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How to Implement Hibernate Envers in an Application

By Joseph Macwan,
Hibernate Envers TechnologyContents1 Technology2 Implementing Hibernate Envers in an application3 Revisioning4 Hibernate Configuration Properties for Envers5 Usage of Hibernate Envers6 Reading Audited Entities7 Conditional Auditing8 Tracking entity names modified during revisions9 ConclusionHibernate Envers is the frameworks for auditing entities. As the name suggests Hibernate Envers is developed on top of Hibernate, it will on Hibernate and Hibernate implemented JPA. » Read more

Deploying ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC application to Azure Web apps using Visual Studio 2017

By Johnnymorgan,
IntroductionContents1 Introduction2 Quick Overview3 Prerequisites4 Getting started with MVC Web Application5 Deploying to Azure Web Apps6 Verify on Azure Portal7 Modifying & Redeploying8 ConclusionIn this tutorial, we will be learning as how to deploy .NET Core 2.0 MVC web application on Microsoft Public Cloud i.e. Microsoft Azure, using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 v15.3 For novice Cloud developers, aspiring .NET / Cloud architects, and all other IT professionals associated with the .NET Core framework & Cloud computing, especially with Microsoft Azure, this tutorial will explain the importance and capabilities of newly released . » Read more

A Beginners’ Guide to x86-64 Instruction Encoding

By Eric Z Ma,
The encoding of x86 and x86-64 instructions is well documented in Intel or AMD’s manuals. However, they are not quite easy for beginners to start with to learn encoding of the x86-64 instructions. In this post, I will give a list of useful manuals for understanding and studying the x86-64 instruction encoding, a brief introduction and an example to help you get started with the formats and encodings of the x86-64 instructions. » Read more

How to force a metadata checkpointing in HDFS

By Eric Z Ma,
The metadata checkpointing in HDFS is done by the Secondary NameNode to merge the fsimage and the edits log files periodically and keep edits log size within a limit. For various reasons, the checkpointing by the Secondary NameNode may fail. For one example, HDFS SecondaraNameNode log shows errors in its log as follows. 2017-08-06 10:54:14,488 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode: Exception in doCheckpoint java.io.IOException: Inconsistent checkpoint fields. » Read more

How To Debug Linux Kernel With Less Efforts

By Weiwei Jia,
Introduction In general, if we want to debug Linux Kernel, there are lots of tools such as Linux Perf, Kprobe, BCC, Ktap, etc, and we can also write kernel modules, proc subsystems or system calls for some specific debugging aims. However, if we have to instrument kernel to achieve our goals, usually we would not like to pay more efforts like above solutions since we’d like to achieve our aims quickly and easily. » Read more

QEMU/KVM Network Mechanisms

By Weiwei Jia,
Introduction As we know, network subsystems are important in computer systems since they are I/O systems and need to be optimized with many algorithms and skills. This article will introduce how QEMU/KVM [2] network part works. In order to put everything simple and easy to understand, we will begin with several examples and then understand how it works internally. Examples In this example, we will use TAP device [1] as QEMU/KVM host network device driver and VirtIO driver will be used to send/receive network packets/data between Host OS and Guest OS. » Read more

I/O Microscopy: Tasks’ Disk I/O Information with High Accuracy

By Weiwei Jia,
Abstract Most popular task monitor systems (such as top, iotop, proc, etc) can only get tasks’ disk I/O information like tasks’ I/O utilization percentage every seconds due to kernel timer/tick frequency and high time cost of system interfaces. This article presents I/O Microscopy, a new way to get tasks’ disk I/O information with high accuracy. Experiments show that I/O microscopy can filter out I/O intensive tasks effectively. » Read more

7 Common On Page SEO Mistakes You Are Making and You Should Not

By irfanahmedkhan,
With Google algorithm becoming more intelligent with each passing day, the margin for errors has significantly reduced over the past decade. Back in the day, you might get away with keyword stuffing but today, the same offense will strike off your website from Google search engine results. No one wants that, right. To save you from such a situation, here are ten common mistakes that most casual followers of the industry are making but should not. » Read more

