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  • Spring Security: Role vs Authority

    It’s actually quite a simple difference but there are websites and even the Spring source-code that name things badly and that makes it confusing. So the gist is: Let’s take a look at Spring’s Authentication interface: So, given some User that contains these authorities: Now all of these checks will succeed:

  • Sync Google Contacts with Outlook

    Sync Google Contacts with Outlook

    It has always made me crazy that Outlook doesn’t provide a built-in mechanism to sync with contact providers such as Google. I mean, for how many years do people own smartphones and manage their contacts primarily through them? Anyways, today I found a great tool that actually does the job pretty well: https://sourceforge.net/projects/googlesyncmod/ Installation was…