I’ve started to write a simple plugin to analyse gradle projects and send dependency information to a central server. This way I want to get insight into all projects in the company and check if there is some log4j2 dependency below 2.16.0. You can find the code under https://github.com/mbogner/gradle-status-plugin. The plugin was accepted and is […]
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log4j-core until version 2.15.0 has a major security leak that can be exploited by sending prepared strings that are logged with log4j. Potential candidates would be headers or often also simple form fields that are sent to java backends. The CVE can be found here. With a score of 10/10 this should be addressed as
I just had a discussion where I was told that docker-desktop isn’t usable anymore because of their new licensing. So I had a look if docker-desktop is really required. In the end it is just a nicer integration with some desktop app to manage the background vm. I installed virtualbox and set up a vm
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MongoDB supports horizontal scaling by the use of sharding. A sharded cluster consists of 3 parts: Configuration replica set to store metadata Shard replica set(s) Mongos server as a query router that uses metadata from config replica set to query data from the shard(s) Every replica set can consist of primary and secondary instances. Single
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I was looking for a way to validate JSON data structure with the schema saved in the database. PostgreSQL has a very cool way to store json in JSONB fields but the question was how to validate this without extra PostgreSQL plugins and integrated in hibernate’s lifecycle with bean validation. Under https://github.com/mbogner/schema-validator I came up
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After finding a solution for my png files (see here) I was also looking for jpeg and found mozjpeg which is available via brew – like imagemagick and convert. For jpeg files I came up with the following command for optimisation: To use cjpeg from mozjpeg I changed my PATH variable so that mozjpeg comes
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I was looking for a method to optimise my png files for the web and came up with the following command: Convert is a simple but very mighty imagemagick command.
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Angular has support for internationalisation with the @ngx-translate/core module. This and a needed loader can be installed via With this done you need to create a folder src/assets/i18n and place your language json file like en.json in it. Now the translation module and service needs to be configured. Open your app.module.ts file and add the
Sometimes, especially during debugging, it would be helpful to mark single lines in the log in colours. There is a simple way to achieve this with Spring Boot and logback. With this dependency in place you can extend your logger to achieve this. Here a sample setup: This allows you to mark a resource in
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Spring Boot contains a quite nice configuration for logback with color coding and good readability. But it lacks logging MDC (Mapped Diagnostic Context) content. I tried around and found a way to append MDC to every logged line by setting the console pattern in my application.properties/yml under logging.pattern.console to Without any MDC set this adds
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