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Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

sanyam_khurana — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 23:11:00 +0530

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is an approach to managing IT infrastructure in which infrastructure resources are managed as code rather than through manual processes. Terraform is a popular open-source tool for implementing IaC. In this article, we'll explore how to use Terraform to manage infrastructure as code and how it …

Terraform and AWS Lambda

sanyam_khurana — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:53:00 +0530

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service that allows you to run your code without provisioning or managing servers. Terraform is a popular tool for infrastructure as code, which allows you to manage your infrastructure as code rather than using manual processes. In this article, we'll explore how to use …

Setting up CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub Actions

sanyam_khurana — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 17:29:00 +0530

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are essential practices in modern software development. These practices allow teams to deliver software faster, with fewer bugs, and with more confidence. GitHub Actions is a powerful tool that can help you automate your CI/CD pipelines and integrate them seamlessly into your …

Pros And Cons Of Using JWT (JSON Web Tokens)

Sanyam_Khurana — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 05:36:00 +0530

JWT (JSON Web tokens) is a great way to implement authentication in your applications, though often it is being treated as a silver bullet for almost every backend project. While JWT provides a lot of benefits while implementing auth, it does come with a price. Anyone who is thinking to …

Django and Machine Learning: Building Intelligent Web Applications

sanyam_khurana — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 16:21:00 +0530

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly transforming the way we build and interact with web applications. By leveraging the power of machine learning algorithms, developers can build intelligent applications that can learn from user behavior, adapt to changing environments, and make data-driven decisions in real-time.

Django is a …

List of few tags that are supported in HTML5

Deep_Singh — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 01:12:53 +0530

Hi everyone, some of you might be new to web development, so you must have thought that what is HTML5, how is it different from previous versions, what is new in HTML5.
In this article we will be discussing about the new tags which are now there in HTML5 but …

Understanding Event Dispatching Thread in Java

gagan93 — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 01:11:30 +0530

Swing provides a rich toolkit of GUI components which can be used to create powerful User Interface. Sometimes, we don’t get expected results when we are working on complex GUI & try to update GUI of that running application. From running application we mean that we have a Swing application …

Few terms in C++

sanyam_khurana — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 01:10:55 +0530

Howdy Coders!

Well, today we will learn about a few terms related to File Handling in C++.

Stream :- A sequence of bytes

File: A collection of data or information stored on some media with some specific name is called file.

Text File :- The file which stores data or information in …

Ansible?

storymode7 — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:58:20 +0530

Hearing about Ansible lately? Everyone's using it! But what's the buzz about, what is ansible actually? And why should you use it? Lot's of questions and lot's of answers. Let's dive!

What is it?

Well Ansible is a tool to automate the setup of an EC2 instance, a vagrant box …

MD5 Hashing using C#

sanyam_khurana — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:46:59 +0530

Its common now a days that all the passwords are being encrypted in order to prevent data theft. So the passwords are being encrypted, the most common and most secure encryption method is MD5 hashing.
MD5 hashing stands for Message Digest algorithm 5. The idea of MD5 algorithm is to …

Hail GraphQL

storymode7 — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0530

We start with basics, but then we've to upgrade. But why? Because the latest solution to the old problem is more elegant and much faster! To me, it happened to be GraphQL. It's a query language that follows you. The mantra? The structure remains the same. Let's see how we …

Introduction to Shell Script

GeekyShacklebolt — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 08:39:00 +0530

Ever wanted to automate a task on your *nix machine? Or are you fed up executing some set of commands again and again? If yes, then shell scripting can help you out there. In this tutorial, introduce yourself to shell scripting, along with some hands-on examples to practice.

What is …

[CHEAT-SHEET] List of Important IRC Commands

sanyam_khurana — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:13:00 +0530

While you start using IRC, it becomes very essential to do certain tasks. To ensure yours tasks are carried out smoothly, you must know the commands which may come handy. So, today we've compiled here a list of IRC Commands that would come handy doing different tasks in IRC.

Changing …

Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption

GeekyShacklebolt — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:00:00 +0530

Secured communication is inevitably a required norm in the world. To achieve the same, different methods are being approached. You must have heard the word "cryptography", which is really useful to safely transmit your signals by ensuring secrecy. Today, with advancements in this field, we have 2 of its widely …

Get rid of your old terminal, Go Fish-ing

vipulgupta2048 — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:43:00 +0530

Tired of using Bash terminal? Struggling with shell scripting. Want to try something better, easier to customize, configure. Fish is a simple, powerful yet user-friendly command-line shell giving you features that you have never heard of such as auto-suggestions, cleaner more organized scripts, web-based configuration/ customizations and a lot more …

Runlevels and rc.d scripts

storymode7 — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:07:00 +0530

Many operating systems use the concept of runlevels. This is particularly the case for System V Unix based systems. As you might have read in our earlier post how Linux boots it uses runlevels to determine what to do. Let's study runlevels and rc scripts in detail.

