Mika Koivisto Hands-On Solution Architect / Payments & Open Banking
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Notes on banking, code & home automation

How to Create a Consistent Liferay Backup

This is a question I’ve gotten asked in nearly all the Liferay System Administrator trainings I’ve given. Most people will just backup their database and Liferay data directory separately but any competent system admin will tell you…

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Debugging Maven Plugins

When developing maven plugins things don’t always work the way you expect so you need to debug the Mojo to see what’s really going on. I had a weird case where my plugin worked when I ran it independently but when I ran it with mvn…

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Don’t pay bank fees

Bank fees will add up quickly and you really shouldn’t need to pay your bank any fees. I primarily bank at Chase and they charge $6 account maintenance fee if you don’t have at least 5 debit card transactions or a minimum $500 direct…

The new 1080p HD Apple TV

The new 1080p HD Apple TV package from Amazon was waiting for me yesterday when I came from work to home. The package looks the same as previous version and contains the same things: the sleek black apple tv, aluminium IR remote and…

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  • tv

Creating Liferay Themes with Maven

Some time ago I posted on how you can get started creating portlets with Liferay Maven SDK now I’m going to show how you can add themes to your project. If you need a refresher on how to get started check out this post . 1) Open command…

LifeProof case for iPhone

My old iPhone case broke sometime ago and I need to protect my iPhone 4 so I thought I’d give LifeProof a try since it is supposed to make it water, dirt, snow and shock resistant. Check out the video where the guy demonstrating it goes…

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  • iphone
  • lifeproof