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Cumulative and compounding effects are poorly perceived by us, so is our understanding of micro behaviours (not to be confused with micro-optmisation) that have impact on large outcomes. I read the following story in the book ‘You can win’ by Shiv Khera which had many short stories that stay in mind for a long time. […]
15 September 2019
Exhibiting Movies in Office
Many times, I received requests from colleagues and friends seeking legal opinion on showing a movie in their office premises. In most of the situations, it may be an exhibition of a documentary or a short film of social significance to a small gathering of employees. As a basic legal principle, a copyright is created...
15 September 2019
Add Redux custom middleware dynamically
Redux middlewares can be used for a variety of things. You can basically tap into a redux event and perform some action with it. Logging…
13 September 2019
Start nginx when upstream is unavailable
Upstreams in Nginx is an nginx directive to define groups of servers. Servers can listen on differnt ports, and it is possible to mix and…
13 September 2019
Dealing with SOAP in clojure
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) SOAP brings its own protocol and focuses on exposing pieces of application logic (not data) as services…
13 September 2019
Asynchronous calls in React component
All network calls that are necessary to load data needed by the component should go inside From React docs componentDidMount() is invoked…
13 September 2019
Flyway migrations in lein clojure
Leiningen is the easiest way to start with clojure project automation. The project under discussion is a webservices written in clojure…
13 September 2019
Card slider using CSS Keyframes
CSS Keyframes is a powerful feature to create animations in CSS. Below is a small snippet I created for slider like animation. Most of the…
13 September 2019
Storing a function in the Redux store
Redux is a predictable state container for Javascript. Redux state has to be serializable all the time. Object serialization is the process…
13 September 2019
Mock toLocaleString in Jest
We had to use with a specific country-code. . This works perfectly in all the browsers. However, not in jest tests. Our Jest tests were…
13 September 2019
Spring security session timeouts
Using Spring security we were building an application which has 2 types of users Internal and External. Our requirement was Internal and…
13 September 2019
Angular resource and http interceptor
Once you set up your project with angular and ngResource you will be able to access $resource object. $resource will serve as a factory…
13 September 2019
Post browser logs to server in an Angular app
We were looking for an efficient way of capturing all the Javascript errors from browsers in our backend so it appears in our Kibana…
13 September 2019
Expanding Amazon EBS Volume in a EC2 instance.
I had an AWS image which was created using an EC2 instance of size 8 GB. Whenever i try to launch an instance i usually change the storage…
13 September 2019
Set deployed Git revision using Capistrano 3
We use Capistrano to deploy our Rails application. Recently i upgraded our capistrano version from 2 to 3 Capistrano 3 has a complete DSL…
13 September 2019
UrlGenerationError after upgrading to Rails 4.2
On upgrading my rails app from 4.0 to 4.2.5 i steeped onto a wierd issue where my form _ for tag breaks and starts throwing exception. A…
13 September 2019
Integrating CKEditor with Rails asset pipeline.
We are using ckeditor in our rails application (Rails 4.2). Number of network calls made by the ckeditor and its plugins are quite alot…
13 September 2019
Deploying Jekyll site for Github pages through rake script
This blog is powered by Jekyll and I use Github pages as web server. Branch structure in Github Github by default publish the contents of…
13 September 2019
Integrating Netflix Hystrix to a Spring Application
After reading Martin Fowler’s Circuit breaker post i thought of implementing the same to my application. While looking for possible…
13 September 2019
Testing APIary using Dredd.
API Blueprint is a documentation-oriented API description language. A couple of semantical assumptions over the plain Markdown. Dredd is a…
13 September 2019