Monday, September 02, 2013

Building and Deploying Code. Trials and Tribulations.

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Random notes for today's challenge: Packaging up my AWS web app for deployment. The time it takes me to get something from "worki...

Creating a Manifest File with Ant - Class not found when creating Jars

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When creating a jar file you create a manifest file to specify the main class that should execute when the jar is executed. You also specify...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Access restriction: The method ... from the type ... is not accessible due to restriction on required library

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Here's a fun one... Got this error suddenly on a Java project in Eclipse that had been working fine previously. Access restriction:...

AWS Cloud Error Logging: EC2 instances, S3, DynamoDB, Alerts

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In the past I have written generic error handlers that log errors by writing out the error stack trace and messages to a format that is more...
Friday, August 23, 2013

AWS SDK: Missing requirements

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If you're having problems installing the AWS SDK for Java : http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava/ Error messages I've Seen: The s...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

NoSQL Databases and Financial Applications

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----- Update: AWS DynamoDB offers consistent reads. One consideration, however, is the need for complex queries or queries with changing cri...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Fun with AWS Architecture

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...or What I did on my summer vacation. OK I only took two days off to review some things I learned in 3 day AWS architecture class... h...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Secure Development

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Notes from Seattle Java User Group meeting 4/17/2013 Secure Development Lifecycle... Addresses 50% of vulnerabilities due to design f...

Secure Coding Principles

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From speaker at Seattle Java User Group #1 Validate all user controlled input 6/10 of OWASP Top vulnerabilities, 14/25 of Mitre/SANS Top...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Authenticating Users with SASL for Postfix

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Authenticating Users with SASL for Postfix Continued from setting up Postfix - SMTP and TLS - on an Amazon Cloud EC2 instance: http://...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

Configuring TLS on Postfix - RedHat AWS EC2 instance - Amazon Cloud

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Please note. This didn't really end up working. Leaving notes for all the things I did get working however. This is old and not recommen...