Open-Source and related Stuff
I haven’t been maintaining my fork of the vfsjfilechooser2 project for quite a number of years now. Hence my surprise that somebody opened an issue regarding a ReDS (Regular expression Denial of Service) in the VFSURIValidator class. Thankfully, Yeting Li…
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The Java client that I have developed for our User-friendly Deep Learning project makes use of my requests4j library. Currently, I have a team of students developing an Android app for managing image classification datasets for the UFDL project. But…
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Today, I continued working on my little bootstrapp library for bootstrapping Java applications using Maven dependencies. The main to changes were: Downloading Maven rather than bundling it, decreasing the artifact (and spring-boot-jar) size significantly. Adding experimental support for .deb/.rpm package…
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Maven is a great build tool – once you get used to its XML configuration file and figure what plugins are to be used for what purpose. However, if you only want to build an application from already existing Maven…
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Lately, I’ve been working on a simple data exchange server within my ADAMS framework and for that I also implemented a client library in Python. That was when I realized once again, how amazing the requests library is. How it…
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The maven-dependency-plugin is a great plugin for outputting all kinds of formats of your dependencies. However, I’ve started thinking about introducing a simple package manager for ADAMS (all modules lumped together are becoming a bit too big…) and for that…
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Due to a pull request from mirabilos, adding basic makeglossaries support, I made a new release of the latex-maven-plugin available: 1.4.3
For some reason, my GDrive no longer allowed me to download files, it simply didn’t do anything beyond the “scanning for viruses” screen. Fed up with that, I had a look around and came across the following open source project…
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The latex-maven-plugin plugin for Maven is really awesome. It allows you to write your documentation in LaTeX and it automatically generates PDF documents out of it during the build process (LaTeX needs to be installed, of course). However, the plugin…
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