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 always comes with the familiar Hello World! post. For the non-techies, non-programmers and ...
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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,...
I had this custom page on my WordPress site where I would show only posts from a specific category. This was done manually, as in I PHP-coded a function into one of the theme’s PHP files to accept a shortcode, so it would do what I wanted it to. There is a big chance that...
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. Error message looks something like: ./gradlew: Permission denied The Build stage will fail at this point because gradlew gets a permission denied error and therefore cannot...
Ever wondered why after installing that Ubuntu Snap application on your desktop, initially the icon is shown correctly as it should be on the Unity Dash or the Unity Launcher when you locked it there. But subsequently, the icon DOES NOT load properly after the next reboots? To put it accurately, it goes away and...
There are 2 ways that I know of. I tend to always do what is easier. That is through the GUI application that is Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Option 1 Login into Microsoft SQL Server. Select the database. Go to Security. It usually is down at the bottom. Click on the yellow folder...
I was writing a Kafka consumer application for a proof-of-concept (POC) project recently when I got into this weird de-serialization behavior, where when it reached a certain field there would always be an error no matter what. This is even though, and I checked repeatedly, that the Kafka producer was serializing and publishing the object...
This is Mochi. She is my 2-month old Shih Tzu puppy (at the time of this post). A teenie-weenie cutie furball who just eats, sleep and run around the house all day long, while I chase after her constantly trying to get the last item she has got in her mouth. Which reminds me that...
Jose (hoh-seh). The ‘J’ is what they call silent, yet funnily enough, it is replaced with the sound of the letter ‘h’ instead. Both the ‘o’ and the ‘e’ are short, as if you were exhaling. There are no diacritics on any letter as well. This is the normal Filipino pronunciation of my name which...
First one is a shot of the Singapore central business district at night. I’m not sure where in particular I took this photo. I think it might have been at one of the waterfront promenades. While taking an evening stroll in one of the countless times that I’ve spent around this area, it is such...
So I am involved in this project currently where the project architect suggested that we follow HATEOAS-driven RESTful web service. This is probably something I have read about before, but didn’t really pay much attention to, or I simply forgot. Learning something new is always fun. Well, most of the time it is. It depends...
Rediscovered this really cool app named scrcpy recently. I think I’ve read about it before but never bothered about it. Until now. Because my needs have changed and I actually have a use case for this app now. More on that later down there. scrcpy – Now that is just a weird name. Need I...
