Sarel, a Pragmatic Programmer

Hasn’t it always just seemed wrong that you have to buy both an Authenticode and a Java Code Signing certificate? That might just be a thing of the past.
There’s a very thorough guide here that describes how you can convert a Java cert to an Authenticode cert.
http://tjworld.net/software/codesigning/
The link to download the needed tools is broken, [...]

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I saw quite a few posts about people looking for the source code for the class RMIHttpToCGISocketFactory for varying different reasons. A favorite request is to change the path to the CGI script it requests which is by default: /cgi-bin/java-rmi.cgi.
Anyway, it’s available from the openjdk project. You have to sign up for a free java.net [...]

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Somebody told me once about a computer science professor that would not help his students solve a programming problem until they have explained their problem to The Teddy Bear and they still did not have their answer. You might think that The Teddy Bear was code-speak for something, but it was actually just that: a [...]

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