Trusting self-signed SSL certificates in Cloudera Hue
Using self-signed certificates is an easy process. Its very useful in local test environments, something we often rely on at my work. However, it has its cons when the width of the ecosystem weighs in...
View ArticleAbout a moto-scooter I own
I purchased a Honda Dio moto-scooter in August 2014 last year, mainly for work commute purposes and I’ve been trying to monitor its mileage performance for a while since then. This post is about my...
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Why your mobile data connection may not work on Mi4 (or other MIUI devices)
As a user of Airtel in India, and as a new Xiaomi Mi4 user, I found this issue as I began to use the phone wherein the mobile data connection (Mobile Office APN in Airtel’s case) would connect...
View ArticlePurging away unnecessary local maven repository jars
As someone who works with a lot of Java (or other JVM related) projects, I often notice my $HOME/.m2 local maven cache grows quite big over time. This is due to a natural result of a lot of mvn install...
View ArticleChecking out a git branch when multiple remotes (repos) are involved
When you are dealing with a local git repository which has multiple remotes defined (i.e. has multiple remote repositories possibly carrying the same branches, such as multiple forks), then the right...
View ArticleWriting a simple Kudu Java API Program
This post is about using Cloudera’s new Kudu service, via its Java API interface, in a Maven-based Java program. Kudu ships with a Java client library that is ready to use, and also publishes the Java...
View ArticleOS X El Capitan Upgrade Hangs
Just like it did when I upgraded from OS X Mavericks to OS X Yosemite a year ago, attempting an upgrade from OSX Yosemite to OSX El Capitan hung again in the same nondescript manner – a blank/empty...
View ArticleDuplicating a tab in Safari
If you are a Safari user on Mac OS X, you may have noticed that it lacks a duplicate tab feature (such as the one in Google Chrome, when you right click a tab area). While it would be nice to have this...
View ArticleGNU egrep does not support the \d shorthand
I learnt this the hard way (and said hello to a large living world of non-standard regex implementations). The GNU grep/egrep documentation page documents all their special backslash character support...
View ArticleChecking if your JRE has the Unlimited-strength Policy Files in place
To use the included 256-bit encryption algorithms within Java, Oracle Java JDK or JRE requires you to download and replace the US_export_policy.jar and local_policy.jar files under your...
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