Wish you Happy New Year 2021

I wish you all a happy and healthy new year 2021.

Tell me what do you feel about 2020 in the comments.

2020 wasn’t bad for me, it was just different and taught us a lot especially how to leverage technology to connect and get the job done.

I used 2020 to go within myself

I felt a deeper connection with family members in 2020.

I also finished another programming certification in 2020.

I finish Sri sri yoga teachers training program, which helped me get rid of extra weight on the body and stress on the mind.

I did several Art of living meditation programs

I hope 2021 would come with freedom without restriction to wear masks 😉

#newyear2020 #programming #yoga #mentalhealthmatters #premaseem

My top 5 Clifton Strengths

Strengths, Not Skills, Are the Difference Makers for Winning Teams,

Here are my top 5 strengths.

1. Adaptability – I tend to be a “now” person and Able to switch my mind and focus based on priority. 

2. Positivity- I have infectious energy and enthusiasm to motivate and inspire my team. 

3. Connectedness – I build bridges between people and groups.

4. Developer – I encouragement helps others learn, grow and improve.

5. Input – My strength to collect and organize knowledge empowers me to make credible and well-informed decisions for my team.

Prem Aseem got first prize in poem recitation

I got first prize in poem recitation 🙂 for Gurudev 108 Vidhya Sagar ji Maharaj 🙏

Moment of Proud for THALA WALE family and parents Sunita Atul Jain

All credit goes to my sister Nidhi Sarraf for creating the beautiful poem.

Certificate: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2019

This certificate above verifies that Aseem Jain successfully completed the course AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2019 on 09/25/2019 as taught by Ryan Kroonenburg, Faye Ellis on Udemy. The certificate indicates the entire course was completed as validated by the student.

Encryption or password protection using Symmetric key

1. Create a sample file
   echo “This is my secret message” > message.txt
2. Encrypt a file
   openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -in message.txt -out message.txt.enc
3. Decrypt a file
   openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -in message.txt.enc -pass pass:myPassword

Follow above commands on linux box to protect a text or a file with password.

Do not judge people by a piece of paper

My article on Ethical Hacking got published :-)

Feeling happy to share that “Ethical Hacking is Hacking to Help” is my article which got published in #accion May newsletter.  Last time the article was authored by Company’s CTO.

Link of article is: https://www.accionlabs.com/blog/2019/5/30/ethical-hacking-is-hacking-to-help?rq=aseem%20jain/

It’s a quick n fun read, if you have a couple of minutes, click the link and read it. 

Farewell to Krystal my fitness coach

Krystal Sala is my fitness coach and kickboxing instructor. She is really hard working, she goes to college and does 2 jobs. She is taking a break from 9 round to relax a bit. Hey Krystal, Wish you all the best for the future.

Dynamodb: How to run dynamodb locally

DynamoDb is a cloud managed server provided by AWS – Amazon web service. Technically, you cannot install and manage it on your own for your production system. However for testing purpose, AWS provides the ways to run it locally and avoid hitting cloud service all the time to save some money.

The easiest way is to pull docker image and run it locally

Follow below steps to run dynamodb locally

# pull image from docker hub provided by AWS – https://hub.docker.com/r/amazon/dynamodb-local/

docker pull amazon/dynamodb-local

# run image

docker run -p 8000:8000 amazon/dynamodb-local

Hit this url on browser  to test dynamodb is working

http://localhost:8000/shell/

Git: Testing Someone Else’s Pull Request on your local dev machine

You do not have to clone every developer’s fork or repository  and then checkout their respective branch in order to test the pull request locally on your dev box 😉

This tutorial will show you how to checkout a pull request on your own computer. This can be very helpful when you want to find bugs and test out new features before they get merged into the main project.

That gist does describe the config changes required in .git/config of the project.

Basically you need to add this line in config

fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*

which will allow you to checkout pr locally

Obviously, change the github url to match your project’s URL. It ends up looking like this:

[remote "origin"]
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
    url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git
    fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*

Now fetch all the pull requests:

$ git fetch origin
From github.com:joyent/node
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/1000/head -> origin/pr/1000
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/1002/head -> origin/pr/1002
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/1004/head -> origin/pr/1004
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/1009/head -> origin/pr/1009
...

To check out a particular pull request:

$git checkout <pr-id>

$ git checkout pr/999
Branch pr/999 set up to track remote branch pr/999 from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'pr/999'