Author: Thejesh GN

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Authenticating to BLE device Offline

Let’s say I have a Bluetooth Low Energy device which is a GATT server and is not connected to internet.  I have a phone which can connect to this BLE device, authenticate itself and do some data exchange. The problem I am trying to solve authentication. The condition is both BLE device and...

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Upgrading in Process

I am upgrading multiple things. So things might break. Comment below if you find any broken stuff.

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Going Serverless with OpenWhisk

I have been using Webhooks for a long time now. Webhooks are HTTP callbacks. They usually get called with HTTP Post request on an event. For example system one does a POST request on system two when something changes on system one. These are typically used by heterogeneous systems for plumbing. In my...

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Using DataTables with CouchDB

DataTables is an Open Source jQuery plugin that adds controls to any HTML table. Usually DataTable takes an existing HTML table and adds functionality to it. It can also pull data from a remote JSON and create table on the fly. It’s a useful feature. Although for big datasets it doesn’t work as...

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Dear Mr R S Sharma: Aadhaar Number has no place on the Open Web

The Center for Internet and Society recently published a report called Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar numbers with sensitive personal financial information. After it was published it got wide media coverage. R S Sharma, currently chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India,...

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Offline First Apps for Indians – Part 1

Table of Contents1 CouchDB and Cloudant by IBM2 React Native and PouchDB3 Footnotes In 2015 I drove across India. It involved some of the most developed areas to very remote places. In some places it was difficult to get couple of hours of electricity. Connectivity was very patchy and in some places non-existent....