I have been investigating the problem of practical code transformation to deal with small changes that have to be made across a large collection of programs in different programming languages . So the problem is not to transform a program entirely but doing small transformations to a large set of programs that too when we have C, Perl, Java etc source programs in that set. This has practical application in software development, code refactoring and testing. A lot of cost savings in software testing is possible if test the suits are well maintained and are automagically transformed using some method. I used a method and published findings on ip.com which is rather a full system explanation of what I described here in 2011 There are some interesting obstacles to transforming programs. I will try to explain as well as understand some of them through this post. When we want to transform a set of programs in different languages what we are dealing with is a bun...
Sun's ceo calls it Lookout! But many use it including me. Managing contacts in Outlook is tricky. Here are few things I do when I move. By default all email ids are recorded in a file called Outlook.NK2 which is, by generocity of Microsoft, hidden. These are used to auto fill when we type an emil id. These are not stored in the address book. Its default location is: C:\Documents and Settings\ \ Application Data \Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.NK2 is your user login id on the computer. Application Data is a folder that is hidden from view. Go to Tools->View and select Show Hidden files. When I move, I copy/backup this file. When I setup outlook on new machine, I zimbly copy the backup file to the default location in the new machine. Address book is a sacred thing. Mine is mostly empty! To manage autofill email address we can use a freeware availale online. It is called NK2View (Download).
**GET YOUR SETTINGS REVIEWED BY AN EXPERT BEFORE YOU GO LIVE** You will find a lot of information in bits and pieces all over the Internet, too much technical jargon peppered all over. If you do not know how https works, do not worry. It is not hard to setup https. Lets say the https setup encrypts stuff between browser and the website and move on to set up https for your website. The keys are a couple of files needed to encrypt your website and these keys need to be signed by CA or the certificate authority in order for browsers to recognise that traffic is properly encrypted. I will use nginx web server and centos7 operating system to show how https can be setup. If you use a different webserver like apache or os like ubuntu look up corresponding instructions elsewhere. So here go the steps: 1. Get a free CA signed certificate 2. Update your web server to use the certificates and enable https 3. Setup certificate renewal and optimize and se...
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