React Native

Learn React Native with a Board Game (Part 1 of 4)

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In this tutorial, you’ll be learning about basic concepts, developing an application from scratch, state, props, and components. This tutorial is for both beginners and professionals. Introduction to React Native React Native […]

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IntelliJ / MySQL

IntelliJ – Connect to MySQL running in Vagrant

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The Database feature of IntelliJ/PHPStorm is very powerful compared to the MySQL CLI. It allows your edit your data from the UI easily without writing any MySQL commands. Here is how you […]

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React

React – Render String with HTML tags as HTML

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There are often times when you have a string with some HTML tags such as strong that you want to render as HTML on the DOM. Most solutions online recommend using dangerouslySetInnerHTML […]

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PHP

Debug slow PHP applications using IntelliJ or PHPStorm

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It is frustrating when your PHP application is really slow and you do not know which part of your code is taking up too much time. Google considers 2 seconds as the […]

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Spring Boot

Fixing slow Bcrypt and BasicAuthenticationFilter.doFilter

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I recently investigated and fixed a performance issue with user authentication in our Spring Boot based API service. Our users started complaining about random 504s from our service. Looking at our thread […]

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CI/CD

Jenkinsfile – Cheat sheet, Examples & References

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All of these examples were tested with the ‘Multibranch Pipeline’ type jobs. This may not work with other types of jobs in Jenkins. Validate Jenkinsfile for syntax Navigate to the directory which […]

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PHP

Vagrant Remote Debugging – Xdebug 3 & IntelliJ or PHPStorm

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Debugging is one of the most efficient ways to investigate an unexpected behaviour. This post details how to setup a debugger for a PHP application running in a vagrant machine via your […]

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Productivity

iTerm2 – Clear scrollback automatically on a schedule

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iTerm2 is my default terminal and have been using it for close to 8 years now. It is highly customizable and has API support for hackability. I was using it today to […]

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