Angular 4.x – Integrate a jQuery Plugin

Posted on October 2, 2017 by lysender

I’m using a very old twitter bootstrap template which is using jQuery Colorbox plugin to handle image preview modal like lightbox did. It took me more or less 4 hours to figure it out given I’m fairly new to Angular … Continue reading →

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Rails – Encrypting Database Columns with Key Rotation

Posted on September 29, 2017 by lysender

Encryption is not an easy task. You have to manage the encryption itself, key rotation and securing the keys. In this post, I’ll describe how we managed to encrypt our database columns and enable key rotation as well. This post … Continue reading →

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AWS RDS In A VPC

Posted on September 29, 2017 by lysender

For the past few days, I’m trying to replicate a setup in AWS where the database server access is secured in a private subnet while the web server is located in a public subnet. The documentation is pretty straightforward for … Continue reading →

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1Password button not working on Firefox

Posted on August 11, 2017 by lysender

It’s been 2 weeks now my 1Password extension is not working on Firefox. The button is not clickable even after upgrading to the latest Firefox version. After asking help from 1Password on Twitter, it turns out that the fix is … Continue reading →

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Rails 5 – API Only – Enable Cookies and Sessions

Posted on July 5, 2017 by lysender

So you’ve been trying a lot of trial and errors just to enable cookie based session on a API only rails app? Are you trying to customize the cookie expiration but it simply defaulting to default session only cookies? The … Continue reading →

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Carrierwave AWS – copying files from one model to another

Posted on March 20, 2017 by lysender

We have already a working code for copying Carrierwave files from one model to another, however, it is only working for file based storage. For Amazon S3 storage, it is quite not working. Here is our old code: Every time … Continue reading →

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Re: Backup Internet

Posted on November 19, 2016 by lysender

Being a web developer who works at home, would you believe that I survived working for more than one year with just one internet connection? It was just fine until issues arise from my main internet provider. Today, I couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Rails 5 – Self Join belongs_to – entity must exist error

Posted on October 25, 2016 by lysender

Wow, this is my first post for Ruby on Rails and Ruby in general! So what I’m trying to do is very simple: create a self join relationship for the user table like a parent/child relationship. However, Rails always complains … Continue reading →

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Install Gearman Module to Ubuntu Xenial with PHP 7

Posted on June 30, 2016 by lysender

The Gearman PHP module is the last piece of dependency missing in our stack before we can consider moving to PHP7. I’m currently testing Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial on PHP7 and unfortunately, the gearman module is not yet available on official … Continue reading →

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PHPStorm – open an editor window without creating a new file – stormrant

Posted on June 24, 2016 by lysender

Coming from SublimeText, I missed opening an editor window and start typing or copying and pasting content that I would throw away later. With PHPStorm, you have to create a new file under the project. However, a handy plugin comes … Continue reading →

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