The Almighty Service Layer

Some time ago, I wrote a post in which I basically said that MVC and other similar programming patterns are…

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Class JavaDocs Should Be Mandatory in OOP

I’ll admit, the title is a bit of a lie. I actually believe JavaDocs are necessary everywhere: methods, attributes and…

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Clientside Search With ElasticLunr.js

Any blog or documentation website needs Search functionality. You can achieve this in many ways, and most likely a server-side…

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Self-Protecting Projects

I was once attenting a presentation on the topic “Front-End Development”. The talk was held by a senior developer who,…

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Hide It All!

In an earlier post, I wrote the following words: in an object-oriented codebase the kit should be as discrete as…

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Polymorphic Input/Output Data

When developing any kind of code interface, whether it is an elegant object oriented package or one of those ugly…

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Apache Payara: Let’s Encrypt

Some time ago, I wrote a small tutorial on how you can generate Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates and install them…

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Builder As A (Fail-Fast) State Machine

This is an idea that came to me a few weeks ago while designing a “Generator” class that had to…

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An Extension To TellDontAsk

More than five years go, Martin Fowler pinpointed one of the biggest problems in Object-Oriented Programming in his famous TellDontAsk…

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