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This is the weblog of Milinda Pathirage

Category: Technology

Make Mac OS X Terminal Open In FullScreen

If you follow the below steps Mac OS X terminal app will open in fullscreen mode from that point onwards. Open Terminal Maximize the terminal window Go to ‘Shell’ -> ‘Use Settings As Default’

Architecting Systems for Scale

With the recent advancements in cloud technologies some people think that cloud will solve their scalability issues and it’s easy to achieve scalability using available cloud technologies. But it’s not true. Building scalable systems are hard, you need to understand what your problem is and you need to plan your scalability architecture based on that. [...]

Wikileaks and Governance

“The blame for the issue seems to be landing on a certain US private Bradley Manning. But I place the blame directly on a lack of Governance and poor IT systems. And the measures that have so far been announced – things like removing CD drives from classified systems – are simply the wrong approach. [...]

Uninstalling MySQL on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

How to uninstall MySQL in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Introduction To CouchApps

A CouchApp is just a JavaScript and HTML5 app that can be served directly to the browser from CouchDB, without any other software in the stack. Read “What the HTTP is CouchApp?” to know more about CouchApps.

WSO2 Stratos – WSO2 Carbon Middleware Platform As A Srvice

What is WSO2 Stratos? WSO2 Stratos is a complete SOA and developer platform offered as a self-service, multi-tenant, elastic runtime for private and public cloud infrastructures. Basically it’s the one and only open source cloud-native middleware out there in the market. Stratos is WSO2‘s complete SOA platform(WSO2 Carbon) improved to, run as a service on the [...]

Cloud-Native Middleware

Yes, we can deploy our existing middleware on cloud. When we want to handle heavy loads, we can cluster several instances of our middleware and run those instances on several cloud virtual machine instances. But when load goes down at off-peak hours, can we easily scale down our cluster deployed on the cloud.  Can we [...]

Webinar on Hybrid Cloud

The hybrid cloud option leverages the security of a private cloud solution and the elasticity/scalability of a public cloud. Architects designing hybrid cloud solutions need to reconcile between these competing goals. With WSO2’s Cloud Services Gateway organizations can now effectively mediate between their public and private clouds without compromising existing network firewall infrastructures. Through this [...]

Merging PDF Files In Linux Using PyPDF

PyPDF is a handy and valuable Python library for merging and splitting PDF files in Linux. It’s pure Python library built as a PDF toolkit. It is capable of: extracting document information (title, author, …), splitting documents page by page, merging documents page by page, cropping pages, merging multiple pages into a single page, encrypting [...]

Install Adobe Air 2 On Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit

Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that lets developers combine HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Flex technologies to deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop. The most recent version is Adobe Air 2 with more features than ever for the users as well as developers. AIR 2 builds on the success of [...]