Setting Content-Type for multipart/form-data values
I was recently creating a form that submitted two elements at once: a JSON payload, and a file. My back-end kept choking on the JSON payload, »
Farewell, Red Hat friends!
This is an approximate reproduction of the email I sent to my soon-to-be erstwhile Red Hat colleagues: This is a difficult email to write. I’ »
I was involved in a shocking incident and want to talk about mental health - and what we're doing as a country to address it.
This post covers sensitive topics including attempted suicide and mental illness. Please, if you ever have suicidal thoughts, reach out to an organisation such as The »
Introducing asciidoc-admonition-icons, a GitBook plugin to restore font icons for AsciiDoc admonition blocks.
I’ve been working hard on the apiman 1.3.x documentation. One nice feature of AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor are admonition blocks; allowing visually clear and »
Generic JWT policy for apiman
I just pushed an initial (very simple) generic JWT authentication plugin policy to master. It should work with any JWT provider! Let me know how it »
Apiman's New Execute Blocking Component
The Execute Blocking component is a small but potentially useful new component I’ve written and committed to the apiman gateway, allowing custom policy plugin »
Stopping Vert.x BlockedThreadChecker exceptions during interactive debugging
Vert.x’s standard verticles require non-blocking code to work optimally. A watchdog will warn you (extremely insistently) if anything does block for an excessive »
Vert.x and Blocking Code
One of Vert.x’s core tenets is that you should never block the event loop. If you’re writing an application from scratch »
Byteman now available in homebrew
A friend and colleague of mine, Andrew Dinn, is the brains behind the brilliant Byteman project. I recently contributed a brew formula to install Byteman and »
Changing the root-context for apiman's gateway
An apiman user recently asked me how they could change the root context of apiman-gateway from /apiman-gateway/ to something else, for instance /i-love-apiman/. If you’ »