Since this is the beginning of the new year and all, I decided to learn something new. This time its Kubernetes and like any beginner, I started by installing Minikube. The system that I am running on is Microsoft Surface Pro 4. The hypervisor of choice is Hyper-v which is... View Article
If you have used a laptop with the Page Up and Page Down layout like the picture on the right and you do a lot of coding or any text editing on your laptop, then you may have the same issue as I do. I’m not sure why the hardware... View Article
The vanishing emails to iCloud has got to be one of the most frustrating experience. Here is how to fix it.
I had the pleasure of migrating a wordpress site from a shared hosting into a VPS (Virtual Private Server) instance. The motivation behind it is to have greater resources and to be able to do more server level optimisations. Plus it allows me to use letsencrypt secure certificate. The experience... View Article
I recently purchased the iPad Pro 10.5 to replace the surface pro 4 that I’ve been using for more than a year. The Surface Pro 4 is an amazing device, make no mistake. However the battery life has dropped and windows update keeps forcing me to restart my machine. This makes the Surface Pro 4 a... View Article
Zero down time deployment, sounds like a pretty cool jargon for me and it will impress a few people out there. However, what is it really? How do we do it? That’s the question that I was asking and what you should be asking if you are working on high... View Article
Just today I encountered an annoying error when I started my Vagrant boxes today. I thought my box was corrupted and thus I tried re-provisioning a couple times. This does not help at all. The errors that I was having was “HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter #3 Failed to attach the... View Article
One of the most annoying issues that happened to all of my machines after upgrading to Windows 10 is that I started getting VirtualBox errors as soon as I started to a virtual machine via Vagrant. This is an issue since most of my projects are developed using Vagrant. After... View Article
Sometimes circumstances dictates what tools you can use for software development whether it’s due to vendor agreement, funding or simply organisation standard. Although in my opinion, ideally PHP and JS software development are done under Linux or Mac (if you need to test iOS related things), in some cases we have... View Article
Contributed by Arthur K Continuing from part 1, we will now setup Apache Ant, Android SDK and prepare our first application. Apache Ant The easiest way to install Ant is using “npm install –g ant”, but somehow on my machine it only installed version 1.8.4 and would not work with current JDK version... View Article