The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London
Author: benk
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Bypassing Spring Security
Today I set out to provide accessible endpoints to a web application already behind Spring Security. My configuration locks down all requests going to the server (as will be shown below), and there is no easy way of adding an excludes parameter to the DelegatingFilterProxy (see various questions on Stack Overflow). My solution is actually […]
Errors and Solutions for Cassandra with Astyanax
I’m building a DAO using Astyanax, Netflix’s Java client for Cassandra, and I’ve run into a couple issues.
Installing Cassandra on Mac
Diving into Cassandra and, as always, the first step is getting a local stack built. I’ve grown incredibly fond of homebrew, and so here is the one step process:brew install cassandra Viola, installed. The response when finished gives additional guidance: If you plan to use the CQL shell (cqlsh), you will need the Python CQL […]
Poetry by Pablo Neruda
And it was at that age … Poetry arrivedin search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know whereit came from, from winter or a river.I don’t know how or when,no they were not voices, they were notwords, nor silence,but from a street I was summoned,from the branches of night,abruptly from the others,among violent firesor […]
Vignette from Creative Writing
Today I went to a workshop at the church office, at which we learned a bit about poetry and prose. After a couple exercises, we spent a little time developing a vignette. I had prepared to describe arriving at home, but had a change of mind just as we began to write. Here is what […]
On The Road
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that’s why it happened right there and then, that strange red afternoon. Jack Kerouac
Feed the Monster
Hydra excels at taking massive amounts of data and making it interpretable. It’s flexibility and scalability are really put on display when you have a lot of data, like Map-Reduce in Hadoop. Now that I have a local stack running, I need to feed Hydra in order to play with it, much like the Tamagotchi’s […]
Emerald Reflection
2014-3-24 I rose early this morning, eager to catch a fish worthy of dinner with my love. Yesterday’s outing proved less successful, but the crisp air beckoned me onto the water. I didn’t realize that it wouldn’t be that dinner that would make today memorable. My boat, an ’83 Steamer Deluxe, was the top selling […]
Getting Started on Hydra
Dependencies Maven Java 7 SDK RabbitMQ (Instructions provided below) Building 1. Checkout from Github 2. RabbitMQ As described in the Hydra Readme.mdown, Hydra uses rabbitmq for low volume commands and control message exchanges. On a modern Linux systems apt-get install rabbitmq-server and running with the default settings is adequate in most cases. For Mac OS (my environment), I used Homebrew to install it. Super easy […]