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Notes on application security, API security, identity, and API management from the field. Articles are also published on Medium. Browse the archive by topic instead — 124 subjects.

Part 1: Creating your own SSL certificates for a custom Java client-server application

  • Key Management
  • PKI
  • TLS / SSL

If you replace the steps for creating your own CA private key & certificate and signing your own certificate (with the CA) with having certificates signed by a legitimate Certificate Authority, you've got the basic idea behind creating/ordering certs for most situations.

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Masters Project Defense

  • J2EE / Jakarta EE
  • JBoss
  • Performance Tuning

On November 29, 2007, I gave my Masters Project Defense before Dr. Chris Gill, Dr. Cindy Grimm, and Dr. Roger Chamberlain. This is the presentation. I’m posting it here because it involved analyzing low-level details of a Sun JVM running JBoss 3.x.

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Flying Over Mars

  • Personal

I’ve had this one sitting on the shelf for a while. The last semester of my undergraduate program at Wash U., I created a flight simulator program that could be used to view Martian terrtain data. We created this by grabbing a series of still shots while the flight simulator was running.

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The First 1500 Hamming Numbers

  • JVM Internals
  • Mathematics
  • Memory Management

I haven’t had a chance to post anything here since the beginning of last semester. I’m in a class at the moment where all of the programming assignments involves annoying little math algorithms. The most recent required us to generate the first N hamming numbers using an efficient algorithm that…

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JCup & JFlex With Ant

  • Assembly
  • C / C++
  • Compilers

I’ve been bogged down in work and school lately. So, it has been a while since I’ve written anything. This semester I’m taking an Instruction Set Architecture course at Wash U–basically, the final project is to design a processor with VHDL in ModelSim. I think I’m going to stick to software.…

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