In order to test how an ObjectHub Micro App can be packaged as a PhoneGap application, I used PhoneGap Build to package up a simple application. Unfortunately, the application that I developed started off with a big, ugly black screen instead of a splash screen. It took me quite some
It's always a good idea to test the speed of your Internet connection after getting a new router of Internet provider. However, my Internet connection sometimes becomes mysteriously slow. In that case, it is great to verify that is a problem with the Internet connection or maybe with
firebase
Firebase is build on the assumption that it will only be initialized once. This can be a problem in Node.JS applications sometimes, especially if they are run as part of an Amazon Lambda function. This can lead to errors as the following: Firebase App named '[DEFAULT]' already
mysql
Today I discovered that one of my servers mysteriously ran out of disk space. I ran the following Linux command to find all the biggest files and folders on the server: sudo du -a / | sort -n -r | head -n 100 ... and found that it was the binary logs used for
aws
A quick Google search reveals that there are quite a few different approaches for automatically creating snapshots for EC2 images (such as here, here and here). All of these are rather difficult to do. Thankfully, after some more searching around I found a great way to schedule regular snapshots using
maven
Maven creates and checks MD5 checksums at various times. For instance, when downloading an artifact from a repository, Maven checks whether the checksum of the downloaded files (e.g. POM, JAR) is correct. I am uploading Maven artifacts manually to a very simple, file-based repository. This requires me to calculate
aws
Today I came across the following exception while working with the AWS SDK for Amazon Lambda: com.amazonaws.AmazonServiceException: Cross-account pass role is not allowed. (Service: AWSLambda; Status Code: 403; Error Code: AccessDeniedException; Request ID: xxx) At first I was a bit puzzled where this exception might come from; but
aws
According to a recent article on the New Stack Blog, the Amazon Serverless Team (responsible for instance for Amazon Lambda) is about to release a new open source product called 'Floruish'. Currently, there are very few details available on this product. These are some points I could find:
aws
Using bucket policies, it is easy to set ACL settings for all new objects that are uploaded to Amazon S3. However, I wanted to remove 'public' read rights for a whole bunch of objects at the same time and such policies do not apply to objects that are
JQuery UI Droppable is a great framework for implementing drag and drop features in a web application. Here I will show two ways how it can be prevented that multiple droppable elements on the same page can receive the same drop events. If the one droppable is the parent of
ec2
The most recent version of the Amazon Linux VMI (2015.09.1) seems to install version 2 of Puppet by default. However, if you need to install Puppet 3, that is also easy enough. Just type in the following to install it: sudo yum install puppet3 If any errors pop
I like to organize my files by prefixing the current date and time to the file name. Yes, sorting files by date created and date modified more or less accomplishes the same thing but I just find it to be more organized this way. I've spent countless hours