Runlevels

Runlevels are …

Transfer data with SCP

GeekyShacklebolt — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:17:00 +0530

Hello readers! Transferring data to your friends' machine is not a big deal when using storage devices such as pen drives, CDs, etc. But have you ever intended to migrate files between different systems over a network, to a machine that's out of your reach, like transferring data between an …

Hands-on Guide on GPG Keys

GeekyShacklebolt — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 22:35:00 +0530

GPG or GNU Privacy Guard is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 (also known as PGP). It is a tool that provides encryption and signing services, using which, you can encrypt or sign your files, messages, emails and can even sign your github …

Blue-Green Deployment

GeekyShacklebolt — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:11:00 +0530

A few glimpse of past reminds us that application deployment on clouds was really a cumbersome task. Not only because the rollback was a pretty much complex operation to carry out, but also, because of huge outage or downtime, which inevitably used to disappoint users. But as we can see …

What is Git Blame & it's usecases

storymode7 — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:50:00 +0530

Git Blame

Have you ever wondered who touched a bunch of lines in this code last time? There have been lot of situations which can leave people baffled for a while to know who actually changed what. Blame labels each line in the code with the details of the last …

What are dotfiles?

GeekyShacklebolt — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:04:00 +0530

What happens when your hard disk fries, or eventually you want to get a new machine? You tend up to loose all your dev configuration after years of hard work tweaking things here and there according to your liking.

Configuring a dev machine according to your liking would've been a …

[Ultimate Guide] How SSH works?

GeekyShacklebolt — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:58:00 +0530

SSH is quite an interesting protocol in itself. A lot of people are using it for a secure communication between two machines. This blog post hits behind the scenes that go on, between machines connected via SSH.

You might have an experience of remote login on SSH. But have you …

Have you ever heard of OG-TAGS?

storymode7 — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:20:00 +0530

Ever noticed how Facebook shows an excerpt from a website with its image, or how a tweet with just a URL changes into a short window to the actual website? It's because of og-tags. Let's understand more about it!

Overview of OG Tags

The Open Graph Protocol is what works …

How to Recover Deleted SMS from Samsung Galaxy Phone

sponsored_post — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:06:00 +0530

How to recover deleted SMS from Samsung Galaxy has always been one of the frequently asked on the forums and the internet by Samsung users. No matter how wise and cautious person you are, still once in a while you will end up deleting some important message and will instantly …

Introduction to React Native - Part 1

realslimshanky — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 14:11:00 +0530

What is all the fuzz about Hybrid Apps?

React Native is a framework build over the native development kit of both Android and iOS with which you can create mobile apps for both the platforms by just using JavaScript.

React Native was developed by some group of people working in …

How to Make Bootable Linux Pendrive

sanyam_khurana — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 17:04:00 +0530

Well, you may not realize today, but it is very essential to have a Bootable Linux Pen Drive with you. Many times, your system may crash unexpectedly, or even your DVD ROM faces some problem or you might just want to dual boot Linux with Windows to give it a …

Understanding Complete Boot Process In Linux

sanyam_khurana — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:48:00 +0530

Ever wondered, what happens behind the scenes to boot Linux? Knowing about what happens from the time you press the power button to the time when you get the login screen on Linux, i.e. boot process in Linux is very important. It can come very handy when you're debugging …

How To Save Logs In IRC using XChat

sanyam_khurana — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 22:21:00 +0530

Howdy Readers! Wonder if you're facing any problem regarding any FOSS project, the first thing you'll do is Google it to solve your problem. But sometime it can happen, you couldn't find it on the net, may be you discovered a bug? or let's say you just want to contribute …

Structures And User Defined Data Types (Part - I)

sanyam_khurana — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:17:00 +0530

Howdy folks, hope you're doing well. We've already discussed about 1D Arrays and their memory organization and further about 2D arrays and multidimensional arrays. In case you missed it, read them first. Coming to this tutorial, we'll be discussing the way to develop our own data types in the C …

Learning About 2D And Multidimensional Arrays

sanyam_khurana — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:04:00 +0530

Well, I'm glad you reached at this point, we've already discussed about 1D arrays and the memory organization, and in this post, we'll know about 2D arrays and Multidimensional Arrays. They are not very much different from 1 D arrays as we looked in the last tutorial. So, let's start …

ASP.Net Basics : Populate checkboxlist from database using C#

Deep_Singh — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 12:31:00 +0530

In this tutorial we will be discussing how to populate data in checkboxlist or radiobutton list from the values taken from database and display them on the screen.

