by Greg Turnquist | Apr 18, 2014 | java, software
A key turning point in my career was when I was able to take over a non-functional Java Swing app. I had worked for years on a mission critical, 24×7 system written in a now non-existent language and runtime. Frankly, I was a bit tired of it. I had managed a...
by Greg Turnquist | Mar 28, 2014 | java, javascript, jquery, spring
Today has been 100% fun coding with Spring Data #REST, javascript, and pics of cats. 🙂 –https://twitter.com/gregturn/status/448219842056052736 Since last fall, I have shifted to working full time on Spring Data REST. This is an amazing project. It takes Spring...
by Greg Turnquist | Jul 6, 2012 | java, njug, pythontestingcookbook, testing
Someone posted to me a question through meetupcom, “Greg, what is the best testing tool?” I didn’t have room to reply. I posted my response inside the Nashville JUG Google Group we host, but I thought today, it would be better to capture it...
by Greg Turnquist | Jan 9, 2012 | java, ssl
Lately, I have had to work on a Java solution that involved locking down SSL. What do I mean by this? Quite simply, the list of default ciphers provided to Java’s SSLSocket/SSLServerSocket includes some really crazy choices. A few are low grade ciphers (40 bit...
by Greg Turnquist | Aug 24, 2011 | compiler, java, scala
I have been digging for a couple of days on how to build a Scala List inside Java. The blog entries are hard to find. Most talk about converting a java.util.List into a Scala List from inside Scala. That is not what I’m looking for, but what really infuriated me...
by Greg Turnquist | Oct 15, 2009 | java, jython, python, spring python
I recently completed a patch that replaces the amara library with python’s default elementTree library. As much as I like amara’s API, its C-extension basis was unacceptable. I just merged the patch into the trunk, and verified it works with Jython...
