Allen Chee

Allen is a software developer working in the banking domain. Apart from hacking code and tinkering with technology, he reads a lot about history, so that mistakes of the past need not be repeated if they are remembered.

Core Java
Allen CheeApril 1st, 2014
1 272
Base64 in Java 8 – It’s Not Too Late To Join In The Fun
Finally, Java 8 is out. Finally, there’s a standard way to do Base64 encoding. For too long we have been…
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Software Development
Allen CheeDecember 11th, 2013
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Insidi-DoS: Internally negotiated, self-image-damaging DoS
What’s more damning and ego-bruising than an external DoS (denial of service) attack? Why, an internally inspired one of course.…
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Core Java
Allen CheeMarch 15th, 2013
0 215
Cryptography Using JCA – Services In Providers
The Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) is an extensible framework that enables you to use perform cryptographic operations. JCA also promotes…
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Enterprise Java
Allen CheeNovember 14th, 2012
3 878
Embedding HSQLDB server instance in Spring
I was using XAMPP happily for development until I had to host it somewhere accessible via the Internet for the…
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Enterprise Java
Allen CheeNovember 10th, 2012
1 201
Spring 3.1 – Loading Properties For XML Configuration From Database
Spring makes it easy to inject values obtained from properties files via its PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer and (pre-Spring 3.1) PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer (Spring 3.1).…
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Android Core
Allen CheeOctober 17th, 2012
1 92
Turbo-charge your Android emulator for faster development
I came across an article, which claims to boost the Android emulator’s performance using Intel’s Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM)…
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Base64 in Java 8 – It’s Not Too Late To Join In The Fun

Insidi-DoS: Internally negotiated, self-image-damaging DoS

Cryptography Using JCA – Services In Providers

Embedding HSQLDB server instance in Spring

Spring 3.1 – Loading Properties For XML Configuration From Database

Turbo-charge your Android emulator for faster development

Thank you!