Castletown House and Parklands
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Author: Sinaru Gunawardena
Control Philips Hue with Google Assistant SDK on Ubuntu
Introduction I’ve a Philips Hue bridge and a set of bulbs. On the other hand, Google has an SDK for their Google Assistant. By combining these two, I was able to create a simple Linux application that identifies your custom voice command and map those commands to control the bridge. In this guide, I will … Continued
Killarney, Ireland
I visited Killarney for the long weekend from Dublin. It is about 4 hours and 30 minutes from Dublin by Bus. The town is small and people seem to be very happy with life.
Dingle, Ireland
I traveled to Dingle. It was a very sunny day so everything looked really great. Dingle town is also a small nice place. 🙂
Opening Right-click Menu / Context menu with Selenium WebDriver
Selenium WebDriver providesActionBuilder to perform complex user interactions with a web page. It allows chaining multiple actions together to perform a complex action. You can create a complex action and execute the action (perform) it in the following manner. (Ruby)
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<span class="id identifier rubyid_driver">driver</span><span class="period">.</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_action">action</span><span class="period">.</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_key_down">key_down</span><span class="lparen">(</span><span class="symbol">:shift</span><span class="rparen">)</span><span class="period">.</span> <span class="id identifier rubyid_click">click</span><span class="lparen">(</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_element">element</span><span class="rparen">)</span><span class="period">.</span> <span class="id identifier rubyid_click">click</span><span class="lparen">(</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_second_element">second_element</span><span class="rparen">)</span><span class="period">.</span> <span class="id identifier rubyid_key_up">key_up</span><span class="lparen">(</span><span class="symbol">:shift</span><span class="rparen">)</span><span class="period">.</span> <span class="id identifier rubyid_drag_and_drop">drag_and_drop</span><span class="lparen">(</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_element">element</span><span class="comma">,</span> <span class="id identifier rubyid_third_element">third_element</span><span class="rparen">)</span><span class="period">.</span> <span class="id identifier rubyid_perform">perform</span> |
The action to open the context menu is context_click() .
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<span class="id identifier rubyid_driver">driver</span><span class="period">.</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_action">action</span><span class="period">.</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_context_click">context_click</span><span class="lparen">(</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_el">webdriver_element</span><span class="rparen">)</span><span class="period">.</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_perform">perform</span> |
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How to ignore PostgreSQL tables when restoring a database
At my current workplace, we use a copy of the backup database which is created by pg_dump to restore in our development machines. Since the database has a lot of code>audit files which adds up a lot of space, I needed an easier way to ignore these files when restoring the database. Apparently pg_restore can generate a list of … Continued
Wexford, Ireland
I traveled to Wexford with my office colleague on the weekend. IT was a nice county and we traveled to a number of places. A post shared by Sinaru (@sinaru.g) on Feb 17, 2018 at 5:45am PST A post shared by Sinaru (@sinaru.g) on Feb 18, 2018 at 7:22am PST
Improving online gaming experience over IEEE 802.11ac WiFi
This article is how to get a great online gaming experience with a stable and fast WiFi connection over IEEE 802.11ac. This article only focuses on IEEE 802.11ac because it is the best wifi standard we have right now for a great wifi experience that can sometimes be equivalent to Ethernet cables if not better for the daily … Continued
Belfast, Ireland
Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland. It is also popular as the place where Titanic was built. A post shared by Sinaru (@sinaru.g) on Dec 23, 2017 at 6:27am PST
Vagrant – Running Rails server in the background
Let’s say when you boot up or restart your virtual machine, you want to run the Rails server in the background for your Rails application. It is pretty easy. First, let’s create a function for the script block. Put following code on the top of the Vagrant file. def start_rails_server <<-SHELL cd /vagrant # start … Continued