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Most of the Spring controllers in the real world accept a lot of different types of parameters - Path variables, URL parameters, request headers, request body and sometimes even the entire HTTP Request object.

My team at work has been lately working on a data transformer that pushes information from an external system in to platform.

The Open Graph protocol was designed by Facebook to help content creators generate a richer preview of links to their content when they get posted in to Facebook.

In the last blog post, I wrote about the challenges of writing an integration test for a Spring command line application.

We are building a command line data loader application at work that uses Spring.

When I first started programming, it was predominantly creating applications that utilized the C++ graphics library.

I often have to work with Spring MVC based code bases that have been living for a while.

Spring MVC provides a convenient way to validate inputs to API end points through the use of `JSR-303` annotations.

There are times when a Spring MVC end point performs asynchronous operations.

This blog post describes how to set up Tomcat to run multiple applications running as separate JVM processes, using the same Tomcat installation.

Cloud Foundry allows fine grained declaration of security groups, down to IP address ranges and Ports.

This week I have been trying out Cloud Foundry.

Making a map that shows a disputed territory can be a tricky business.

I have been playing around with maps a lot these days and have ended up using various tools in the process.

Today Yelp announced their dataset challenge 1.

I have been playing around with Clojure and after familiarising myself with the core, I decided to start writing little programs that forces me to choose the right idioms.

I had to set up a JMeter test last week - the test included logging in to a site, and then hitting a bunch of URLs, all of them being GET requests.

Last week, at the annual congregation of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (S.N.D.P.)

Life is the heap of broken pieces of crayons adjacent to that heap of broken pieces of your heart, laying by the heap of bills eclipsing the heap of paychecks and all that was lost while you were busy working hard to create those piles.

Far away, the Sutro TV tower was hardly visible in the haze of rain.

All of us have opinions-some strong, some weak; some we care deeply about, some we couldn’t care less.

The first part of this series can be found here.

The second part of this series can be found here.

While working with Locust 1 recently, we ran into a situation where we had to dynamically override an attribute in a class in the Locust library so as to control what value it got assigned.

I have been playing around with Canvas objects and images for a side project I am doing.

Ruby’s regular expressions support named capture groups, since 1.9.

Continuing from the last blog post, I have been looking at reading user input from a Gradle script.

I have been writing a fun Android App.

I will admit that I find regular expressions somewhat hard to parse.

Python’s urlparse module breaks down URLs in to components.

“What would you like to have today?”

One of the features that I miss most in Bash is the shared history between terminals that Zsh supports.

When I was setting up my new laptop today, I decided to use Rbenv 1 to manage my Ruby versions.

Today Kashyap asked how one can identify the compiler parameters passed when compiling a Ruby version.

I had to debug an issue today and that meant dealing with Rails stack traces.

Mathew Butterick’s Practical Typography 1 features a section dedicated to the History of Times New Roman 2.

I try to be careful when I use the internet.

Python does not have a true boolean type.

I have previously written about how social networks use URL shortening as a way of obscuring and swallowing information about sharing of content on their platform.

While doing some reading up on the comparative merits of using footnotes and hyperlinks in web pages, I came across an article 1 from 1998 by Jakob Nielsen 2 about using the then nascent 3 title attribute on hyperlinks to inform users as to where clicking…

From Kara Swisher’s well written open letter to Jeff Bezos in the light of the latter’s announcement that he has bought the Washington Post: To me, the most important trick is to deeply inculcate the joy of Internet journalism, without losing (actually re…

I love Biriyani.

Haykal Bafana paints a sad picture of the state of internet access in Yemen.

I am making my way through the book Graph Databases 1 which is an introductory book to the subject from Neo Technology 2, creators of Neo4j 3.

At work, I have to deal with Amazon CloudFormation [^1] templates a fair bit.

OpenSignal released the July 2013 edition 1 of their State of Android report.

“കൊട എടുത്തിട്ട് പോ” ഓടിൻ പാത്തികളിൽ നിന്ന് ആദ്യത്തെ മഴത്തുള്ളി ദേഹത്ത് വീഴുന്നതിനു തൊട്ടു മുൻപ് ഉമ്മയുടെ ശബ്ദം കെട്ടു പുറകിൽ.

Like most people, I like certain songs for their ability to bring back memories of times, places and people from the past that you don’t everyday bring out from the cellars of time, wipe away the cobwebs and dust and gaze at.

I use Emacs as my editor to compose Git commit messages.

TL;DR - Use the core.commentchar configuration to change the character Git uses to mark comment lines in commit messages.