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Automatically updating fat jar with Jenkins Publish over SSH

While using the Publish over SSH plugin for Jenkins in a project recently, I thought it would be great to have Jenkins restart the deployed fat jar on the remote...

Sriram Sriram
12 May 2015

Swagger, Jersey2 and embedded Jetty - without strings

I remembered having used a cool framework for self-documenting APIs called Swagger on a recent contract I was working on. Swagger is brilliant, easy and intuitive. Or so I thought....

Sriram Sriram
20 Apr 2015

ADB for generic Android device

While working on an Android project several months ago, I found that my cheap generic Chinese Android tablet wouldn’t get detected by ADB. This made it difficult to debug the...

Sriram Sriram
20 Apr 2015

MongoDB: Can't take a write lock while out of disk space

While working on a project recently, we had to process a large number of files and dump the results into MongoDB. The client even provided us with a fancy instance...

Sriram Sriram
26 Jul 2014

org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: Incorrect string value

I’m fairly new to Hibernate. I prefer using Java’s JDBC drivers and getting my work done without any additional frameworks on top of it. But sometimes your client comes along...

Sriram Sriram
25 Jul 2014

Changing the default port on Jenkins

I recently installed Jenkins on an Amazon instance for work. It was an EC2 instance running Ubuntu. I installed it using:

Sriram Sriram
24 Jul 2014