Blogs

‘Anytime, anywhere’ is the power given to viewers by the rise of technological sophistications in digital video management.  As the options of watching videos are plenty with many number of platforms mushrooming every day, the content owners behind the screen find it more complex to meet the requirements for distributing videos in all those channels. […]

And we returned with yet another successful NodeSchool event which was bigger than the last one. NodeSchool-Delhi NCR was conducted on July 4, 2015 at TO THE NEW Digital office. This community event basically got its inspiration from NodeSchool – an open source project run by people in order to enable others to organize more community driven […]

It’s been a while since Amazon extended its Route53 service by adding a new feature called Private Hosted Zone which works within VPC. We recently started exploring it and thought of sharing our learning through this blog. Introduction: This feature enables us to route the traffic between various resources present inside a VPC using custom […]

Stored procedures are often preferred over writing long inline queries for getting reports from database. But they tend to change constantly depending on the business logic. The database migration plugin handles the changes in domain structure effectively but too bad the default management of changes in stored procedures is not as effective. We can manage […]

We always need some mechanism to control our front-end application at the time when we bootstrap it. Getting some customization done before kicking in the angular on the front end, can be a desired use case for some of the Angular Applications. It is mainly needed when we have to redirect to an Angular application […]

Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) program automatically compiles Sass files as CSS files. This is an extension of CSS. It allows us to use variables, nested values, mixin, inline imports etc. How to install Sass ? Step 1 – Download and Install Ruby gem (https://rubygems.org/). On a MAC machine, GEM comes pre-installed, so MAC users may […]

Modularizing your application is a good practice because it makes the components reusable, configurable and testable. As we know that angular is on the global scope itself whereas angular.module is a global place to create, register or retrieve angular modules. In other words,  angular.module is a container for other units of your angular application like […]

In Grails 2.x and in some earlier versions, the log4j configuration resides in grails-app/conf/Config.groovy. We can modify log4j closure here to add new categories and tweak the log levels. In development environemnt any changes to log4j closure are loaded automatically without bouncing the application, but not when the application is running from a war. Our […]

AWS recommends to rotate your IAM user’s Access keys periodically. Sometime we create access keys for IAM user and keep using it. We forget to rotate the keys after a period of time, which is not considered as a good practice. Recently, we came across a use case wherein we were supposed to rotate the […]