Feb 17, 2020 from Randall Degges The Only Type of API Services I'll Use I love API services. It still feels magical each time I query an endpoint and get back some interesting data or cause some complicated functionality to occur. I’ve built my entire career (and hobbi...
Feb 17, 2020 from Randall Degges The Only Type of API Services I'll Use I love API services. It still feels magical each time I query an endpoint and get back some interesting data or cause some complicated functionality to occur. I’ve built my entire career (and hobbi...
Jan 17, 2020 from Randall Degges My Personal Financial Strategy I’ve always been fascinated by money: how people earn it, spend it, and invest it. What fascinates me most about personal finance is how personal it is. Everyone has different goals and desires, an...
Jan 17, 2020 from Randall Degges My Personal Financial Strategy I’ve always been fascinated by money: how people earn it, spend it, and invest it. What fascinates me most about personal finance is how personal it is. Everyone has different goals and desires, an...
Nov 01, 2019 from twilweb CLI and REST API for activemq ActiveMQ provides an easy to use api that can be used to produce or consume messages via commandline. See ActiveMQ site for detailed post. Simple command to post to a queue : curl -XPOST -d "body=<...
Nov 01, 2019 from twilweb SimpleDateFormatter is not thread-safe Having been bitten by this bug multiple times, i am posting a small program that illustrates Thread Safety issues in using SimpleDateFormatter from java . import java.text.ParseException; import ...
Jan 26, 2018 from Randall Degges Please Stop Using Local Storage Seriously. Just stop it already. I don’t know what it is, exactly, that drives so many developers to store session information in local storage, but whatever the reason: the practice needs to die o...
Jan 26, 2018 from Randall Degges Please Stop Using Local Storage Seriously. Just stop it already. I don’t know what it is, exactly, that drives so many developers to store session information in local storage, but whatever the reason: the practice needs to die o...
Jan 21, 2018 from Randall Degges How EU Cookie Law Myths Affect Web Security Over the last few years you might have noticed banners like this one popping up on a lot of web pages: These banners are a direct result of the passage of the EU directive, sometimes known as the C...
Jan 21, 2018 from Randall Degges How EU Cookie Law Myths Affect Web Security Over the last few years you might have noticed banners like this one popping up on a lot of web pages: These banners are a direct result of the passage of the EU directive, sometimes known as the C...
Jan 03, 2018 from Randall Degges To 30 Billion and Beyond Several years ago I created a free web service, ipify. ipify is a freely available, highly scalable ip address lookup service. When you query its REST API, it returns your public-facing IP address....
Jan 03, 2018 from Randall Degges To 30 Billion and Beyond Several years ago I created a free web service, ipify. ipify is a freely available, highly scalable ip address lookup service. When you query its REST API, it returns your public-facing IP address....
Dec 10, 2017 from Randall Degges How to Monetize Your Website with Cryptocurrency Mining I’m a big fan of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. They have a number of interesting applications, one of which I’ll be discussing today: monetizing your websites. Developing and runnin...
Dec 10, 2017 from Randall Degges How to Monetize Your Website with Cryptocurrency Mining I’m a big fan of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. They have a number of interesting applications, one of which I’ll be discussing today: monetizing your websites. Developing and runnin...
Aug 31, 2017 from twilweb Spooling from hive and uncompress You can spool from hive similar to sqlplus using : insert overwrite local directory '/some/local/folder' row format delimited fields terminated by ',' if hive is configured to generate compressed o...
Aug 29, 2017 from Randall Degges Authentication Still Sucks I currently own 47 domain names. I know it sounds like a lot, but that’s down quite a bit from my all-time high of 78 ~two years ago. I’m constantly thinking about fun websites and businesses to bu...
Aug 29, 2017 from Randall Degges Authentication Still Sucks I currently own 47 domain names. I know it sounds like a lot, but that’s down quite a bit from my all-time high of 78 ~two years ago. I’m constantly thinking about fun websites and businesses to bu...
Jul 14, 2017 from twilweb dos2unix using perl The below command can be used for quick conversion of windows saved files to unix perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/g' input
Mar 31, 2017 from Randall Degges Too Busy For the last handful of years I’ve been too busy to do a lot of things. Too busy to launch new products on my free time, too busy to go on trips for fun, and too busy to spend time with family and ...
Mar 31, 2017 from Randall Degges Too Busy For the last handful of years I’ve been too busy to do a lot of things. Too busy to launch new products on my free time, too busy to go on trips for fun, and too busy to spend time with family and ...