Let us assume a database with following table definitions (from my next project) and table values.

and the output should be

Various …

Android Activity LifeCycle

gagan93 — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:35:00 +0530

Activity is the base class of an Android Activity (package android.app). An Activity represents a view to the user. For eg. When we open Messaging app to write a new message, it is an Activity. After writing the message, when we open contacts to select the person, it can …

Android Activity lifecycle (Code) & Debugging using LogCat (Android Part – 8)

gagan93 — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:37:00 +0530

Hello Geeks, hope you have read the previous article and are clear with the theoretical concepts of an Android Activity and its Lifecycle. Now we will create a code for the same to see what all methods are called in which cases. This code is similar to what you might …

Resetting Windows Password

gagan93 — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:22:00 +0530

In past, some of you have used clever utilities like Kon Boot Utility to reset your window password, or asked your engineer to format C:/ drive if there was no way out. This article will introduce various ways to reset password in Windows xp,vista, 7,8 & 8.1. Please …

Learning About 1 Dimensional Arrays (1 D Arrays)

sanyam_khurana — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:55:00 +0530

You may have heard of arrays or "tuples" before, if you've learnt any programming language. If not, then don't worry, you'll learn everything about them in this tutorial and how are they used in C to handle large amounts of data of same data type effectively and easily. So, let's …

Getting Started With Git

Peeyush_Gupta — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 22:24:00 +0530

Git is the most popular version control system now a days. The reason behind popularity is its simple yet tremendous functionality. Unlike other VCSs (Version Control Systems), Git has some unique ways to control and share your data. Because of its huge functionality it also tends to become a lot …

How to copy camera photos to Android phone directly without any app

Anoop — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:27:00 +0530

There are some of application to control/Copy your photos directly from DSLR from your phone like DSLR dashboard app but for Point and Shoot (P&S) .But now with latest android release you can copy any camera photos to Android Phone directly.

Why this is great trick? No matter …

[Ultimate Guide] What are loops in programming and how are they important?

sanyam_khurana — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:40:00 +0530

Welcome everyone to yet another tutorial on C Programming language. In this tutorial we'll be learning about a great concept of loops. Most of the programming languages would use exactly the same syntax for loops, so understand this carefully. Loops provide with great utility and power and saves from a …

Running A Python Script Using Chef

Peeyush_Gupta — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:39:00 +0530

Chef is an amazing configuration management tool, widely used in a lot of industries. If you are not familiar with how to run chef/chef-solo, please go through this article first. One of the best feature of Chef is it’s collection of resources. Resources allows Chef to handle configuration …

Storage Classes in C language

sanyam_khurana — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:55:00 +0530

In the previous tutorials, we have discussed about the conditional statements. In this tutorial we'll be learning about something known as Storage Classes in the C language. Every variable you define in the C language is generally associated with a Storage class which basically defines the Scope and lifetime of …

Learn To Manage Packages Using APT-GET & APT-CACHE Commands In Ubuntu/Debian. Part-3

Abhishek_Rawal — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:10:00 +0530

This is last & final chapter of this tutorial. Before proceeding further, I would like to link first two parts here just incase you haven't checked it out.

(PART-1 & PART-2)

Continuing from Part-2,

19) Checking The Stats Of Cache Using APT-CACHE :

This command will display all the statistics of the cache …

Convert GIMP Into Photoshop Like UI

Abhishek_Rawal — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:11:00 +0530

An artist in Deviantart with profile name 'doctormo' published an awesome tweak which let's you to change the user-interface of the GIMP something similar to world popular image editing software Photoshop. This tweak currently works on GIMP 2.8 .It does works for GIMP 2.9 but some features might …

Learn To Manage Packages Using APT-GET & APT-CACHE Commands In Debian/Ubuntu. Part-2

Abhishek_Rawal — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 05:36:00 +0530

This is second part of the tutorial.You would like to read the first part before you proceed further. Here is the LINK.

Continuing from the first part,

11) Removing Packages From The System Using APT-GET :

This command will help you to remove the installed packages from the system. However …

What is scope and lifetime of a variable in C language

sanyam_khurana — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:28:00 +0530

Welcome to your next tutorial, here we would be discussing about the scope and lifetime of a variable, and how exactly they are similar yet different from each other. We'll try to understand all this by using an example to understand the concepts in a better way.

