I have reasons to believe that rediff’s code quality has become really pathetic day by day. Delivery managers aren’t paying attention to the feedbacks. They keep putting bad code and pile up stacks of powerful servers to hide their bad programming practices! Its high time Rediff ! WAKE UP! After my initial post on a […]
Author Archives: Hussain Fakhruddin
Kolkata …
Lot of things happened last week while I was in Kolkata. I was on a hunt to find a good office — Aparantly I didn’t get any good one. A few of them were good but the prices have hiked up a lot. Not worth the space! If someone is reading this blog and can […]
apachectl : Beauty of apache controller interface
Every tired to change apache config from a program and then wondered how to restart apache. Here’s a solution. APACHECTL. When you do restart of apache, it will kill all the current sessions. But with apachectl you have option to restart the server gracefully without killing any previous sessions. This way all further connections will […]
Notes from China
I really enjoyed my recent trip to China. I would like to share with you some of my experiences. My Flight was from Calcutta, India to Kunming, China. From Kunming a local flight to GuangZhou. I really liked GuangZhou. Nice climate, nice young people! I was there to attend 105th International Import Export fair. Its […]
SSH proxy – Running SSH over blocked ports, SSH on mobile phones, SSH over HTTP
Imagine yourself in a scenario where you’re a behind a firewall and cannot access the SSH, or you’re controlling your servers via your mobile. Here’s a quick way to manage your servers through HTTP via command line. You can fire scripts, run shell commands etc. Be careful, it will not ask you any username/password and […]
Webmethods running linux commands as a java service
Recently a friend asked me how in webmethods, she could fire linux specific utility tasks. She wanted to find out if the disk space is full on linux. This can be done very easily by the “df- kh” command. But how to invoke this through webmethods? Solution: Follow the steps below. Step 1: Create a […]
Webmethods to TIBCO Migration
I’ve been getting a lot of hits and requests to post something about Webmethod to Tibco migration. As discussed in many of my previous posts, Tibco is highly marketing is products and particularly asking organizations to migrate from WebMethods! You should see the way Tibco sales guys talk! They are technically convincing! SO lets try […]
Webmethods:How to Kill a Running Service from the Integration Server
Many of you have wondered how to kill a WebMethods service while its running on the Integration Server. Its become a Pet Interview Question for many but the interviewer also expects one of the following facts which is not the most recommended method to kill a running service. Here are some facts: 1. If you […]