As a software development company, we make sure all our production servers have proper backup and restore scripts for disaster recovery. Follow this step by step guide how to create your own backup script for production servers with Amazon S3.
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In case you are in need of code snippet that needs to access REST APIs securely (e.g. payment gateway integration), here is a sample client code in Java using Apache HttpComponents.
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New trend in using Linux as OS makes it important for developers and those in the software development industry to work in the shell environment. Here’s an introduction to Bourne-Again Shell or bash, an important tool to learn and master for Linux administration.
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Most recent applications rely on push notifications to alert users of events that they are interested in. Just like how Facebook alerts users of new friend requests or messages.
This can be implemented in several ways… and this article talks about the ideal solution.
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WebRTC is the latest technology on video conferencing and peer-to-peer network that is contributed by Google to the Open-Source Community. For regular users, WebRTC means easier way to call your friends and family. You can use your regular web browser to call and achieve better quality than most communication tools out there.
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Enterprise applications usually consists of multiple layers. Primarily presentation layer, business logic layer and persistence layer. The business logic layer is considered the heart among these layers, and this is where all processes and decisions take place. Requirements for this layer also changes more often than the rest of the application.
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I recently came across this Java code snippet we created for Open-Tides and still find it very useful in developing flexible and dynamic applications.
So, why is there a need to retrieve values using reflection? The answer is simple – to allow your application rules to be configurable through the database.
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With the growing projects, we’ve decided to upgrade our test servers to a production grade server and setup virtual machines within the server. This move really makes sense because instead of allocating a workstation for each project as test machine, we are cutting it down into one server with multiple test VMs.
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