Setting up a Windows VPN Server on Azure
I recently decided that I wanted to secure all of my network traffic using a VPN. Just search for Edward Snowden and you will come up with a few reasons why ...
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An Ode to Portland
As I get ready to say goodbye to Portland, I wanted to recollect the things that I love about this city where I’ve lived for the past 3 years. To begin with,...
Using the AWS flow framework in a Maven project
Recently, I’ve had to use the SWF flow framework for Java for an existing project using Maven. The developer guide and online examples only talk about using ...
GoodBye Google Reader
Update: Switched to Feedly instead. It automatically syncs all of your google reader subscriptions. Easiest transition ever. Google Reader has been one of t...
How a good day turns bad
I’m in Seattle for a 4-day training course on AWS at Amazon and the weather here is a sunny 75 degrees. Today was the first day of training, I learned a lot ...
WikiPublisher plugin for jenkins
Sometimes, folks other than the developers are interested in the finding out about the different builds and the components (upstream projects) that are in a ...
major.minor plugin for Jenkins
~~Recently, I’ve been tasked with setting up a build environment at work and we decided to go with Hudson and now Jenkins. I think the best part of Jenkins i...
Hard drive fail!
Update:So it turns out that it wasn’t a windows update problem after all. My Samsung hard drive was faulting and had gone bad. Even though the Hard Drive S.M...
Format of SVN access file for Path Based Authorization
Fine grained permissions on SVN repositories can be provided by creating an access file. Following is a sample access file explaining the basic format of the...
Create SVN repositories using a standard folder structure
This is shell script that you can use to create all of your repositories using the same standard folder structure. You need to replace the following variable...
jQuery Formhints plugin
A very simple jquery plugin for showing hints right next to form inputs. This is a jquery adaptation of the excellent javascript & css form hint script h...
CakePHP paginator – Identifying sort direction and column
I love CakePHP’s paginator. Its fairly easy to use and packs a punch of features. The one missing feature, though, is that there is no automagic mechanism to...
Installing SVN server
Install latest Apache http server Install SVN Make sure to install mod_dav_svn and mod_authz_svn. mod_authz_svn is only needed if you p...
Moving repositories/Creating backups in SVN
Recently, I needed to move some projects around in my SVN and it turned out to be very easy, although it took a bit of googling. This also gives you a way to...