Spring framework provides a caching abstraction API that makes it very easy and consistent to use a lot of embeddable caching frameworks like, EHCache, Infinispan, Hazelcast etc. But sometimes it is also necessary […]
Spring Boot and WordPress CMS Integration
There are a lot of excellent open source content management systems available today, WordPress being one of them, which is widely used. WordPress is a PHP based CMS so not […]
Using Standalone ActiveMQ Broker with Wildfly
Wildfly is an open source J2EE container, which comes with an embedded HornetQ JMS broker enabled by default in it’s full configuration. The embedded HornetQ works great out of the […]
Protect your identity from SSH servers
Recently I came across a tweet that highlighted a serious privacy issue related to SSH servers and online services that publish user information in public domain without having to explicitly […]
Real-time Web Cam Surveillance with Raspberry-PI
Raspberry PI is a great little tool for building small projects, from personal web servers to robot butlers. With it’s linux core you could potentially use RPI like a regular […]
XMPP web chat with ejabberd, Converse.js and Spring MVC
Converse.js is a fine little XMPP web chat client that can easily be used in web applications. It can integrate with various online XMPP services, like Google Talk, MSN etc. In […]
Organizing Media files on Linux
Recently I was doing some cleanup on my Dropbox account, and I found that some folders (especially “Camera Uploads”) had like a million unorganized images and video files that were […]
Clustering and Load balancing Tomcat servers
Tomcat is by far the most popular open source Java servlet container that can easily be scaled to ensure high availability. In this post I will show how easy it […]
Demise of J2ME
Since the arrival of iOS and Android smartphones, J2ME has really faded into the background. And it is not because iOS and Android are better platforms, it is because J2ME […]
Sharing VPN connection on Linux
Most VPN servers allow a single remote session per user, which is all you need most of the times. But sometimes it is necessary to connect multiple devices to the VPN server; […]