Add a new disk to ubuntu in Virtualbox
I have a Ubuntu box running in virutualbox as a local development environment. It’s very handy for exploring some new tools or working on some side projects....
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GCP CLI Cheatsheet
Retrieve project owner info
Run vagrant inside a virtualbox vm
It might be a question why do you need to run vagrant inside a vm. The reason I am trying to do this is because I have a home server which runs on Windows (c...
How Ansible run playbooks across mulitple hosts
This has been a question in my mind for a while, and it comes back recently because I have to run some slow playbooks in multiple hosts and I wish I could ru...
Plex server file permission issue
I have a Synology NAS at home and I have setup a plex server to serve some of the my media collections. It has been working pretty well in the past. However,...
Troubleshoot Java Runtime Errors
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError
Memo for Avro Schema
Avro 1.4.0 Specification
Setup Gitbook on MacOS
Install gitbook CLI
Create custom operators for kubernetes
Create custom resources for kubernetes
Cheatsheet for golang
Run tests
Fluentd log collector in kubernetes
Kubernetes logging architecture
Notes of API Design
Reference
cannot load python3 in vimr
Sometimes when I try to edit in VimR, I got complaints about No "python3" provider found. Run ":checkhealth providerr":
Distributed tracing in a microservice environment
Feign Rest Client https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-sleuth/reference/html/#feign
Notes of modern web security
Content security policy
Notes of hystrix configuration
Hystrix configuration
Notes of Synolog NAS configuration
Setup package manager
API Test using Karate
API test is very important for microservice development. You need a test suite that continuously tests your service and validate it works as expected. Or any...
Redis Sentinel Note
Introduction
Notes of api test for rest application
Top Load Testing Tools: 50 Useful Tools for Load Testing Websites, Apps, and More 14 Best Performance Testing Tools & APM Solutions End-to-end Per...
Notes of creating a kafka stream application
Kafka optimization
Tune vim startup time
My vim has been quite slow on startup and I really want to make it faster, otherwise it would be a pain to use vim, which should not be the case!
Notes of Spring Reactive
Reactive programming
Evertying you need to know about Java SSL
Truststore v.s. Keystore
Cheatsheet for IBM Cloud
# login to ibmcloud cli ibmcloud login --apikey <path_to_the_api_key_file> # list all clusters ibmcloud ks cluster ls # list resource groups ibmcloud r...
Debug java application
Just use this post to write down some techniques about debugging java applications, especially for multi-thread, deadlock or memory issues.
Github workflows
Use this post to summarize some workflows I uses in my daily development.
Best practice of dependency management in Java projects
It is pretty common for a modern java project to use Maven or Gradle to help manage the dependencies, which usually works pretty well for small project or si...
TLSv1.2 Support in Java
Some common errors related to SSL negotiation:
spring boot development tips
Common application properties
configure nginx error page for reverse proxied services
The basic idea is to use nginx for
Rest client logging in spring boot
Feign client
Cassandra Notes
When to use Cassandra
My own bash cheatsheet
Bash variables
Learning redis
Just use this article to collect some common lessons/issues around redis.
Memos for Java Stream API
Stream.generate
deprecation in graphql
Record the ways of deprecation in GraphQL.
Jacoco plugin in Jenkins
Jacoco has been used in the project to assure the test coverage. However, I didn’t realize that the jacoco job in jenkins is using a different plugin than th...
Mockito Cheatsheet
As a Java developer, Mockito is your good friend for unit test. Using this to record some frequently used Mockito usages:
handle interact shell in ansible
I have been using Ansible to automate some of environment setup work during my daily development/test. One thing I recently run across is to handle the int...
Fix missing marketplace issue for eclipse
I ran into a weird issue in eclipse, where the ‘marketplace’ menu is gone from the Help menu.
Tips for Intellij Idea
If you want to launch a project from command line, you can use the command line tool to do it. The cli tool doesn’t install with Intellij, you have to instal...
use nginx and vagrant to configure a reverse proxy server
For some reasons, macOS doesn’t allow you to run applications on the default http or https port. But sometimes you might want to have your application run on...
Update proxy setting for docker
This might not be common, but we have to work with proxy to access our docker server, to set a proxy, you can add the following in your .bashrc:
Cheatsheet for Httpie
Httpie is a fantastic command line tool that help you do more http interations using the command prompt, similar to curl, but much much better.
Iterate properties in DynamicProperyFactory
This might not be a common scenario, but sometimes you might need to iterate all of the properties managed by archaius utlity. Here is the code that can you ...
Gradle Cheatsheet
Try to summarize some common command for gradle:
Certificate error when using nodejs request module
I created a nodejs client to test our application. The application is still using a self-signed certificate to run https. So I got this error when I try to c...
