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Home Automation - Garage Door

Posted on 2017-04-10 | 3 minutes | Kent Hua

It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally managed to automate my garage. Thus far I’ve had my home automation setup give me information about my home, turning lights on and off, and adjusting the temperature of my nest. [Read More]

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OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 CI/CD with Jenkins

Posted on 2016-09-01 | 2 minutes | Kent Hua

I recently jumped into Jenkins pipelines. Though OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 currently only includes Jenkins 1.x and not Jenkins 2.x, we are still able to leverage the new pipeline plugin. The new pipeline plugin leverages a Jenkinsfile based on groovy to define the pipeline steps, called stages. [Read More]

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Home automation with a series of open source tools and a smart home hub

Posted on 2016-08-09 | 3 minutes | Kent Hua

So for the past few years I’ve managed with just a smartthings hub gen 1, prior to the acquisition by Samsung. In an effort to try and present as much information of what’s happening in the household, I’ve mounted old smartphones and tablets on the wall. [Read More]

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JBoss Data Grid 7.0 - Remote Query via Hot Rod Java, Register protobuf marshaller and schema

Posted on 2016-08-02 | 4 minutes | Kent Hua

JDG 7.0 is out and provides some cool new features. Such as a web console, which is only available in the new domain mode. Prior to JDG 7.0, in Remote Client-Server mode, you ran individual clustered standalone instances. [Read More]

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OpenShift Container Platform Local (formerly cdk) v2.1

Posted on 2016-07-18 | 1 minutes | Kent Hua

Red Hat provides you with a local OpenShift 3 environment within it’s container development kit, known as OpenShift Container Platform Local. Reference the instructions for your specific platform. This is all available to you with a free Red Hat Developers subscription. [Read More]

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OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 - router sharding

Posted on 2016-07-11 | 4 minutes | Kent Hua

Tested: OCP 3.2.1.4 So I decided to give router sharding a try in the new OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 release. This is just a quick way to get started along with some documentation links. [Read More]

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Migration from blogger to Jekyll (hosted on github)

Posted on 2016-06-30 | 1 minutes | Kent Hua

I’ve updated the underlying blog hosted on blogger to jekyll hosted on github. Migrating the content was fairly easy. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to migrate previous comments, it will now be hosted on disqus. [Read More]

JBoss BPM Suite - Vacation Request Process / Demo

Posted on 2016-05-09 | 2 minutes | Kent Hua

In the process of working with a partner and customer, I developed a Vacation Request business process. As part of the process I wanted to demonstrate human tasks, service calls and a business rule. [Read More]

JBoss BxMS 6.2 updates and findings (kie-server & githook)

Posted on 2016-04-18 | 2 minutes | Kent Hua

kie-server Following my previous post for BRMS kie-server's significant changes from 6.1 to 6.2. I did some additional testing and documented some high level API commands in my github gist. [Read More]

JBoss BRMS Decision Server 6.2 (kie-server)

Posted on 2016-02-17 | 2 minutes | Kent Hua

So quite a bit has changed between Decision Server 6.1 and Decision Server 6.2. The way you interact with kie-server, such as registering a server and adding your containers. There are also changes to the kie-server URL and the payload generator as well. [Read More]