
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...
View ArticleFlash Player Settings Manager
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...
View Article5 Common Log4J Mistakes
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...
View Article[Quick Tip] Printing out all matches in an Ant fileset
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,...
View Article[Tutorial] Amazon SOAP Product Advertising API from Java – Including Signing...
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...
View Article[Tutorial] URL Shortening in Java using bit.ly
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....
View Article[Quick Tip] Debugger Shortcut Key Reference
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...
View ArticleAnnouncing: Spring Security 3: The Book
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...
View ArticleFree Spring Security 3 Book Excerpts / Articles / Sample Chapters
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,...
View ArticleAsk a Question at the JavaRanch Spring forum for a Chance to Win my Spring...
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...
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