About Me
I'm a contract Java developer working in Melbourne for the past 10+ years.
More recently I created onmydoorstep.com.au, a place to find out more about where you live in Australia.
I'm also active in the open-source community with several projects ongoing.
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Category Archives: Software Engineering
Implementing security in Wicket with visural-wicket
Wicket has a nice mechanism for plugging in security whereby all components (including pages) have three cross-cutting hooks which can be validated by a security rule – Instantiation Render Enable You can build your own security framework using the IAuthorizationStrategy interface … Continue reading
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Tagged guides, open-source, visural-wicket, wicket
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Demystifying HttpServletRequest properties…
I always find myself writing little test cases to figure out which methods to call on HttpServletRequest to get path / parameter information when doing low level Servlet and Filter programming. The method naming and Javadoc is pretty poor for … Continue reading
Book Review: Racing the Beam – The Atari Video Computer System
I just finished reading Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies) an interesting read about the Atari 2600 (or Atari VCS as it was orginally known). You might think that the Atari VCS was one of the … Continue reading
Netbeans 7 + Git plugin on Windows Issues?
I just started checking out Netbeans 7 which has a nice Git plugin available now in the plugin manager. I was horrified though when I opened a project to find every single source file was being shown as “modified” by Netbeans, although … Continue reading
