November 28th, 2011 | by kshaikh | streaming media, tech |
Wowza Media Server is a popular, java based streaming server used for streaming live and on-demand audio and video content for consumption on various clients like browser, iPhone, Android, etc. Wowza provides a lot of features out of the box. Its written in java and can be extended by writing components in Java. In order [...]
July 6th, 2011 | by kshaikh | tech, web |
Rails Best Practices View more presentations from Wen-Tien Chang Here are my favorites slides numbers #13 – Move finders to named scope #15 – Use model accociation #17 – Use scope access #19 – Add model virtual attributes #22 – Use model callback #25 – Replace complex creation with factory method #28 – Move model [...]
July 4th, 2011 | by kshaikh | tech |
Static code analysis in Ruby can be done using metric_fu. metric_fu is a nice gem which internally uses Saikuro, Flog, Flay, Rcov, Reek, Roodi, Churn, RailsBestPractices and generals useful quality metrics about the code. With the help of above it analyzes code for complexity, convention compliance, duplicate and unused code. Saikuro Saikuro analyzes code and [...]
June 17th, 2011 | by kshaikh | mobile application, tech |
What is CouchDB? CouchDB is an open source document-oriented database now maintained as an Apache project. Some of the important features provided by CouchDB are RESTful JSON Api to allow it to be assible from any environment using HTTP Third partly libraries are available in many languages that make it easy to use CouchDB in [...]
June 9th, 2011 | by kshaikh | uncategorized |
Unlike other mobile platforms like the Blackberry or iPhone, Android does not support PUSH notifications out of the box. There is speculation that it may be added in future releases of Android, but as of Gingerbread(2.3), it isn’t part of the SDK. But in true Google fashion, they have come out with a service to [...]
June 6th, 2011 | by kshaikh | tech |
Sonar is a static code analysis tool that covers below aspects of code quality. Architecture & design Code comments Coding rules for mainly using checkstyle Potential bugs Code complexity Unit tests and code coverage Code Duplications Download and install Sonar Assuming you have java already installed Download the latest version from this page - http://www.sonarsource.org/downloads/ Unzip [...]
May 19th, 2011 | by kshaikh | uncategorized |
When you upload your latest app to a production Web server and open it up to the world, you’re really throwing your app to the elements – good and bad. Your reputation is at stake .This blog post is about security checks before releasing an Application: Don’t trust logged in users. (Authentication is one thing, authorization [...]
March 25th, 2009 | by kshaikh | tech |
Names used inside code have to be meaningful.