In this blog post I will share how to generate text to image in Go programming language (Golang). I have previous and similar blog post using Python. You can check that post here. The reasons why I created this application is for me to share text content like Linux configuration and source code snippet in […]
Background I’ve been developing web applications using Java and Spring Framework and in 2019, I started using Golang in some of my projects. So far my experience with Golang is great but I miss the annotation that Spring framework provides particularly the @RequestMapping for URL mapping, @Bean and @Autowired for dependency injection. Most of the […]
Systemd is a Linux software suite that handles system services (daemon) and timers; it enables you to start, stop and restart your application using systemctl command. It can also start your application during operating systems boot-up sequence. Note that you will need to have root or sudo privileges for this operation. To create a systemd […]
Happy New Year! I hope you’re having a great time. Today, I am updating my online tool, ip.johnpili.com to use Cloudflare’s Request Header, “CF-IPCountry” so that I can display the IP address together with the country. I also want to have my own two-letter country code on my website as quick reference. The table below […]
The table below shows the IP address classes. This could be handy for someone trying to remember possible IP ranges of a particular IP class. The first 8 bits of the IP address are used to determine the class. Class Address Range No. of Network Hosts A 1-126.x.y.z 126 16,777,214 B 128-191.x.y.z 16,384 65,534 C […]
Setting up a static IP address on your RHEL or CentOS is simple. Prerequisite This how-to guide requires that you have administrative access to the Linux operating system. Steps 1. Inside the RHEL Operating system, open the terminal and head to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts Using ls command, you can see the available network devices. 2. […]
I bought this cheap keychain couple of months ago and thought it would be a nice weekend Arduino project. My idea is to modify this novelty device as a notifier to notify me when my Jenkins or software build is successful. It has a web interface and REST API. An astronaut keychain from a novelty […]
After installing MySQL, log in to it via terminal with Once inside MySQL, we will need to change the default plugin authentication to mysql_native_password and set a password for root. You can now login in MySQL as root using the password you set. […]
Let say that you wanted to create a MySQL user for example johnpili and assign privileges. You can do that using the simple code snippet below: mysql> CREATE USER ‘johnpili’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘Pass2Word3r’; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ‘johnpili’@’localhost’; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; […]
You may need to setup an SSH keys or environment variables to your Jenkins installations. One of the easy way to do this is to setup those environment variablesinside the jenkins user account. If you installed Jenkins in CentOS or Ubuntu via YUM or APT; These package managers will setup a jenkins user account without […]