I have been running Docker on OS X for quite a while now and the I switched to Docker Machine for Mac Beta few months back. It has been a great experience so far, but not without occasional hiccups. I run some of my containers in host networking…

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Feb 16, 2014

DustJS — Getting ‘Duster’ to work on OS X / Linux

This is going to be a short post on one of the issues I came across when I was trying to use LinkedIn DustJS on my Mac Book. I was trying out DustJS for one of the new projects I’m working on, and I came across ‘DusterJS’…

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May 20, 2011

Presentation — Java Web Start : How Zhara POS Works

This is a presentation that I did recently for my team, on Zhara POS (which is the Point of Sale module of Zhara Hospitality Suite, the product that I’m working on at JKCS). We developed the application using Swing, and deployed it over the…

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Nov 21, 2010

The Dark Art of Logging

Logging is a mechanism of keeping track of the runtime behavior of an application, mainly for debugging / tracing purposes. In almost all of significantly complex / vital applications, maintaining a proper application log is a must; hence, almost all developers are quite familiar with…

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Oct 24, 2010

Know the JVM Series -3- When Weaker is Better: Understanding Soft, Weak and Phantom References

How many times have we created various object instances, and assign those to reference variables? We all know very well that Java has automatic garbage collection; so…

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Oct 17, 2010

Know the JVM Series — 2 — Shutdown Hooks

In this article of the Know the JVM Series, we will be looking at yet another feature that is offered by the JVM, which is not very well known, and used by the developers. Shutdown Hooks are a special construct that allows developers to plug in a piece of…

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Sep 5, 2010

Know the JVM Series — 1 — The Uncaught Exception Handler

The Java API, backed by the JVM provides tons of features and facilities to Java developers, which could be used to get things done easily for certain specific scenarios. However, these features are often overlooked by developers…

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Aug 3, 2010

What’s harder, synchronizing 2 threads or synchronizing 1000 threads?

Recently, I came across an interesting presentation by Paul Tyma (Senior Engineer at Google / CEO at ManyBrain Inc), regarding the performance of Java NIO vs classic IO APIs. The presentation was titled as…

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Jun 1, 2010

Changing the default JBossWS (JAX-WS) Web Service End Point Address

If you are working with JAX-WS on JBoss (in my case version 4.2.3.GA) to expose SLSBs as Web Services, you might notice that in the generated WSDL, the end-point address is set as the machine’s name or localhost…