Stop repeating yourself. Emails and messages in general often consist of repeated content blocks that never change. Greetings and signatures are perfect examples: some people even try to eliminate such “noise” from messages (for example, the “nohello”-movement). While it is unrealistic that such changes to the human interaction protocol will ever be universally accepted, there is something else a productivity-minded person can do in order to lose less time each day typing the same phrases over and over again. Outlook ...
Measuring code execution times is hard. Learn how to eliminate systematic and random measurement errors and obtain more reliable results. We often need to measure how long a specific part of code takes to execute. Unfortunately, simply measuring the system time before and after a function call is not very robust and susceptible to systematic and random measurement errors. This is especially true for measuring very short intervals (< 100 milliseconds). Systematic and Random Errors So what is wrong with ...
Question: In my Thymeleaf template, I want to output the size of a list of objects. For example, for the list List<String> list = Arrays.asList("Go", "Python", "Scala"); the result should be 3. How is this possible using just Thymeleaf syntax? You can use the following expression: <span th:text="${#lists.size(myList)}">[Number of Elements]</span> And just in case you want to check if the list is empty, there is also an easy method for that: <span th:if="${#lists.isEmpty(myList)}">This list is empty</span> ...
Atlassian’s collaboration tools Jira and Confluence are one of the most popular tools for managing software projects and group knowledge. Learn how to get access to these great tools for free. For the longest time, Atlassian charged 10$ per month per application in their “Standard” tier. While this is basically nothing for an established company, it is still discouraging for start ups and non-profits since it sums up to a bill of 240$ per year for the popular combination Jira ...
GitLab offers to create personal access tokens to authenticate against Git over HTTPS. Using these tokens is a secure alternative to storing your GitLab password on a machine that needs access to your repository. It is also the only way to automate repository access when two-factor authentication is enabled. However, GitLab does a poor job documenting how you actually use these tokens. Create an Access Token Navigate to “User Settings” > “Personal Access Tokens” and enter a name and, optionally, ...
In many git workflows, all changes to your code should eventually end up in the master branch. You may also have a develop branch which contains code changes that are not ready for production deployment yet. For some reason or another, you may end up in a situation where your develop has changed so much that you can no longer easily merge it into master. Most of those reasons suggest bad practices, but such a situation may also arise due ...
Oracle is currently offering an always free tier of its compute cloud. In this article, I will show how to register an account, add the free tier units and connect to them via PuTTY on Windows. What is included? While the offer is actually free for an unlimited time, the following restrictions apply: 2 database services are included (ATP serverless and ADW) limited to 1 OCPU and up to 20 GB 2 compute services (1 GB RAM and 1/8 OCPU ...
Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) style dependencies between individual stages in a continuous deployment pipeline allow for a more flexible workflow and better utilize available computational resources. Imagine a simple pipeline consisting of three jobs: A syntax check A code complexity check Running all unit tests You may be tempted to group those in two stages: A) Build (consisting of jobs 1 and 2) and B) Test (consisting of the unit tests): Traditional Sequences In plain old GitLab pipelines, you would ...
In another article I summarized the series of events that lead to a potentially huge number of iOS devices being overtaken by malicious actors. While increasingly more information about these incidents is revealed, one particularly interesting question should be raised: To what extent is Apple to blame? Fast Reaction Let’s start with the good news. As Project Zero researcher Ian Beer writes, they have informed Apple about two of the exploits on February 1st, 2019. Apple reacted within six days ...
On August 29th 2019, the British security researcher Ian Beer (@i41nbeer) from Project Zero at Google published multiple blog posts about a series of iOS exploits. According to their findings, those exploits have been used to completely take over iOS devices. This article provides focused answers to eleven questions about this series of events. What is the overall impact of this attack? If you used an iOS device (iPhone, iPad, …) in the last two years and visited a certain ...