Controlling inbound and outbound Windows firewall rules from the command line
The following short article explains how to use Netsh command line scripting utility to add or delete inbound and outbound Windows firewall rules. [Read more…]
How to query Google Cloud Platform Natural Language API using cURL in PHP (example code)
The following short example shows a simple example of how to query Google Natural Language API by posting JSON as text using cURL in PHP. [Read more…]
How to create a spell check enabled MySQL query by leveraging SOUNDEX and Levenshtein Distance algorithms
Recently I came across a situation where I needed to perform the MySQL search in such way, that it would account for typos in user search queries. For example, if the database of words in MySQL contained only the word “assistance” and the user typed the misspelled word “asistence”, I had to be able to return the correct word “assistance” as a closest possible suggestion from the database. It seemed like a trivial task at first, but it took me quite a while to figure the SQL query that had a good balance between performance and overal quality of results. [Read more…]
Electronic Monitoring in Workplace and Ethical Dilemmas of Corporate Policy Documents
The technology is dramatically amending our workplaces. In this post, I touch on ethical dilemmas associated with electronic surveillance of employees. [Read more…]
Is 100% cloud computing uptime SLA a real possibility?
Recently I got asked about my views on Amazon AWS and their 100% redundant cloud computing SLA. Here is a couple of notes I took on the subject… [Read more…]
Addressing Company Growth by Migrating to Public Cloud PaaS Services
I examine a hypothetical scenario of a growing medium size company that is planning to migrate to a cloud environment. I suggest an Amazon AWS cloud service as a possible solution and also cover deployment models as well as some very high-level implementation details and benefits of cloud PaaS services. [Read more…]
Why we cite the work of others and what constitutes a good referencing source?
The following short post contemplates some of the often asked questions connected with referencing and discusses the importance of referencing in general.
Successful research and its three most important characteristics
In this article, I offer a couple of thoughts on what I believe to be the three most significant aspects of the successful research. I talk briefly about the definition of research first, then concentrate on describing the main characteristics and their importance. [Read more…]
How to move RDP to a different port on Windows 10
The following article is a short visual on how to move remote desktop on Windows 10 from the default port 3389 to any other available port.
Java for Beginners 8 – Creating a Multi-User Application
With the recent fast adoption of Internet and cloud environments, the focus of software development shifted from building single user type applications, into a realm of constructing software capable of handling numerous local or remote users. The core benefit of multi-user applications lies in their capacity to tolerate synchronized access from simultaneous users. Other advantages often include the ability to support different types of desktop and mobile devices using a variety of operating systems. [Read more…]
How to Clone GitHub project into NetBeans
I am not using NetBeans myself but had to work with it on one of the projects. Here is a short guide on how to clone Github project into NetBeans.
How to dump and convert Aspell dictionary to wordlist or searchable MySQL/MariaDB database
The following post outlines the process of converting Aspell language dictionary for any language into Mysql or MariaDB database. [Read more…]
Java for Beginners 7 – Abstract Classes and Interfaces
The Java recognizes the limited nature of abstract classes and interfaces and their inability to become an object or a traditional class. Nevertheless, it is the absence of the qualities above and the ability to use abstract classes in various objects that proves to be incredibly useful to developers. In this article, I briefly outline the possible application of abstract classes and interfaces as well as provide examples to highlight the contrast between them.
Java for Beginners 6 – Using mathematical methods (Simple Java Program)
In this article, I illustrate the process of writing a simple Java program. [Read more…]
How to remove hard returns and clean duplicate records from MySQL/MariaDB database
It happens from time to time that we have duplicate queries in our database Unique index type tables that are caused by difficult to detect carriage returns. The following method cleans up the database by first removing the hard returns, and then by removing the duplicates. [Read more…]
