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Web Services from Scratch - 1. Infrastructure

Web Services from Scratch - 1. Infrastructure

I've started writing my first web service with Spring. It started as something simple (check periodically if a site is active), but it evolved more and more as requirements and over-engineering creped in. This post lists the tings I set up now so I can make my life

Redis on Windows - Save RDB but Not Able to Persist

TL;DR: My windows service wasn't installed properly. Change the config file to point the DB to an accessible directory and reinstall the service. When trying to build a perioduc Celery task, I got the following error with Redis on Windows (running as a windows service): redis.exceptions.

Launch a timed service - Strategies

Launch a timed service - Strategies

An app I am writing at the moment needs to have a periodic timer, i.e. a way to run a bit of code at regular intervals. After digging through different sources, I've found two recommended patterns to code such behaviour: 1. Using a periodic alarm: Android has

Android: Display a Notification

Android: Display a Notification

One of the applications I'm thinking about I want it designed like the notification-based applications you see out there (Light Flow from reactle comes to mind). To be able to do this, I first need the app to display a notification on the device as a first step.