After several months of work, it's time for me to present my most ambitious open-source project. It's not finalized yet; there are still bugs and features that need to be added, but it's sta...

This article may be the hardest I wrote so far here. Not because it is really technical nor because it required a lot of research prior, but because it is controversial and I had to be sure...

I am happy to share with you my first open-source project: LogMasker LogMasker is a log masking library that makes it easy to mask confidential information directly in the logs. This is done...

There are many scenarios where you would need to parse the contents of a website to extract data. Search engines do this, certain applications require this functionality in order to extract...

Article originally posted on my personal website under 5 coding tricks to make your application more stable The stability of your application or web service is important for both you and the...

Article originally posted on my personal website under Using jUnit and Mockito for unit testing in Java Testing is important for all software systems and applications. It will help you easil...

Article originally posted on my personal website under How to use Lombok in your Java projects One thing that I like about Java is the vast amount of libraries that are freely available. The...

In a past article, I wrote about JWTs, how to generate one and how to use them for authorization. JSON Web Tokens, however, have one major drawback. Once it is generated and submitted to the...

Article originally posted on my personal blog under How to handle Exception in Play Framework When programming, it is important to always take into consideration exceptions. No matter how we...

Article originally posted on my personal website under Building a custom converter in Log4j2 I’ve been using Log4J for many years. It is a powerful logging library that is efficient and high...

Article originally posted on my personal website under Building a REST API in Play Framework. Sample requests can also be found there When building web applications, REST has become the most...

Article originally posted o my personal website under How to securely store the password using a salt and pepper In a previous article I wrote how to securely store a password in the databas...

Article originally posted on my personal website under Using JWT in Java A useful feature of a web application is the possibility to authorize a client to access certain features of the app....

I haven't changed jobs for about 4 years and I decided that it was time for either a change, or a substantial increase in my pay at the current company. I wasn't set on leaving my current jo...

Article originally posted on my personal website at How to optimize jQuery DOM manipulation If you are working with JavaScript then most probably jQuery is a library you are using quite freq...

Article originally posted on my personal website at How to organize your web project It is easy to get carried away and just write code. The code may even work as intended but trust me that,...

Article originally posted on my personal blog: How not to expose your primary keys When working on LOGaritmical, I initially had my primary keys defined as UUIDs. I took this approach for tw...

An improved version and source code on my personal website: How to code events in Java A few years ago, back when ActionScript 3 was still used, but barely, I wanted to try game development...

Almost all websites require a form in one way or another. It can be as simple as a search field or a more complex form with many inputs and validation mechanisms. Either way, the main princi...

Problem: Given a poem, with each verse on a new line, Find the verse (or verses) that have the maximum number of appearances and how many times it appears in the text. Solution: public stat...

Original article with another example on my personal website Web technologies have evolved a lot in the past few years, both on the server-side as well as on the client’s side. There are man...

Article originally posted on my website un How to securely store the password in the Database When I started LOGaritmical, one of the first functionalities that I implemented was registering...

One of the most powerful features introduced in Java 8 was Lambda Even though at first it may not seem much, the new functionality speeds up both coding and execution in many cases, if used...

When creating the database structure it is important to make sure that each row in a table has a unique ID so that it can be easily indexed, retrieved, and manipulated when needed. The most...