For better or worse, passwords are central to the safety of almost all our online accounts. 2-factor authentication systems are meant to protect users from compromise of their passwords. However, not all services support it. Also, several online services (including banks), use OTP sent over SMS as the second factor. This has several vulnerabilities and has been deprecated by NIST. That leaves password as a critical piece of these accounts’ security.
Prepared statements are the best way to avoid SQL injections in applications accepting user input. However they require an additional round-trip to prepare the query, which increases latency when your queries are dynamic and the statements are not re-used. PostgreSQL allows execution of such queries without the additional cost!
Quiz time. How many threads (other than main) will this program create on a
dual-core machine?
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
CompletableFuture.runAsync(() -> {
System.out.println(currentThread().getName());
}).join();
}
}
}
The rule of thumb for equity investments is to not time the market, but there are also several analyses correlating investing at high index PE levels with lower returns. So can we use the PE levels of indices to generate better returns than SIP and reduce volatility of the portfolio?
One of the weaknesses of Go’s runtime today is the relatively naive GC implementation. This is evident from go performing consistently worse than most other languages in the binary trees benchmark. However, the language can make designing programs that reduce GC cost fairly straightforward.
When working with object-oriented languages, there are many instances when one would want to implement an interface re-using code from another implementation of the interface. While inheritance will work, it couples the new implementation to the specific other implementation. Composition with delegation will be a better way of doing this.
I’ve recently started getting my head around Git having been a Subversion (sadly even CVS) user all along. While I liked the fact that it was distributed and way faster than Subversion at most operations, I couldn’t understand why many claimed it was better at merging than Subversion (1.5 and above). Even the “Branch Handling” section in Git’s wiki talks only about better history tracking but not about how Git is better at merging the content themselves.
Every web application has elements common to all its pages which are good candidates for re-use. While Spring MVC provides integration with Tiles, it can be an overkill for simple applications and needs using Spring’s client side JS library for AJAX (correct me if I’m wrong).
Let’s consider the below Game class in a guessing game where a random target is chosen by the system and the user guesses the target. The system returns an appropriate message based on whether the guess was higher, lower or equal to the random target.
Java 6 allows you to execute and communicate with scripts written in any scripting language, using the Scripting API. However, the code needed to create a ScriptEngine and evaluate a set of script files within it, is quite verbose and throws several checked exceptions.
All opinions are my own. Copyright 2005 Chandra Sekar S.