Emmanuel Corrales

Oct 11, 2019

Here’s a simple guide on how to remove Git submodules. Lets say I want to remove a Git submodule called drafts.

Jul 29, 2019

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of issues regarding self-signed certificates with Java apps using Gradle as their build tool. The issues were mostly errors like “Exception in thread “main” javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException” or packages that can’t be downloaded because of an invalid certificate. This was caused by Gradle not importing the corporate certificiate pre-installed on my client’s company issued laptop by default. This post is a guide about using a self signed certificate with Gradle.

Jun 13, 2019

I was setting up a CentOS 7 virtual machine using VirtualBox to replicate an existing setup when I discovered that I cannot access the internet even though my VM was setup to use a bridged adapter.

Apr 30, 2019

This past month I’ve been bombarded with lots of issues regarding HTTPS/SSL. The internal Certificate Authority of the company I’m servicing recently changed their root certicate. This caused the services that communicate with other services in their network through HTTPS/SSL to break and receive errors. I’ve been debugging a NodeJS app that is being plagued by these issues. In this post I’ll show you the steps I took to fix this.

Feb 24, 2019

I recently learned the proper way to debug shell scripts. It seems shell scripting has built-in features that can help developers find problems in their script. In this post I will be sharing how I debug scripts before and what is wrong with it while also showing the proper way to do it.