Sunday, February 15, 2015

Pad Kee Mao Gai

I created a separate cooking blog...

The blog writeup will move permanently here >

http://andresfernandezcooking.blogspot.com/


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I've been cooking Thai cuisine the last 2 years and have learned quite a few dishes.

I've done Lad Na, Pad Thai, Masaman, Pad Prik Khing, and other recipes, but wanted to try something new with Thai basil.

I order a lot from importfood.com, and wanted to use their recipe on the website but did a little more searching to see what the recipe would look like and see the possible variations.

I tried this recipe here : Alosha's Kitchen and with a couple of small modifications, I thought it was a very good recipe.

To keep the heat down to medium, I used only three Thai chilies along with 12 ounces of wide noodles and a pound of chicken. I did use a whole small red onion and a red and yellow pepper; so twice the amount of onion.

If you're using 12 ounces of wide noodles I would recommend a 1/4 cup of fish sauce, slightly a little less of the golden mountain and thick soy sauce and directly mix it with the chicken before putting it in the pan. I also mix my palm sugar with water for easy use and store it in the fridge so I can just pour it on the dish as I'm creating it.

Here's a photo of the finished dish :


Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Comparing UNIX networking commands : netstat, lsof and ss

I've realized recently there's a lot more availability in UNIX commands to look at your network (open ports, etc...).

Some sample commands that do the same thing, which I'll investigate later :


netstat -a -p  | grep 13100

ss -all | grep 13100

lsof -n -i4TCP | grep 13100

These three commands do a lot of similar things, albeit with some minor tweaks; and then pipe it to grep to look at a specific port.

Currently, my favorite for information and formatting is lsof.

I'll write more later...

Monday, February 09, 2015

The simplest resolution or explanation is usually the most common solution

In engineering, we have to diagnose and fix issues all the time.

In my case I've found that the problems I encounter when I find a build broken, a class that won't compile, or a problematic configuration that won't make a application run, is most likely due to a slight misconfiguration, misspelling, or not reading the directions thoroughly.

In other words, the easiest solution is usually the most common fix to a problem you've encountered.

Maybe this is why we have Occam's Razor as a principle?

Exploring ELK (Elastic) Stack for hack-a-thon

At my current gig, our group finally got to do hack-a-thon week and I joined a team project that tied together a few of the technologies I&#...