Month: April 2020

  • Fun with Patent Data: Thomas Edison Jupyter Notebook

    Thomas Alva Edison was a famous American inventor and businessman, “described as America’s greatest inventor”, and was one of the most prolific inventors in US history. Thomas Edison was granted/filed 1084 patents from 1847-1931.[1] He’s just one cool inventor – lamps, light bulbs, phonograph and so many more life changing inventions. Google Patents has a wonderful…

  • AppDev: Zookeeper Port Forwarding to all servers from local machine

    To simply testing with Zookeeper on a remote Kafka cluster, one must connect to the client application ports on the backend.  When the remote Kafka cluster has multiple nodes and behind a firewall and a SSH jump server, the complexity is fairly high.  Note, the SSH jump server is the permitted man in the middle. …

  • AppDev: Forwarding DGram in node.js

  • Testing: Dynamic Test-NG Tests

    In my last few projects, I have used Test-NG.  Uniquely in my current project, I had to generate tests programmatically.  Instead of writing one test for each element in the project, I am able to generate a bunch at-will using the following pattern: Factory package test; import org.testng.annotations.Factory; public class DynamicTestFactory { @Factory public Object[]…

  • Release 4.1.0 – Lessons Learned in Development

    Using IBM Db2 with IBM FHIR Server Using ibm/db2 docker and using with IBM FHIR Server