Training as a Tool of Delegation
Delegating without empowering is a recipe for disappointment. Show your team members how to do the task at hand and your job becomes easier
Career
View more5 Years Experience in 3
In life, very few things trump “I’ve done it before”, this is how to get a 5 years worth of experience in 3 and maximise your employment
One Year at Cellulant
This is a tell-tale of my 1 year tenure at Cellulant. I solve challenges like too many meetings, knowledge democratisation, revamping of the SDLC, pull request reviews, onboarding process and more.
Life
View moreIdeas With No Coins
Sometimes the coins make all the difference - between those who took-off and those who crash on the runway of entrepreneurship. The hustler’s poem
Read this before You Quit - and Think Twice
Life can be tough, great men do fall. Whatever comes our way, we must not quit for many - known and unknown - are dependent on our success
Technology
View moreHow to Encrypt and Decrypt Data using RSA in Java
A practical guide on how to encrypt and decrypt data using the RSA algorithm in Java. We will also see how we can generate an RSA key pair and convert it to and from Base64
Spring Boot API Key Authentication
This article shows how to create a Spring Boot app that requires API key for an endpoint using Spring Security. We also demonstrate how to combine this with other authentication mechanisms in the same codebase.
Introduction to MVC in Web Development
This article explains the MVC design pattern in a simple and easy to understand manner. We explored the Model, View and Controller component separately with a diagram to show the flow of a typical HTTP request in a MVC web application
How to Generate a HMAC Signature in Java
In this article, we will examine how to generate HMAC signature for a given data or message in Java with an example using the HMAC-SHA256 algorithm