So, let's understand …

Learn To Manage Packages Using APT-GET & APT-CACHE Commands In Debian/Ubuntu. Part-I

Abhishek_Rawal — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 05:43:00 +0530

APT abbreviated as Advanced Packaging Tool, is the package management tool used in Debian based distributions to install new applications from repository, removing installed applications, upgrading the system, updating the repository and bunch full of other useful tasks, all that from terminal itself.

1) Installing Application In …

Benchmarking OpenStack With Rally

Peeyush_Gupta — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:48:00 +0530

When you are trying to make changes in a code, there is a big chance of failure. And if the system is as huge as OpenStack, it becomes really hard to figure the error out. Here comes Rally. Rally makes benchmarking of OpenStack simple and automated. Rally works in three …

Block ads to make your web experience beautiful and speed up your Internet

Anoop — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:52:00 +0530

Everyone of us annoyed by creepy ads everywhere on internet. From mailbox to keep waiting for video in Youtube.

But ads not only makes your internet looks ugly but most of them sneak cookie, steal other website data and track your internet activity. Also these ads eats up your precious …

XHTML and CSS -2- Understanding Basic Semantics of Webpage

sanyam_khurana — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:52:00 +0530

In the previous tutorial, we took a brief overview, of what we'll be going to discuss in this tutorial series and how to see the rendered XHTML coding of any webpage. You can see the previous tutorial , in this video tutorial, we'll first understand the difference between XHTML and a …

Conditional Statements in Python

Simerdeep Singh — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:44:00 +0530

In this tutorial we will discuss about conditional statements in python. Conditional statements are used to perform different computation based on the Boolean expression which turns out to be true or false . Boolean expression is on which these conditional statement works. Various Conditional statement used are:

If
Else
Else if …

Writing your First Javascript code

Deep_Singh — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:11:00 +0530

In the previous article we discussed about introduction to javascript, in this article we will discuss about how to write a javascript code, where we can add javascript in our web pages, how to use tools that are built in our web browser, how to validate HTML5/javascript code.

Validation …

Introduction to Javascript

Deep_Singh — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:55:00 +0530

Hi everyone, welcome to this brief article discussing about javascript, we'll do this by discussing various fundamentals of javascript, javascript is a programming language that as a software developer you can't ignore. Javascript was first demonstrated and announced at conference at SanFrancisco in 1995, over the time web browsers emerged …

Creating your first Java Program (J4A - 2)

gagan93 — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 23:58:00 +0530

Beginning Java Programming

Some institutes/tutorials start java directly using Netbeans or Eclipse IDE. But this is not the correct way. A better method is to use a basic text editor like Notepad2 or Notepad++ to begin Java. IDE’s provide shortcuts which experienced programmers use. If beginners opt for …

Moving from C++ to Java (J4A - 1)

gagan93 — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 23:51:00 +0530

C to C++ and C++ to Java:

C was a powerful programming language but used structural approach. So when the length of code exceeded a particular no. of lines, the code became unmanageable. So this led to Object Oriented Programming techniques and birth of C++. But C++ compilers at that …

Introduction and Syllabus (J4A - 0)

gagan93 — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 22:54:00 +0530

Hello geeks, (J4A) Java for Android is a series of tutorials for those who have good knowledge of C++ and want to switch to android without going into details of Core Java. So here we'll discuss ONLY THOSE features of JAVA (keywords, classes, concepts) which are used in android also …

Second simple Android Application Part 3 (Android-Part 6)

gagan93 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:20:00 +0530

Welcome back geeks, so after pasting this code, you would be having the MainActivity.java file like this :

In this screenshot, notice the highlighted part on the left. The Eclipse IDE is showing some errors at some specific lines (line no. 9 10,17,18 and so on). Now we …

Second simple Android Application Part 2 (Android-Part 5)

gagan93 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:32:00 +0530

Welcome back geeks, this tutorial is a continuation of previous tutorial. So please read the previous one if you have not read it.

So we had created a simple layout and it looked something like this :

Double click on the button to change the text of the button, now the …

Second simple Android Application Part 1 (Android-Part 4)

gagan93 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:26:00 +0530

Hey Geeks ! Hope you all have gone through previous tutorials and are clear with the basics of android. Here we’ll create our second simple android application which will consist of creating our own layout and a bit of java coding. As discussed previously, the layout of our android application …

KVM vs QEMU vs Libvirt

Peeyush_Gupta — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:22:00 +0530

Since the day I started to read about the virtualization concept, I have been troubled by QEMU and KVM. They both look like complementary, but what exactly they do? And then there is libvirt, what role does it play? Let’s try to understand that.

