I recently began using Jenkins and found quite a bit of security indifference. This is unfortunate because Jenkins is the world’s leading continuous integration server used for testing, building, and deploying code. According to RebelLabs, Jenkins has 70% market share, with the next closest competitor having only 9%. I’ve raised these issues with the Jenkins Read More

SAML is a protocol which securely provides an identity. Using an identity provider which supports SAML, you can setup Single Sign On. However, if you have multiple people sharing a GMail account, things get a little tricky. Here’s how you can set that up for Okta, which is one such identity provider. Application: Template SAML Read More

I’m a founder at Connectifier, a fast growing tech startup in Newport Beach, CA. We also have an open floor plan, which is great for keeping everyone in the loop, but less awesome for quiet concentration. We also have many amenities such as a kitchen, ping pong table, and sofas, but want to keep separation Read More

If you have a Java app that’s crashing due to out-of-memory errors then you can create a heap dump by utilizing the following flags: -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/tmp/mydump.hprof To read the head dump, you’ll need to: Install eclipse memory analyzer Open eclipse with lots of memory: eclipse -vmargs -Xmx6G Open memory analysis perspective: Window > Open Perspective Read More

Two of the more talked about frameworks today are Google’s AngularJS and Facebook/Instagram’s React, but there are limited comparisons between them. TodoMVC is a project which aims to provide a comparison of JavaScript frameworks by implementing a todo list in the most popular frameworks. I have a little experience with Angular and none with React. Read More

Jenkins automates builds and tests. This post describes setting up Jenkins for the Play 2 Framework. First off, you need a machine with a good amount of resources. I tried first on a small cloud machine with 2GB of RAM and it was not sufficient, so get a machine with 4GB of RAM. Next you Read More

ElasticSearch is a very awesome tool with very awful documentation. One thing you’ll need to be sure to do is update the ES_HEAP_SIZE in your /etc/init.d/elasticsearch to use half your system’s memory in production. The default will give you awful performance. TOTAL_MEM_K=`grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo | awk ‘{print $2}’ ` HALF_MEM_K=$((TOTAL_MEM_K / 2)) ES_HEAP_SIZE=”${HALF_MEM_K}k”

tmux is a cool tool that allows you to have multiple screens within a single terminal and to have persistent SSH sessions. The documentation and most tutorials are horribly complex, but it’s actually not that hard to use the basic functionality. Start a new session with: tmux new Detach your session with: tmux detach Reattach Read More

I wanted a remote graphical environment on a machine in the cloud. It’s very easy to download No Machine’s NX and install it. You’ll also have to run sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop unity-2d gdm if you’re on a server, since the server install doesn’t come with a graphical environment by default. NX 4 Note that Read More

Do not use sudo apt-get install ruby-rvm to install the RVM that comes with Ubuntu because it will not work well. First, be sure to setup the terminal to work with RVM. Now you can install RVM and Ruby: gpg –keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net –recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable –ruby ruby -v A Read More