Convert Date to String in groovy

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat

long lTime = new Date().time

String formattedDate = getUTCDateString(lTime)
println formattedDate

def getUTCDateString(long lTime)
{
Date lDate = new Date(lTime)
def cal = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone('UTC'))
cal.set(lDate[Calendar.YEAR],lDate[Calendar.MONTH],lDate[Calendar.DATE],lDate[Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY],lDate[Calendar.MINUTE],lDate[Calendar.SECOND])
String formattedDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm").format(cal.time);
return formattedDate
}

Check if String is Number

String nbrStr = "30239023902390239023902323"
boolean b = nbrStr.isNumber()
assert b == true

Groovy String to Integer

Converting a String to Number

String nbrStr = "100"
int i = nbrStr.toInteger()
assert i==100

Converting String to Date in Groovy

Recently I was looking for a simple way to convert a String object to a Date format in groovy..
below is the example.

In groovy, its just a one liner to make this happen

String timeStampStr = "2009-12-01T12:36:22Z"
def strDate = new Date().parse("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'",timeStampStr)
println strDate.

Flex3 Animations

1. Easing Functions

Flex3 allows some cool effects using easing functions, you have to experience it.

Easing functions allows to give different effects to the components,

like a Bounce Effect

here is a good link of example based on that, thank you james for it

http://www.jamesward.com/easingFunctionFun/easingFunctionFun.html

Good example to add the animations

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/adding_effects/#section1

Apache2.2 Proxy and Virtual Hosts

I created a Flex application using TWITTER Webservices, Since the CrossDomain policy of Twitter is very strong, My flex app was working on the development mode in flex builder but not outside.

Solution implement a Proxy.. Twitter API is a pure REST API , which uses GET as well as POST requests..

Following solution of Apache Proxy, works with the get request

ServerName mysite.com

ServerAlias tp.mysite.com

DocumentRoot "/var/www/"

AddHandler php5-script .php

AddType text/html .php

ProxyRequests off

Order Allow,Deny

Allow from all

ProxyPass /tproxy/ http://twitter.com/

ProxyPassReverse /tproxy/ http://twitter.com/

RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding

#custom log file

LogLevel debug

ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/caw.local.error.log

CustomLog /var/log/httpd/caw.local.access.log combined

Securing Gitweb

We will secure Gitweb using Apache Module mod_auth_digest.

This document is based on following assumtions

1. Apache2 is running and installed at /etc/apache2 folder
2. gitdomain.com is already present and serving gitweb files
   

Assuming ,


Apache2 is run from /etc/apache2/

• Lets created passwd file in

sudo htdigest -c /etc/apache2/passwd/digest private user1
sudo htdigest /etc/apache2/passwd/digest private user2

Note : Omit the -c flag in order to add new user information to an existing password file.

• Enable the auth-digest sudo a2enmod auth-digest
• Edit the gitdomain.com as following

ServerName gitdomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/gitdomain.com/cgi-bin"
DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/gitdomain.com/cgi-bin

Options Indexes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI
AuthType Digest
AuthName "private"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwd/digest
Require valid-user


SetHandler cgi-script


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.* /gitweb.cgi/$0 [L,PT]



Allow from all


# To debug rewrite rules, which were very painful to figure out
RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/rewrite_log
RewriteLogLevel 9

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/gitweb

• sudo service apache2 restart

Test it with browser if authentication is working.


Suggested Reading
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/auth.html