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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Tag Archives: open-source
AOP, Annotation-based caching solution for Guice projects…
I just released a new version of the visural-common library (0.3.1) which includes support for a simple, flexible annotation based cache, for non-distributed projects. Why non-distributed projects? Unlike most other caching libraries I don’t offer integrations with ehcache or other … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Software Engineering
Tagged caching, Google, guice, Java, open-source, visural-common
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OraDocletPlus – enhanced Oracle DB documentation generator released
I just finished testing and packaging OraDocletPlus – a modified version of the OraDoclet DB documentation tool for Oracle. The main differences with this version over the original are one or two bugs fixed and a revamp to bring the … Continue reading
Posted in Databases, Software Engineering
Tagged automation, database, doclet, documentation, open-source, oracle
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markdown doclet updated to v3
Yesterday I published a new version of markdown-doclet which fixes the issue of using custom Taglets, which was raised by a user report. I also spent some time looking into a few of the other more difficult problems I’ve been … Continue reading
HTML Sanitizer added to visural-common…
Cleaning HTML input to protect against cross site scripting (XSS) attacks is never fun. Doing some searching for a suitable Java-based sanitizing tool came up with a few candidates – the OWASP AntiSamy seems like the most fully featured one, … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Software Engineering
Tagged Java, open-source, security, visural-common, web, wicket, xss
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