When you dive deep into …

Java: Autoboxing and -XX:AutoBoxCacheMax

Anoop — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:52:00 +0530

Autoboxing is the mechanism in Java to convert primitive type values to respective wrapper class object. Java programmer mostly use autoboxing while using collections, since collection only holds object and to put primitive type data into collection, it's need to use wrapper classes to convert into objects.

So , here is …

XHTML and CSS - 1 - Overview and Downloading Text Editor

sanyam_khurana — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 13:55:00 +0530

Welcome to first tutorial in the Video Tutorial Series of XHTML and CSS, you can find list of all tutorials on XHTML and CSS , and you can watch andsubscribe the channel on YouTube.

In this tutorial, we'll get started with Web Development by understanding how to develop webpages. The …

Free Video Tutorials

sanyam_khurana — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 13:46:00 +0530

So, finally we decided to make the site more spicy by giving out free video tutorials for you so that you can understand stuff in a better way.

This page would be frequently updated with links to different sections and video tutorials

You can subscribe the Official Channel of TheGeekyWay …

Java Multithreading : Thread States and Thread Priority

Anoop — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 23:16:00 +0530

In a thread lifecycle it can have one of the following states mentioned below. I have already explained Thread Life Cycle and basics of thread including Daemon Threads.

Now let see inside the thread states and how to achieve them .

NEW : A thread has not started yet.
RUNNABLE : Thread is …

Understanding Permissions With umask

Peeyush_Gupta — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:42:00 +0530

Linux was developed as a multi-user system. One big problem with multi-user systems is securing information of a particular user from other users. To do that, a concept of permissions was introduced. When you create a file, you have the right to read and write it. In this article we …

Disclaimer

sanyam_khurana — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:50:00 +0530

This blog is a collaborative blog written by a group of individuals. For questions about this blog, please contact admin\@TheGeekyWay.com.

Disclaimers for www.TheGeekyWay.com:

All the information on this website is published in good faith and for general information purpose only. www.TheGeekyWay.com does not make …

Executing your Android Application (AVD's) (Android-Part 3)

gagan93 — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 23:31:00 +0530

[Hello Geeks, hope you have gone through this postand have a good understanding of Android projects before proceeding further. To test / debug our Android Application, we can use any of available methods :]{style="font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em"}
1. We can use the Android Virtual Device (we'll create one …

Java Multithreading

Anoop — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 23:31:00 +0530

*Threads. * Thread is also known as lightweight process. Java multithreading allows to process multiple task simultaneously with less overhead than process. Mostly use to monitor session, background synchronization etc.

Content

Process vs Thread
Creating first thread program
- Implementing Runnable vs extending Thread
Thread State and Life cycle
Daemon Thread

Processes …

Anatomy of First Android Application (Android-Part 2)

gagan93 — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:22:00 +0530

Hello Geeks, hope you all have read the previous post for setting up IDE, here we explain what each folder of a newly created Android Application means. As soon as you follow the steps described in previous post, a simple android application with the application name and a predefined string …

SR Flip-Flop: Description

Jeffrey_Samuel — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:20:00 +0530

In the previous post we concentrated on the major advantage of Flip-Flop over Latches. In this Blog we will be concentrating more on the most basic type of Flip-Flops which is SR Flip-Flop. Do note that there are counterparts for every Flip-Flop in latch as well.

As we all know …

Setting Up Eclipse IDE for Android Application Development (Android-Part 1)

gagan93 — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 22:33:00 +0530

Here is a complete tutorial to setup Eclipse IDE. Hope you have seen the first tutorial and have installed the required tools (ADT + Eclipse & JDK).After installing JDK, extract the Android SDK to a folder and you will get something like this.

Few screenshots related to Eclipse may vary due …

Conditional Statements : Switch Case

sanyam_khurana — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 21:02:00 +0530

In the previous tutorial, we've discussed about if - else and nested if - else statements and how we can use them to test certain conditions and execute a block of code depending on whether the condition becomes true or false. In this tutorial, we'll be covering another Conditional Statement used in …

Variables in PYTHON

Simerdeep Singh — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:07:00 +0530

Variables

Variables are used for storing data in the form of integer,char ,boolean etc.They act as a storage medium for us . Based on the datatype of variable interpreter allocates the memory required by that datatype. There are 4 types of variables.

Integer
String
float
complex

Values are assigned …

Create your own Simple File Transfer App over LAN (with Source code in JAVA)

gagan93 — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:43:00 +0530

Many Core Java packages can be used to create useful applications. This application uses java.net package to establish connection between two systems residing on the same network. This point is important, because it will not work for arbitrary networks (having no connection between them). For those who don't have …

Getting Started With Chef-solo

Peeyush_Gupta — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:59:00 +0530

Chef is an amazing tool from opscode to automate your work. Though it is very useful, it is also very complex to understand and work with. Before discussing about Chef-solo, here are some terminologies related to chef that we should learn first.

