I always try very hard to keep my posts within the main topic of this blog, namely computers in the context of building automation and simulation. Occasionally I fail, like for today’s post. I’d like to tell you about a software company co-founded by a friend and fellow Toastmaster of mine, David Portabella. The company’s […]
As you might know, my primary background stems from the field of academia and research, but over the past years my interests have focused increasingly on software engineering. With the benefit of hindsight, it’s clear to me today that if I had known what I know today about software, I would without doubt have been […]
I spent most of the day today debugging a very mysterious error we encountered when trying to programmatically call a web service over SSL from Java. Here is the source code with which we managed to reliable reproduce the error: import javax.net.SocketFactory; import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory; import java.io.*; import java.net.Socket; public class SimpleSSLTest { public static void […]