Using rlimit (And Why You Should)

I’ve been going through some old notes and came across a reminder of setrlimit(2). This is a C system call…

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Getting A List of Available Cryptographic Algorithms

How do you learn what cryptographic algorithms are available to you? The Java spec names several required ciphers, digests, etc.,…

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Getting an Infinite List of Primes in Java

A common problem is to determine the prime factorization of a number. The brute force approach is trial division (Wikipedia,…

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Fibonacci and Lucas Sequences

This posts touches on three of my favorite topics – math, transferring knowledge through experience (tutorial unit tests) and the…

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Do You Have Tutorial Unit Tests?

I haven’t posted much recently because I’ve been busy with my new job. This brings up an interesting question –…

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Creating Maven Source and Javadoc Artifacts

Many people are aware of maven source and javadoc artifacts but don’t know why they would want to create them.…

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Creating Sonarqube Projects

Sonarqube (nee Sonar) is da bomb. It’s not something you have to check daily but if you’re serious about quality…

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The Definitive Guide to Coding Style Standards

I’ve been rereading Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) and Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software) and came across a discussion of coding…

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Project Student: Maintenance Webapp (editable)

This is part of Project Student. Other posts are Webservice Client With Jersey, Webservice Server with Jersey, Business Layer, Persistence…

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