Recipes: These are the files that contain the …

Beginning Android, for Java / C++ programmers (Android-Part 0)

gagan93 — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:35:00 +0530

Most of the people now have Android devices. This attracts a lot of people to begin career as an Android Developer. Although creating games with sophisticated graphics isn't easy, but creating a simple Android app is. What you need to start Android Application Development is good knowledge of OOPS concept …

JAVA - Getting Started with Introduction

Manpreet_Singh — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:58:00 +0530

Before learning JAVA, it is advisable that you should have a programming background. Even if you re not from programming background, I will try to make it as simple as I can.

JAVA is one of the most powerful language. The various software which are powered by this programming language …

CSS - Border Radius for rounded corners

Anoop — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:30:00 +0530

Border radius is used to create rounded corners see the following.

[codepen_embed height=200 theme_id=1 slug_hash='emxdk' user='ianoop' default_tab='css' animations='run'/]

Above code fore border radius is equivalent to

border-top-right-radius: 20px;
border-top-left-radius: 20px;
border-bottom-left-radius: 20px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 20px;

or

border-radius: 20px 20px 20px 20px;

You can specify rounded …

ASP. Net Basics : Deny access to a particular folder

Deep_Singh — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:36:00 +0530

Setting authentication is most important part of asp.net web application project, there can a time where you don't want any user to access a particular folder. For example while creating a Gallery project we don't want any user to access the /pictures folder.

ASP.net supports 3 modes of …

Z-Index in CSS

Deep_Singh — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:52:00 +0530

What is Z-Index ?

Z-Index is the property of CSS which is used to order the elements behind and in front in the form of stack. You can consider this a virtual stack where the higher value of z-index is placed infront and the lower value of z index is placed …

PYTHON - Getting Started

Simerdeep Singh — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:03:00 +0530

Why Python ?

Python is a **high-level programming** language whose syntax is said to be clear and expressive. Python has a large standard library. Python is an easy to understand language we can learn this language in a few days and for making any gaming software we should must have good …

Understanding Conditional Statements: if else

sanyam_khurana — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:08:00 +0530

In this tutorial, we'll uncover something much interesting which would simplify our work as a programer and help us to check if a given condition is true or not. We'll study about the Conditional statements like if - else , if-else if-else, nested if -else and switch (continued in next tutorial)

Understanding …

Operators in the C language

sanyam_khurana — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:57:00 +0530

Welcome to your next tutorial in the C language, today, we’ll discuss about operators in the C language. We have already discussed about Variables in C language, and how we can store data in variables input by user, next we may need to update this data , or make various …

Asp.net Basics : Uploading a file in asp.net using validations (Part 5 of 5)

Deep_Singh — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 05:22:00 +0530

This is a part 5 of the 5 part tutorial.
If you are visiting this page for the first time then you must visit part 1 of the tutorial
on how to upload a file on server here

Contents of this 5 part tutorial
Part 1 : Basics of ASP.Net …

Asp.net Basics : Uploading a file in asp.net using validations (Part 4 of 5)

Deep_Singh — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:00:00 +0530

This is a part 4 of the 5 part tutorial.
If you are visiting this page for the first time then you must visit part 1 of the tutorial
on how to upload a file on server here

Contents of this 5 part tutorial
Part 1 : Basics of ASP.Net …

Customize GRUB2/BURG Screen Using Grub Customizer

Abhishek_Rawal — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:33:00 +0530

GRUB Customizer is the application with graphical interface to configure GRUB2/BURG settings, visuals & menu-entries.

Features:

- supports GRUB2 & BURG

- rename, remove & move the menu-entries

- Installation of bootloader to MBR

- settings like default distro, Kernel params, BG image, text colors etc. to customize the look of GRUB2/BURG

You can simple …

Asp.net Basics : Uploading a file in asp.net using validations (Part 3 of 5)

Deep_Singh — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 01:03:00 +0530

This is a part 3 of the 5 part tutorial.
If you are visiting this page for the first time then you must visit part 1 of the tutorial
on how to upload a file on server here

Contents of this 5 part tutorial
Part 1 : Basics of ASP.Net …

Asp.net Basics : Uploading a file in asp.net using validations (Part 2 of 5)

Deep_Singh — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:10:00 +0530

This is a part 2 of the 5 part tutorial.
If you are visiting this page for the first time then you must visit part 1 of the tutorial
on how to upload a file on server here

