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1. Being in Houston while Rodeo is in town!

   Well, what else? The logical step is to be at the Rodeo then!

   Getting there:

   Driving to Rodeo started good, went a bit haywire and ended smooth!

   

   The location was NRG Park. Navigation instructions sometimes showed the destination as 'NRG Grounds'. That being my first time in Texas, the logistics …

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2. Task management using self-hosted calendar instead of To-Do lists in Google Keep

   With this blog post by a professor I read a while ago, I started contemplating if I should migrate my task management too from a to-do list based one to a calendar based one.

   In the last 12 months, my task management approaches evolved from a Google Keep-only (for reminders …

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3. TFVC (TFS) for Git users - (Part 1)

   First off, Git is a distributed version control system (DVCS) while TFVC (not TFS. See next line) is a centralized version control system (Centralized VCS).

   Also, a common confusion is that Team Foundation Server (TFS) is the version control system. Not quite a correct comparison.

   

   TFS is a suite of …

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4. Managing documentation on a continuous basis

   One of my co-workers asked this week about best practices for documenting applications developed for a client project. As I started compiling guidelines coupled with my experiences, it grew long enough to be its own blog post. So I share it here for everyone to read.

   I'm always curious to …

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5. MUnit 2 - JSON exact match in Mule 4

   I see unit tests to be returning contents that exactly match the intent. JsonUnit was very helpful when I was working with Mule 3 but this time I wanted to get the default matchers (MUnit 2) available in Mule 4 to work

   After many trials, I got this setup to …

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6. Pay your shared expenses proactively

   Have you been using Splitwise (Here's the download link) or a similar expense-sharing app for letting your friends pay for your expenses and settle later? I hear you. We always pay our debts

   

   Attribution

   Issue:

   But, how can one make sure that expenses are recorded in personal ledgers immediately …

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7. Calculating difference between timestamps with varying zone information in Mule 4

   This week, I was designing a queue monitoring solution in the simplest possible way I could to alert users via email. One of the programming tasks was to determine the time elapsed from last 6 hours (for example).

   I used Mule 4's Scheduler component, a near replacement to Poll scope …

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8. Self-hosting Jitsi for video calls/conferencing and first contribution to open source project

   Are you looking for a self-hosted platform for video calls for personal use or across your organization? I recommend Jitsi for its quick and direct installation steps.

   I could successfully install all required Jitsi components and was able to pull my friends into a call. However none of us could …

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9. Arguments for food intake management

   (Note: I hold no verifiable credentials to advise you on this kind of work at the time of writing this. Check the 'About' page for my credentials)

   The Question

   The lack of education pointed to in the sentences that follow is specifically in relation to food. I start this article …

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