Call Forwarding for iPhone: How to Set up or Disable Call Forwarding in iOS

By David Yang,
Call forwarding is useful if you are expected to be unavailable for receiving calls or lose cell phone coverage for some time. Call forwarding is not something that is "new" to modern phones. It is a feature which is invented in 1960s (the patent expired in 1980) of some telephone switching systems. But with iPhone/iOS, there is a convenient call forwarding feature in iOS for you to set up call forwarding to forward calls to a landline or other phone by its number or disable the call forwarding. » Read more

Reference: Special HTML Characters

By David Yang,
HTML supports many characters/symbols such as mathematical symbols, and currency symbols. They are not present on a normal keyboard. And some of these characters may have special meanings for formatting text. To add such characters / symbols to an HTML text, you can use an HTML entity name or an entity number in decimal or hexadecimal. This post list many special Characters in HTML as a friendly reference. » Read more

Basic Knowledge of HTML and Canvas

By Colin,
From a small business owner, a blogger, a student or individual with a personal project, the need to create websites has never been more prominent. Having a basic understanding of HTML and canvas knowledge can be helpful, and it is simple to master. The thought of learning to code and programming may seem a long and daunting task, but some people may be surprised to know that it need not be as scary as it sounds. » Read more

How to Install Paravirtualized CentOS 7 DomU on Xen

By Eric Z Ma,
This post introduces how to install a paravirtualized CentOS 7 DomU on Xen. The very common way of installing DomU does not work for CentOS 7. A little trick to set the repository and the network used by the VM should be used by adding a setting strings to the “extra=” field for this VM. To install the DomU VM, first download the pxeboot images from CentOS’s official website at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/. » Read more

How to Compile and Install Linux Kernel from the Source Code in an Existing Linux OS

By Eric Z Ma,
Building Linux kernel may sound a complex and geek-only thing. However, as Linux kernel itself has much less depended tools/packages compared to other software packages, it is quite easy to compile, build and install a Linux kernel from the source code in an existing Linux OS. Building Linux kernel is needed if you need to build a specific Linux kernel or update your drivers for a kernel by yourself. » Read more

Make Better Decisions for Your Businesses with Data Visualization

By Joseph Macwan,
Header In today’s time, data visualization has become a significant part of the success story of an organization. With the help of right techniques, visualizing data can reveal insights which the management staff can use in their decision-making in order to make sound data-driven decisions. Mapping software is among the robust data visualization tools that you can avail today. With maps, you can find stories, trends, and insights that cannot be found in spreadsheets. » Read more

Are You Wanting to Learn a Programming Language? Read Before Your Make a Choice

By Joseph Macwan,
Programming LanguagesMaking a career choice is difficult. And, if you have decided on becoming a programmer, the difficulty is just beginning. The most important thing is to first decide the language that you want to learn and this is often the most difficult decision. The good part is that you know you need to focus on learning programming and the bad part is that you might still be thinking which programming language should you begin to learn. » Read more

Vim Tutorial for Beginners: vimtutor

By Eric Z Ma,
There are many Vim tutorials and Vim tips on the Web. However, I find the vimtutor provides the best tutorial among those so far as I found on the Web while the vimtutor seems usually reachable from a terminal which is not obviously known to Vim beginners who are usually Linux beginners too. This page shows the content of the Vim tutorial from the command vimtutor in a web page which is especially easier for Vim beginners to get and learn. » Read more

Spring Shell Technology For Java development

By Johnnymorgan,
This post is about the Spring Shell technology and its use in java. Experts of java development India have shared their best knowledge in this post for Spring Shell with the community people. If you have anything to ask, do it at the end. Technology: It is command line tool for Java applications to interact with java applications using spring shell framework. » Read more