Contents of this 5 part tutorial
Part 1 : Basics of ASP.Net …

Asp.net Basics : Uploading a file in asp.net using validations (Part 1 of 5)

Deep_Singh — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:59:00 +0530

Contents of this 5 part tutorial
Part 1 : Basics of ASP.Net file uploading, uploading a file to a server.
Part 2 : ASP.Net file uploading using EmptyFile Validations.
Part 3 : ASP.Net file uploading using FileSize validation.
Part 4 : ASP.Net file uploading using FileExtension validator.
Part 5 : Complete …

CSS Regex selector - Using Regular Expression in CSS

Anoop — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 13:53:00 +0530

Just like JQuery, CSS also offer a great way to filter out elements with selectors using Regular Expressions.

Selecting on Attribute and value

[[att=str]]{style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"} :- attribute value is exactly matching to str

[[att*=str] ]{style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"}:- attribute value contains str - value can …

Install HTML5 Capable Browser In Raspberry Pi

Abhishek_Rawal — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 10:19:00 +0530

'Web' is the epiphany port available for Raspberry Pi users, which is HTML5 capable browser & it's predicted to be shipped in future Raspbian release. Well, if you're impatient for the official release of 'Web' & wanna try out this awesome browser, here's few steps which will let you enjoy the beta …

Java Reflection: class "Method" to inovoke methods and get metadata

Anoop — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 23:57:00 +0530

using [java.lang.reflect.Method]{style="font-family: courier new,courier;"} you can get metadata/signature of methods (including private) and can invoke accessible methods at runtime.

Class Method provides a great tool to list all methods and find information about methods. following tutorial will provide you more detail of class …

How play videos on Raspberry Pi - OMXPlayer

Anoop — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 23:55:00 +0530

OMX player is a command line player which can be controlled via Android app or over SSH.

OMX player can play all common files including .avi, .mp4 and mkv without any extra codec with subtitle.

Installing OMX Player

Download and install player from source

Stable Build (Already added in Raspbian …

Vagrant up And Beyond!

Peeyush_Gupta — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:28:00 +0530

When you are working on a project with a team, a big question is how to make them work on same environment? One solution is to make them work on same machine, but this gets messy as everyone is making changes. The other solution is to provide everyone with same …

Arduino Uno Pin Functions

Abhishek_Rawal — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:23:00 +0530

Arduino Uno's Pin labelling is displayed in image below, and detailed function of each & every pin is mentioned below the image.

PIN FUNCTIONS :

USB To PC : It is used to communicate Arduino via Universal Serial Bus to PC for programming/sending data to Arduino serially.

7V to 12V DC Input …

Raspberry Pi: Change Password, Auto Login and Remote Desktop

Anoop — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 00:56:00 +0530

I have already given tutorial for RaspberryPi First Installation and Boot. Let's go with advance configuration of RasPi.

Things to do after 1st boot of Raspberry Pi

Changing Default Password
Adding New User to Raspi
Auto Login to GUI without Entering username/password
Setting up Remote Desktop: Connect Raspi from …

CSS3 Animations: Getting started

Anoop — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 00:34:00 +0530

CSS animations is a great tool design website in very cool fashion without any gif images and reduced page size.
~(Keep\ in\ mind\ IE8\ and\ IE9\ are\ stone\ age\ browsers\ and\ CSS3\ animation\ won't\ work\ with\ it).~
There are two basic keyword used to generate animations using

animation

and

\@keyframes …

Raspberry Pi - How to install and first boot

Anoop — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 23:01:00 +0530

Installing and setting up Raspberry Pi is fairly easy in following steps

Buy RasPi from Element14 / (CrazyPiin India)
Get a SD card (>4GB) and format in FAT32 system (Windows Method / Linux Method)
Download NOOB version of Raspberry Pi from here
Extract and copy everything in your SD card
Plug …

OpenStack - Understanding The Architecture

Peeyush_Gupta — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:04:00 +0530

OpenStack is a cloud computing project to provide an Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), jointly launched by RackSpace and NASA. A collection of open-source technologies combined together make it a massively scalable cloud operating system. One big quality of OpenStack is it’s simplicity, anyone can easily tie-up different hosts …

Learn C - More about variables

sanyam_khurana — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:51:00 +0530

Welcome to your next tutorial on the Learn C language, here we'll have a deeper look at the use of variables in C language. In previous tutorial about variables in C, we defined a variable sam of integer type and then initialized it with …

Java 7 : Try-with-resources - Close resources automatically with AutoCloseable interface

Anoop — Sun, 15 Dec 2013 21:19:00 +0530

Every time we write code with FileInputStream,

BufferReader

etc. we need to close those resource explicitly in finally block.

