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Installing magick-Config in Ubuntu 18.04 for Ruby (rmagic)

The Magick-Config is an executable that is needed to install rmagick gem for a ruby on rails application. The application i work on uses it and it's mandatory to install the native operating system binaries upfront to build the native extensions for the rmagick

Visionary Intrepreneurship - III

In the previous post i discussed about persevere and it's relevance in an organization. In this post we will discuss gratitude Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and

Visionary Intrapreneurship - II

I will honestly agree, BELIEF IS HARD. In the last post, i discussed about belief and why it is important to work in an organization. Now this is a sequel to that article. What happens when you continue to believe in something and don't

Visionary Intrapreneurship - I

An intrapreneur is an entrepreneur within a large firm, who uses entrepreneurial skills without incurring the risks associated with those activities. They are employees (ASE's, SE's, SSE's and other ajdfkajfk)

Updating Ubuntu on Windows to Xenial

Pro Tip : When i install Ubuntu on Windows 10 (or rather enable it from Add/Remove programs) i always get Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, which is pretty old and a lot of new packages i expect are not available. Even doing a 'sudo apt-get

Things that i get inspired from Pokemon Go

When i started the playing the game Pokemon Go i felt really exicted about all the imaginary characters around me and spent quiet an amount of time catching them. Over time i started to approach the game from a more philosophical manner for no

#scruem

#Scruem - Scrum Poem This weekend I was preoccupied with, how I can explain the team on the importance of scrum and think of writing a small poem for the same. I named this as Scruem. Each line in the poem defines one of

Lectures

If your college or any organization would like to have an engagement, please don’t hesitate to contact me at er.soundararajan@hotmail.com. I would be happy to involve in such activities, based on my availability :). Some of the visits in my

I 'm

Soundar (Soundararajan Dhakshinamoorthy), and i am an computer science engineer since 2007 with a B.S degree in the same disipline. I live in the southern part of India, along the coast. I am married with 3 kids. two girls, and a boy. They

Error occurred during initialization of VM

== Error occurred during initialization of VM java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:542) at java.lang.System.initProperties(Native Method) at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(System.java:1115)== One fine day when I am trying to run java command in

Git recommit hook for adding meta information to commit message

Hi, I am repeatedly annoyed with the fact, that i have to remember the issue id for which i am making a commit, and add it as part of the commit message. To do something about it i wrote a small commit message hook

Intellij doesn't run my test after i changed the name of the TestMethod :-(

Hi all, I love working with intelliJ for Java development. It allows me to use Visual studio key bindings, vim emulation, font ligatures and other powerful features that Visual studio offers, and besides all, it's much more affordable and viable replacement for all other

HTML Cheat sheet

Hi all, When working with HTML, i hate the fact that i have to search for syntax of certain things all the time. So i thought i will write my own cheat sheet, that's handy, and here it is. If you think something else

Hotspot VM - 0x01: Building the VM in Ubuntu

The Java Hotspot VM Series Hiya, I am excited to start working with the Java suite of tools and a lot of things I work with Java seems to be open source. Great. Apart from my regular professional work which involves writing some code

Postgresql server connection works with pgAdmin but doesn’t work with myBatis : Part 3

Hi all, Am totally relieved today as I found the root cause of the issue with Cisco AnyConnect VPN, myBatis, IPv6 failure. As discussed in the previous post I am perplexed by the fact that the connection to the postgresql database fails when connected

The science behind learning Atlassian Bamboo

Hi All, Today I learned Bamboo and it's concepts a bit and thought I will share with you all. First of all Bamboo is part of the Atlassian suite of tools, which can be used to run continuous builds, and continuous deployments. If you

postgresql

pgAdmin4 launches, but just flickers

Hi all, Suddenly today, my pgAdmin application become useless, and just starts and flickers. I didn't change anything with pgAdmin. Yikes, but I just remember that I installed a distribution of python from the internet that has it's python interpreter configured in the path

postgresql

Postgresql server connection works with pgAdmin but doesn’t work with myBatis : Part 2

Hi all, I am going to be more than happier ever for writing this blog as a predecessor to this one, as my for the failure seems more or less accurate. Ok, let's have the solution before explaining it, for the busy reader. When

postgresql

Postgresql server connection works with pgAdmin but doesn’t work with myBatis : Part I

Today I was trying to debug a failure in connecting to a postgresql server. As the title says, it works when attempting to connect with pgAdmin, but fails with mybatis. Before we go in detail, here is a short summary for the busy reader.

Imported Arduino Sketch is bigger in size than what it is in Arduino

Hi, When importing an Arduino sketch into Atmel Studio 7, a bunch of unused code also gets imported along. This results in an increase in the size. For an empty sketch, the size difference for the output hex file is (6KB), i.e 3KB

Atmel Studio 7.0 : Enable verbose logging for programming and debugging

Hi, When your programming or debugging behaves bit differently with Atmel studio 7.0, you might want to take a look into what's really happening or send it back to Atmel Support in such case. This blog explains how to do it. Goto Tools

Atmel Studio 7 FAQ

The following are some of the frequently asked questions about Atmel Studio 7.0 (build 582). The list of items will change over time as Atmel studio 7.0 gets more updates. This FAQ doesn't apply to any of the previous versions of Atmel

Atmel Studio 7 FAQ

Hi all, Seeing this dialog in Atmel studio 7 installation "An error occurred Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Shell (Isolated)". We see that Atmel Studio 7 fails in Windows 8.1 in some cases and at least all of the cases we have

Arduino

Arduino import Atmel Studio 7.0 , supported configuration

HI all, The following are the list of versions that Atmel Studio 7 supports for importing Arduino sketches. arduino-1.5.6-r2 arduino-1.5.8 arduino-1.6.0 arduino-1.6.1 arduino-1.6.4 arduino-1.6.5-r2 arduino-1.7.3 arduino-1.7.4 arduino-1.7.

Windows

Atmel Studio 7.0 fails to install on windows 8

Hi all, Seeing this dialog in Atmel studio 7 installation "An error occurred Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Shell (Isolated)". We see that Atmel Studio 7 fails in Windows 8.1 in some cases and at least all of the cases we have