The Irregular Journal of a Pseudo-Random Software Engineer
Finally the time has come. I had been avoiding it for years. I cannot escape it anymore. Finally the time has come to learn and embrace TypeScript. I am developing a small proof of concept mobile app at work. Creating mobile apps, especially hybrid ones, is not a big task anymore. Only this time instead of […]
puts "Hello, #{first_name}. What are you upto today?"puts "Hello, #{first_name}. What are you upto today?" console.log (`Hello, ${firstName}. What are you upto today?`)console.log (`Hello, ${firstName}. What are you upto today?`) So, I am learning Ruby these days. You have heard of this book, haven’t you? Learn Ruby the Hard Way. Me? I found it only […]
Say with me, “ASP.NET Web API allows only one body parameter in POST”. And again, “ASP.NET Web API allows only one body parameter in POST”. Now repeat it 100 times. It’s tiresome and probably utterly unnecessary. But that’s the only way to remember it. Believe me. I keep falling in the trap and repeating the […]
I never imagined this day would come. I am finally trying to catch up with the RoR phenomenon. And I am at least 8-10 years late. Teaching enterprise software development made me appreciate a strict adherence to coding best practices even more. That’s where Rail’s philosophy got me interested, especially its Convention over Configuration doctrine. What […]
Redis is a high-performance in-memory database that is often used for data caching on server-side. The redis npm package makes is nice & easy to use Redis to cache data in a Node app. If you are new to Redis, you will find this tutorial on Coligo helpful in implementing data caching in your own […]
This post is not a tutorial, just some thoughts on the topic. There are plenty of tutorials out there that talk about protecting your RESTful Node/Express based APIs using some form of token-based authentication. Some of them are pretty straightforward to follow, some not. But most of them have one thing in common — delegating the […]
You follow the official WordPress migration documentation and still end up with the dreaded internal server error. This little incident launches you into panic mode. You spend the next 30-60 mins googling a fix for this godforsaken situation. Most of the solutions you come across mention something about fixing/deleting your .htaccess file. Alas, that doesn’t work […]
So I’m playing around with opentaps these days. It runs pretty neatly in Linux. Simply executing a shell script it comes with autostarts a built-in Tomcat server and runs the darn thing without a hitch. opentaps under Windows is another animal! Although opentaps comes with a similar batch script for Windows, the thing doesn’t run […]
I have been away from developments in the larger Linux world since quite some time. I’m not a distrohopper any more. I’ve kinda settled down on my (childhood) favorite openSUSE. I’d installed version 13.1 about two years ago on my brand new laptop. A few days ago I decided to update my KDE 4 to Plasma […]
Here I am. With Arvixe. After 8 years with DreamHost, I made the move to save money. Shit loads of money. Hosting with DreamHost was a smooth and wonderful but expensive journey. Their support and technical expertise are unmatched, things that came in pretty handy while hosting a Linux distro (Granular, remember?). In its heydays, […]