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2016


Developing in "Dirty Trunk"

I’m going to start a series of posts covering different aspects of DevOps.

Let’s start today with branching strategy called “dirty trunk”. Actually, this is an attempt to avoid branching at all.

DevMode Javascript Exception Handler

StackOverflow-driven JS development: try { something } catch (e) { window.open('https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[js]+"' + e.message + '"'); }

2015


Secure Java Coding Best Practices

Making your web application flawless against security attacks is a challenge for every java developer. In this article I will briefly describe common practical development techniques that can help you to achieve it.

Secure Java Logging with Logback

Deploying application into secure environment adds some restrictions on logging and log management. OWASP community gives some useful recommendations.

Implementing Automatic Reconnection for Netty Client

One of the first requirement of Netty ISO8588 client connector was the support for automatic reconnect.

One of the first receipts I came across was Thomas Termin’s one. He suggests adding a ChannelHandler which will schedule the calling of client’s connect() method once a Channel becomes inactive. Plus adding ChannelFutureListener which will re-create a bootstrap and re-connect if initial connection was failed.

Although this is a working solution, I had a feeling that something is not optimal. Namely, the new Bootstrap is being created on every connection attempt.

So, I created a FutureListener which should be registered once a Channel is closed.

Java Application Development Tutorial

I’ve been meaning to write a small tutorial for building web applications. Now it’s time! Let’s define the steps and choose some solutions for developing back-end java web application.

I will give my design recommendations and list a technologies I would use. You may have your own opinion and you may share it in comment. Over time, this post may change since my favourites are also changing over time.

Self-Hosted Web Analytics Solution for AngularJS

There are situations when you need to analyze user’s experience but can’t use a third-party web analytics solutions like Google Analytics or Yandex Metrika. For example, if your production environment is PCI DSS compliant. In this case you have to deploy self-hosted analytics engine and inside your environment and configure user actions tracking in your application. One of the possible solutions is the piwik as analytics engine + Angulartics or angular-piwik for tracking events inside AngularJS application.

Loading Indicators for AngularJS

Modern web application should be user friendly and notify the User when time consuming operation is on the way, e.g. uploading file or downloading data. There are a some solutions for AngularJS which are fairy easy to integrate. First one is Angular Loading Bar. It can be attached to your application with almost zero configuration and does not affect application design. It attaches the interceptor to $http service and displays a thin progressbar on the top edge of the page.

Tags Input Control for AngularJS

Stay DRY! Don’t waste your time implementing tags input control for AngularJS yourself! There is an excellent AngularJS module for that called “ngTagsInput”. It’s also supports autocomptetion, validations,custom styles and templates. See the demos. It took me just 10 minutes to add that type of control to my application. All you need to do is: Add NPM or Bower dependency npm install ng-tags-input --save bower install ng-tags-input --save Include script and CSS to your html page.