A noob geek. Application developer @ IBM. Loves Linux. Uses Ubuntu. Android advocate. Fond of +rw but seldom has time 4 both. (My views are mine alone.) 😎😋🤖
What is with this Hello World? A lot of people are probably wondering why a fresh WordPress install comes with the familiar Hello World! post. For the non-techies, non-programmers and also for ...
Books Love to read books. When I was still in Primary and Secondary I must’ve read every one of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series that the school libraries had on its shelves. Later I would go on to read titles from big authors like Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, and Dan Brown...
…and I am officially loving it! I think I might have found my next Linux distro. NO. I have found my next Linux distro. The Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus on my personal laptop is getting way too old for comfort. LTS (Long Term Support) it may be, but I think it will be EOL by...
Going to skip right away to the juicy stuff as much as I can. I won’t discuss about what OpenShift is or what the Secrets feature does. This is only about my experience the first time I dealt with Secrets and how I used it for a Spring Boot Kafka consumer/client application. The problem I...
For the last 3 days I have been messing around with Google ChromeOS on a HP Notebook – 15–ay190nia on loan to me for a week. It has been fun so far. Though it’s not all smiles and giggles all the way as it should be, since the hardware on this old thing kind of limits me,...
Something I encounter every now and then on application deployments. This is common especially on the first time you commit/push your code to your Git repository with CI/CD configured. Might have labeled or titled this article wrongly. The error does not happen when the app container is being created on OpenShift. It does not even...
Well, I installed Viber for the Linux desktop today. Yet again. I remember installing it not so long ago only to end up uninstalling it straight away because the application window looked disproportionately huge on my Ubuntu 16.04. The issue is still present now. Describing it, below are a few of what I noticed when...
So I wrote a review about this place – Avida CityFlex Towers @ Bonifacio Global City – on Google Maps that people would know what I thought about it, my experiences, and how I truly felt. It was a mixed feeling overall. I did not feel happy or sad about that place in the end....
Ever since I started reading books, learning about and seeing pictures of places from all around the world, and watching these sites on TV/video or the Internet, I have always had this burning desire to travel there myself, to set foot on these lands and witness it with my own eyes. As of this very...
A “Thanksgiving experience” in World of Warcraft. 🦃 I’ve been a sucker for WOW world events lately. The idea of adding more titles to my toon’s name seems to be appealing. Plus if Blizzard is being nice, they usually include a pet as a consolation once you get to do all the achievements required for...
In the shadows The long narrow pass, where at it’s mouth stood the 2nd Alliance bunker in Alterac Valley, was devoid of Horde activity. So far so good. Crouched and shadowmelded, with some trees for a little cover, I waited a few more seconds just to make sure not a group of Horde scouts were...
Tired of using your valid email accounts for registration in various web sites? Maybe it’s just a message board you want to read one time only and from which you don’t want to be saddled with a lifetime of spam. The convention is just to sign up for Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or other free web...
Nintendo Switch‘s Send to Smartphone feature as a way to share screenshots and videos from Album to smartphone keeps on failing to connect. 🙅 I don’t know why. I must have tried this three or four times, but each time it would fail to work. This sucks! 🙄 I have a Samsung A52 phone with...
I had this issue with Spotify on Android Auto recently. The Spotify app was working on my phone yet somehow it would not show on my Mazda’s head unit display. Spotify was working fine on my Samsung A52 phone that time I connected it. In fact, I can still select songs from the phone and...
Have not posted here for a while. Been busy for the last month or so. Can’t let this go by without writing an advanced Happy New Year post 😝. So the Year 2021 is almost over. Soon. In a few hours. It has been a hell of a year. Here’s to hoping the next one...
Had a day of relaxation at the beach last weekend – Sunday, November 21. This was at a beach resort at one of the southern tips of Batangas. It’s in the title by the way. About a two and a half hour drive from Metro Manila. Make that three with short stops in between. Was...
What is this outdated notification? The quick answer is that it is a warning text shown somewhere on the web page that says the article was written on – insert old date here – and the information in the content may be out of date. This may be kind of redundant when your article has...
How indeed? By simply attending Amazon Web Services (AWS) events. That’s it? Yes! No hacks. No scams. Nothing shady. 100% legit. Once I completed the event and a few requirements, AWS gave me credits. These AWS Credits can then be redeemed and used for their products and services. For my needs it pretty much takes...
And this is for Linux only. There is no short way to do this. It is not supported directly through the AWS Console where I can just push buttons and click away. It took SSH-ing to my Linux server. Typing in some terminal commands. Starting/stopping my EC2 instance a couple of times. However, it is...
(… and Android Auto on Samsung A52 / Android 11) The Mazda Connect Navigation System on my 2019 Mazda 2 1.5L A/T Hatchback stopped functioning this year (2021). I cannot remember exactly when or which month, but it was definitely closer to its 2nd periodic maintenance schedule (PMS) which happens in the middle of each...
Consider a List of Color objects with attributes of index, name and group. This object is defined as, Group is simply an Enum of, My list of colors are the following, Now, I want to divide these colors into their own sub-lists of color grouping based on the value of the object’s Group attribute. Traditionally,...
It is not uncommon for a Java application to have a number of properties that needs to be defined for it to to run smoothly at start. While these configurable parameters that are required by the app can be set in the code, placing those outside is a more logical and cleaner approach. Things like...
It Stutters Yes, it does. Badly. The lag is very noticeable and happens a lot of times. I cannot even just turn a blind eye on it and pretend there is no stutter. Because it does. Granted there are moments where everything goes smoothly. Not buttery smooth still. Yet, when I’ve gone on a string...
Say I have these numbers in an array, for example: I want to do something with that set of numbers, such as taking out null values, and extracting only the odd ones. Too take it further, maybe I want an even number or two mixed in the processed list as well. So I have this...
Did a simple, customized SQL query builder that’s only specific for UPDATE statements some time early last year. Thought I’d just write it down here. It was a smaller part of a bigger application. It wasn’t required for all update cases, but a number of them did. I’ve mostly re-written it from memory. It should...
I recently started on the path on building content on the fly that gets sent out as soon as possible, using a template engine, but from a back-end perspective. If that makes sense? This is for an event-driven application that sits there and listens for incoming messages. A simple one. Consume the message as soon...
From time to time I get some of this odd API response from requesting information for a specific something. I expect the response data to be a simple JSON object. Instead I am looking at a JSON array. I suppose that is still simple enough and it’s not so odd. This kind of response happens...
