As a developer, I like to have all my dependencies available locally. When the development environment has a database dependency, my preference has been to connect to a local database. As a developer, this gives me the flexibility to try out just about anything without worrying about the impact it might have on others. It […]
If you read my previous blog post, you would know that I resized my Ubuntu disk image size last week. When I did this exercise, I somehow lost the capability to automatically copy mouse selection to clipboard in the Ubuntu terminal. It is such a useful feature that I felt handicapped without it. I needed […]
VirtualBox has a nasty little habit of suggesting small virtual Hard disk sizes when creating Virtual Machines. I created an Ubuntu image to play around with docker and the default size allocated was 20GB. Within a couple of days, I realized that 20GB is not going to cut it, as the docker images I was […]
So, I got setup with a NAS storage device at home. Since I do a ton of development during my spare time, I wanted to setup a version control system that I can use to store my work. This would serve as a personal repository that I can go to if I wanted to check […]
Age of Empires 1 is one of my favorite games and my first introduction to strategy games. Agree that the game is 2 decades old now, but I consider this as one of the games that has stood the test of time. Even today I see high schoolers getting excited playing this game. One of […]
So, you got your WordPress blog started and a few articles going as well. What is the point of putting content out there without monetization? You should add some ads in there to pay for your bills. In this article I will cover the steps to follow for monetizing your WordPress blog. As a pre-requisite […]
Below are some useful windows Keyboard Shortcuts that would help you complete your tasks faster using keyboard rather than using the mouse. Press the “Windows Key” and the letter “d” simultaneously to minimize all the windows. Press the “Windows Key” and the letter “e” simultaneously to open up windows explorer. Press the “Windows Key” and the […]
So, you are trying to run an applet or a java web start application delivered over the browser. Your applet/application needs to perform some privileged operation such as reading local resources or writing to a file. The jvm sandbox security wouldn’t allow you to perform these operations. In order to do this, your applet/application jar […]