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....
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...
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 ...
Jul 14, 2016 from Randall Degges I Don't Give a Shit About Licensing Every now and then I’m reminded of just how much I hate software licensing. Instead of doing what I normally do and silently complaining to myself, I figured I’d mix things up a bit and write a goo...
Jun 29, 2016 from twilweb Java Generics This week I learnt Generics can be quite useful to retrofit a combination of interfaces . e.g suppose your method wants to accept any Object that implements Cloneable and Runnable . you can do this...
Dec 29, 2015 from Randall Degges Obsessing Over Availability is Dumb Over the past handful of years, as I’ve been building and working on several very large and very public API services, I’ve noticed that almost everyone I speak with is a zealot for availability. Th...
Dec 18, 2015 from Randall Degges Two Years of Evangelism In a couple short months, I’ll have been at Stormpath for two full years. It’s pretty insane how fast the time has flown by. It seems like only yesterday I was writing about my decision to move to ...
