It was was mid 2013 when i first tried to run the JavaFX samples under OS X, in fact, there’s still a draft post around here in which i wanted to describe the steps necessary to run that stuff with ant and how to use Maven to build an app. Well back then i played […]
I was recently in need of a java implementation of the inverted normal distribution function, named “NORMINV” in Excel 2003 and later: NORMINV. I only found a JavaScript implementation in kmpm’s repository norminv.js. It has quite a history, coming over C# from C++. I have the impression nobody wants to deal with the mathematics 😉 […]
Java Authentication and Authorization Service aka JAAS is a pretty neat way to build a pluggable authentication mechanism for a Java application. My goal was to build a Single Sign-on (SSO) mechanism targeted on Windows machines (Windows XP SP3, Windows 7) that uses the cached kerberos ticket. The jaas configuration should be pretty simple: name_of_the_login_context […]
Here is some Java stuff I’ve written over the last year for Daily Fratze. All of the stuff is in use on Daily Fratze since June 2011. java-akismet java-akismet is a simple client for Akismet based on the latest version of Apache HttpComponents. java-oembed I really like the idea of oEmbed: A mechanism for auto […]
MySQL has an aes_encrypt/aes_decrypt pair of functions (Encryption and Compression Functions) that enable encryption and decryption of data using the official AES algorithm. The functions are easy to use (select AES_ENCRYPT(‘text’,’password’)) and the result is easy to store (insert into secrets values HEX(AES_ENCRYPT(‘text’,’password’))) as hex values. I used this technique for a while but i […]