Mailtrack is an online service that provides email tracking capability and analytics. Using its services the sender can track when the receiver read the email, when it was viewed and where is the reader’s location. It is a great tool for marketing but I feel that this is invading privacy and I would like to […]
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How to connect to a Cisco VPN in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Here’s the simple steps for you to connect to a Cisco VPN in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Cisco, an American company is the leading provider and manufacturer of enterprise network devices, telecommunication hardware, networking security and networking software. According to computer profile as of April 2018, Cisco holds a 73.9% market which makes it the undisputed […]

Bash string manipulation in program arguments
In this code snippet, I would like to run an application with a URL payload based on date and time. This code will be executed in a specific schedule everyday and I would like to dynamically inject the date and time in the program argument when the program executes. ./json2csv rules.json “ncp” “http://localhost:8080/api/zget?eid=get-ncp-mv-by-starttime-endtime&starttime=$(date –date=’yesterday’ +\%Y-\%m-\%d)+00:00:00&endtime=$(date […]
Standardizing SQLite in Spring framework Project
My approach in standardizing SQLite in a Spring framework project In a software development world were rapid project delivery is needed. The only way for us, developer having a sense of sanity is to build standardize code for future development. In doing so, it shortens the development time but having tested and functioning code base. […]
Golang MongoDB sort number inside a string
// Get List func (z *DocumentTagService) GetDocumentTags() ([]models.DocumentTag, error) { z.DatabaseService.Connect() var o []models.DocumentTag err := (*z.DatabaseService.Db).C(z.Collection).Find(bson.M{}).Sort(“-$natural”, “-documentReference”).All(&o) return o, err } Result [ { “idDocumentTag”: “5b1390f29ebea41854dcc0dc”, “documenReference”: “MCTU/2018/16”, “company”: “MCTU” }, { “idDocumentTag”: “5b1390f09ebea41854dcc0db”, “documenReference”: “MCTU/2018/15”, “company”: “MCTU” }, { “idDocumentTag”: “5b1390d19ebea41854dcc0da”, “documenReference”: “MCTU/2018/14”, “company”: “MCTU” }, { “idDocumentTag”: “5b1390d09ebea41854dcc0d9”, “documenReference”: “MCTU/2018/13”, “company”: “MCTU” […]
Replacing My Macbook Pro 2013 trackpad
Background I would like to share my experience in replacing my broken MacBook Pro late 2013 trackpad. One day, when I started using my MacBook pro I realize that the trackpad doesn’t work and my keyboard acting strange when I am moving my fingers across the trackpad. I tried doing the PRAM and SMC reset […]

A simple firewall-cmd cheatsheet
Get Default Zone Get Active Zones List Zone Services Add a permanent port into a zone Remove a permanent port from a zone Firewall-cmd reload I tested this using CentOS 7 with firewalld service running. Get Default Zone To know the default zone, use this command firewall-cmd –get-default-zone Get Active Zones firewall-cmd –get-active-zones List Zone […]

How to use Cloudflare as Dynamic DNS
In this post I will share how I use Cloudflare as Dynamic DNS. I was previously using dynamic DNS service from No-IP for three years until a colleague of mine mentioned about Cloudflare’s really fast global DNS. Initially, I thought that Cloudflare was just a CDN and an Internet company that protects websites from Distributed […]

Configure Tomcat To Run on Linux Startup
If you are using the core version of Apache Tomcat and would like auto-start it on Linux here are the simple steps. I assume that you already have a running Apache Tomcat and know how to navigate to the terminal and have necessary system permission to proceed with this tutorial. Depending on the distribution that […]