Now from Java 7, there are two interfaces included

Closeable

and

AutoCloseable

with single abstract method

close(),

which enables implementing class to close resources aromatically after try block.

Lets see how …

Java 7: Binary literal type

Anoop — Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:21:00 +0530

From Java 7 Binary type also joins the category of literal with *

byte, short, int and long

. Which means a binary value can be assigned by using 0b or 0B *prefix to a primitive type.

What is a Literal : A literal is source code representation of source code. Which can …

Maintaining Sessions in Asp.net

Deep_Singh — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 01:33:00 +0530

Session is amongst the most important part in creating asp.net applications. It is a variable where you can put data between page requests when the pages are either posting or redirecting to each other. It can contain small amount of data containing string, complex arrays or numbers.

In Asp …

How to add custom CSS in HTML

Anoop — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 23:47:00 +0530

I have already given the introduction to CSS and advantages.Now, there are few ways to use your custom CSS in your site/blog/wordpress.

Using style tag with HTML elements.
Using Style element inside HTML page
Linking external CSS file in your pages
Importing CSS file inside another CSS …

CSS - Introduction and How it works

Anoop — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:57:00 +0530

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet which is used to style HTML elements.
While loading any webpage browser simply create DOM of requested web page and renders the HTML. CSS is basically a better way of managing HTML attributes

style

of any element.

To add style we simply use

Style …

Install Alternative To Arduino IDE

Abhishek_Rawal — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 08:42:00 +0530

Arduino, the world famous opensource electronic prototyping platform is undoubtedly the best series of boards used by makers & Engineers. However, the official Arduino IDE which is used to load the arduino sketch is bit clumsy. I never really liked Arduino IDE, so after searching a lot, I came to know …

How To Install Sublime Text Editor In GNU/Linux ?

Abhishek_Rawal — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 07:25:00 +0530

Sublime Text Editor is one of the best cross-platform editor out there for editing source code. It is capable of syntax highlighting for wide range of file extensions like Python, C, C++, Java, HTML, JS, PHP, LaTeX & even Arduino. Sublime Text Editor is not opensource & not an free editor, but …

How To Install Any Application From Source Code ?

Abhishek_Rawal — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:44:00 +0530

Most of the applications are available in the official repository of your Linux distribution. However, there are times when some of the applications you're installing haven't been updated in the repository & you want to get the latest version of that application.Learning how to …

Learning about Variables in C

sanyam_khurana — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:30:00 +0530

Welcome to your second tutorial on the C language. In this tutorial, we'll be discussing about variables, their applications, their necessity both in general terms of programming and for C language as well. Variables in C are really very important. These are the fundamentals and you need to understand how …

Understanding init.d Directory In Linux Filesystem.

Abhishek_Rawal — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 13:08:00 +0530

init.d is the sub-directory of /etc directory in Linux file system. init.d basically contains the bunch of start/stop scripts which are used to control (start,stop,reload,restart) the daemon while the system is running or during boot. If you look at /etc/init.d then you …

C# Tutorial : Compiling C# Programmes using Notepad

Deep_Singh — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:13:00 +0530

About C#

C# is a multi-paradigm object oriented language developed by Mircrosoft in the year 2000. C# has its major implementations in dotNet framework, Mono, DotGNU. In this tutorial we will print a simple line "TheGeekyWay.com" using a notepad and C# command line compiler.

In order to continue with …

How To Display Raspberry Pi On VGA Monitor/TV ?

Abhishek_Rawal — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 23:43:00 +0530

Raspberry Pi, A \$25 ARM GNU/Linux box comes with RCA & HDMI port. Connecting Raspberry Pi with HDMI supported TV/monitor is cake walk. But, unfortunately some of us still have monitors with only VGA connectors. Raspberry Pi didn't included VGA connectors keeping power consumption of the board in mind …

Privacy Policy

sanyam_khurana — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:19:00 +0530

This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which TheGeekyWay collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a "User") of the http://www.TheGeekyWay.com website ("Site"). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by TheGeekyWay.

Personal identification information

We may collect …

Getting Started With C language

sanyam_khurana — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:26:00 +0530

Introduction to C language

C language is a middle level language developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1969 and the most secure OS "UNIX" is also coded in C language. It has just turned the world of Coding giving new level to programming, and introducing us to what is called "Structured …

About Us

sanyam_khurana — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:48:00 +0530

Welcome to the About Us page, finally you want to know us, and it matters a lot to us. We are a team of Tech Enthusiasts, Coders and Open Source lovers.

This blog is an effort to bring people closer to the world of Technology and make them comfortable with …