Using AWS cloud infrastructure as webserver
AWS (EC2) + BITNAMI (UBUNTU + TOMCAT + MYSQL) = SCALABLE WEB SERVER As a developer, it would be handy to have that extra spare server for testing / disaster recovery purposes. In this post I am going to show you how to setup an Ubuntu based tomcat server with MySql on AWS. If you are … Read more
Backup your local file(s) / folder in Amazon S3
If you have come this far then I assume that you have an existing AWS account and looking for a quick way to backup your local folder. JetS3t a free open-source java toolkit and application suite for Amazon Simple Storage. In this blog we will use JetS3t’s command-line application called Synchronize which is used to … Read more
Adding fonts to jasper based pdf reports
Recently I was confronted with the task of adding fonts to one of the jasper based projects. The challenge was to create pdf with cyrillic font support, for that matter any fonts that needs to be embedded in pdf has been a challenge in the past. This post details the steps involved in successfully creating … Read more
