AndroidGrailsTechnology

Push Notification in Android Using Grails

Hi All, I had a use case where I need to send the push notification to Android Device using Grails Application. For sending push notification I have used the Android GCM plugin. So, before going further we should know what is push notification and how it works. Push Notification : It is a message or […]

Technology

Getting familiar with Sitemaps

About Sitemap Sitemap is an XML file that include URLs of a website and their basic information like last updated, how often it changes and how much important it is as compared to other URLs by giving its priority. Purpose of Sitemap The information listed in Sitemap.xml file is used by the search engines to […]

AWS

Setup AMAZON AURORA DB Cluster

AWS announced its new database service for customers called “Amazon Aurora” which I have been waiting for since a long time. It delivers up to 5X performance of MySQL with high availability in 3 different regions. As it is new to all of us, so today we will be having hands on experience on AURORA […]

Technology

iOS : Working with collection view layouts

In this blog we are going to discuss about “Collection View Custom Layouts” and “Switching between two collection view layouts” in iOS development. First of all we will know about Collection View Layouts. What Is a Layout? UICollectionViewLayout is an abstract class that should not be created itself; its only purpose is to be subclassed. […]

AWSTechnology

Block admin login page attack using Fail2ban

Recently on my project, someone did brute force attack over the login page of WordPress with multiple IPs. In the first response, we have blocked those IP on Nginx conf and later we realized, it would be better if we do it through IPtables. However, this was not enough as we need the manual intervention on the daily […]

Technology

Integrating SpringBoot with Gradle

Springboot support is provided by most of the build tools e.g. Gradle and Maven. Though grails 3.x comes with Springboot and gradle integration, there might come scenarios where you just want to create a very small and simple build that does specific task e.g. a build that will just run some threads and trigger some […]

Technology

The power of YouTube Analytics

  YouTube, the most widespread and popular video site on the web today is humongous in many aspects. YouTube’s growth is still fast-tracking despite taut competition from Facebook and others. Since its launch in November- 2009, YouTube has been home to everything from shaky home movies to fully produced videos. As well as being the […]

Technology

How to Create an Awesome Thumbnail for YouTube

Working on YouTube is fun! Not only limited to video-sharing, YouTube includes video clips, TV clips, music videos, and other content such as video blogging, short videos, and educational videos. Yes, you do the uploading and sharing of your content, but is that all? How is it that you will market your content for the […]

Application SecurityTechnology

Preventing Brute Force attacks due to OpenSSH Vulnerability (MaxAuthTries bypass)

About OpenSSH OpenSSH is an open-source suite of programs that helps us to secure network communications by encrypting the network traffic over many authentication methods and it provides secure tunneling. It eliminates eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other such attacks. Let’s learn Preventing Brute Force attacks due to OpenSSH Vulnerability (MaxAuthTries bypass). Vulnerability We have servers […]