A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
Update: Its become an all India postbox data collection project. Now we use the tag #openpostboxindia. The source code is open sourced and can be used for any type of photo and location based data collection using Instagram and Twitter. I have been using instagram a lot. If you follow me on instagram...
I have been using Google two factor authentication for a while. It’s probably the reason why I login using my Google id on every possible site I use. I can use a simple mobile app to generate time-sensitive one-time password (OTP) along with my regular password to login. Google authenticator mobile app allows...
I have been wanting to learn MapReduce for a long time. I never got a requirement where I could use it. Last few weeks I have dabbling with huge datasets. It was time and as usual I started with wikipedia. There are huge systems and frameworks built on the concept of MapReduce. They...
Deployments are usually very painful. We generally write scripts to make it automated as much as possible. I wanted my method to be as easy as running single line on command prompt from anywhere in the world. I didn’t want to worry about anything. At last with some experimentation I have found my...
All of us at one time or the other written bad code. Now we cant go back and correct it, but we can offset it by buying “The Bad Code Offset“, just like how big companies buy “carbon offset”. The money spent on buying “The Bad Code Offset” is sent to these five...
Uncaught exceptions in Java are handled by the System. The JVM usually logs the exception into the System.err and then shuts down. But in case of web applications its different. It logs the printstack trace to server console and then continues. Even though most of the time System.err is redirected to a file...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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