Cracking The “Laravel Vs. Cakephp” debate
Neither of the 2 frameworks win the debate. They both have specific use cases where they fit and here is how…
Category: Technology
Make Sense out of your Stack Traces
I recently came across this cool tool http://www.stackifier.com/ which allows you to make so much sense out of your stack traces. Once I have locked on a stack I want to look at, this tool makes it so much easier.
Don’t Like Throttling?
Guess what – you are stuck with it. So you can chose to let the underlying system handle it or you can chose to dictate how your traffic should flow.
Do not let the illusion of control dictate the performance. Be the one who needs to control and manage the traffic
Are annotations bad?
We sacrifice the art of writing good and performant code for the short term gains of improving developer productivity.
Annotations can be powerful but only when used to add context and information to the code. But trying to configure your application with them is nothing less that a crime.
Making Thread Dumps Intelligent
When you have to spend hours and hours and mostly on night, weekends and your anniversaries you ask yourself what could I have done better during development to make this all go easy on me.
Thread Dumps are you best friend when a production application (Java) crashes and if you can enable it to tell you something about the application then thats something. Here I have explained how and have included a bunch of Java Code you can reuse.
Spring Framework – XML vs. Annotations
Use Annotations to anything is is core to the application and defines the core structure of the application. Anything that would need a code change is okay to sit as an annotation. Rest everything else should be XML.
Unit Testing in AEM (thinking loud)
Unit testing is an art – an art that doesn’t need to be confined to boundaries drawn decades back. AEM has made unit testing even more tough with its evolution and people are still trying to find the best fit aka what will work for them.
This article tries to explain some of my thoughts and what ways i would like to tackle unit testing in AEM and it’s not traditional in any ways.
I dont think there is one right way of doing it and this is just a beginning….
High availability design
Of course, eventually with many fixes over time you will eradicate a lot of cases that led to failures but it would have taken you so long and the reputation that the brand holds do dear is already damaged. You can chose to design for High Availability or you can chose to be just like Indian Railways – always delayed and always cancelled – a perspective that will i don’t think will ever be fixed no matter what they do.
Yahoo Moment: Google gets my content as #1 link on search
The key words are not very common and not a lot of people will see my content as #1, but it’s a mini victory for me to be able to get ranked #1 on a content and not having keywords that has my or my blog name in search terms.
AEM Development Workflow – Part 3 (Coding Old School)
The journey was nothing but painful all along the way. It took me 5 hours to do what should have been a few minutes job. The Site developer had the code up and running in a HTML file in a browser and all I had to do was to make it work “as is” within CQ. It seemed like the Force of Nature were working against me and everything I did, had a problem in it. I finally got it up and running (the designs done match off as is still), but it was excruciating pain.
Scratch Pad 