Connect to mysql in MAMP from terminal in Mac
If you use MAMP and want to connect mysql from terminal, you should use the following command:
Setup your Macbook as a developer machine
Create this article to summarize my scirpts to setup my Macbook:
Error Handling Behavior of WebSphere Liberty TAI
This is a sample project to demonstrate the usage of WebSphere Liberty Trust Association Interceptor (TAI). TAI is used in one of our projects as the authent...
Third-party cookies and P3P
This is to keep a note about some cookie related problems I recently ran into. It’s pretty much IE related..
Setting gradle properties for Eclipse or Intellij IDEA
In our company, we have to use a proxy server to connect to our repository when working with VPN connection (which is terrible, but you just have to live wit...
Calculate time difference in Excel
I need to analyze some logs produced in our application, which involves a lot of time calculation. And I think Excel is a good tool to help me calculate the ...
unexpected token error with Angular2
I was playing with Angular2 recently and it has been a quite enjoyful expeirence, until I ran into the ‘unexpected token <’ error:
my own vim memo
This post just tries to summarize some frequently used vim commands that I can not remember (which is unforuante):
enable disqus comment for jekyll website
It is fairly simple to enable disqus for jekyll.
Syntastic doesn’t work well with typescript in vim
I ran into some issues with syntax checking for typescript code in vim. I have been using Syntastic for quite a while, and it has been very helpful for all t...
keyboard shortcuts for bash
As a developer, command line is my good friend and I spend a lot of time on it every day. It is always important to be efficient on what you do a lot! This p...
mingliang.me is the domain name now
In fact, I have used this domain name a while back. And I just decided to pick it up again. To use a custom domain name with github pages is fairly simple. W...
Import gradle project into eclipse
I have to work with some projects that are created using gradle. And when I tried to import the project into eclipse, I had run into issues and it took me qu...
Soft reset Garmin Fenix 3
As a regular runner, I own a Garmin Fenix 3. The watch is quite nice, but it still runs into some issues occasionally. Today it is dead frozen, and won’t res...
Get Kramdown and Rouge work together for code highligher
I have upgraded to the most recent jekyll version and was prompted by Github that the code highlighter(redcarpet) I have been using is out of support soon in...
my git cheatsheet
Just to keep a note about some frequently used git commands:
My cheatsheet as a developer
This will be a summary about tools, commands, useful links that help me in my day to day life. And it will be kept updating..
setup a docker environment using vagrant
I have played with docker a little bit about one or two years ago, when it began popular everywhere. However, since I don’t really need to use it for my work...
switch from vundle to vim-plug for vim plugin manager
I have been using vundle to manage my vim plugins for quite a while. It works pretty well. However, I just found a new option very recently - vim-plug. vim-p...
rake command conflicts with zsh
I am using zsh as my default shell. However, when I tried to use rake command to create new post (The Rakefile is cloned from [jekyll rake files] (https://gi...
vscode with vim
Begin to use this blog to take some quick notes that I may need to find later.
Another new blog
I can not remember how many blogs I have created previously. But as a shameful result, none of them last for a long time. The longest one is probably the one...
web
Cheatsheet for Httpie
Httpie is a fantastic command line tool that help you do more http interations using the command prompt, similar to curl, but much much better.
Third-party cookies and P3P
This is to keep a note about some cookie related problems I recently ran into. It’s pretty much IE related..
devops
handle interact shell in ansible
I have been using Ansible to automate some of environment setup work during my daily development/test. One thing I recently run across is to handle the int...
use nginx and vagrant to configure a reverse proxy server
For some reasons, macOS doesn’t allow you to run applications on the default http or https port. But sometimes you might want to have your application run on...
jekyll
Get Kramdown and Rouge work together for code highligher
I have upgraded to the most recent jekyll version and was prompted by Github that the code highlighter(redcarpet) I have been using is out of support soon in...
runner
Soft reset Garmin Fenix 3
As a regular runner, I own a Garmin Fenix 3. The watch is quite nice, but it still runs into some issues occasionally. Today it is dead frozen, and won’t res...
security
Third-party cookies and P3P
This is to keep a note about some cookie related problems I recently ran into. It’s pretty much IE related..
programmer
Cheatsheet for Httpie
Httpie is a fantastic command line tool that help you do more http interations using the command prompt, similar to curl, but much much better.
docker
Update proxy setting for docker
This might not be common, but we have to work with proxy to access our docker server, to set a proxy, you can add the following in your .bashrc:
nginx
use nginx and vagrant to configure a reverse proxy server
For some reasons, macOS doesn’t allow you to run applications on the default http or https port. But sometimes you might want to have your application run on...
ansible
handle interact shell in ansible
I have been using Ansible to automate some of environment setup work during my daily development/test. One thing I recently run across is to handle the int...
home
Plex server file permission issue
I have a Synology NAS at home and I have setup a plex server to serve some of the my media collections. It has been working pretty well in the past. However,...