Unlock Bilocker USB or NTFS Partition on Ubuntu 18.04

Quick procedure to unlock an USB stick or a NTFS partition encrypted using Bitlocker.

PostgreSQL 11 and Spring Data - Part 1 The Database

In the past I used PostgreSQL as an alternative to Oracle for my experiments. Using a cloud-based development environment is now more practical and efficient than installing a server.

But I regularly find myself in a place where connections are difficult and I cannot access the database or some services from my development environment. In these cases a complete environment installed locally on the laptop is an advantage.

Ubuntu 18.04 on HP Pavilion dv7-1060ez

At the beginning of 2017 I installed my HP Pavilion dv7 with Ubuntu 16.04. One moth ago I realized that the processor is a 64-bit CPU and that for all these years it has never been used as such. HP originally supplied it to me with Windows Vista 32Bit, so I believed that the processor did not support a 64Bit operating system.

SSH Key Management on Ubuntu

I installed my notebook with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Now I must manage the different keys I use to access my GIT repositories on different hosts/services. I found some interesting hints I resume here.

Project Migration to Angular 2: Bootstrap Part 2

This article should be called Bootstrap Part 1 rewinded, because, in the mean time i did move from Angular 2 and Angular-Seed to Angular 4 and Angular CLI.

Build & Deploy Angular 4 Projects

In January, this year, I was dealing with the migration from AngularJS to Angular 2. In the meantime the current version of Angular is 4. I decided to skip Angular 2 and continue with Angular 4.

Ubuntu 16.04 on HP Pavilion dv7

Ten years ago I did buy a big HP laptop which was delivered with Windows Vista. Microsoft now is going to end the support for Vista. The device still works perfectly. I decided to move it to Ubuntu. The dv7-1060ez is a dual core with 4 GB memory and 310 GB hard disk, good candidate to become a usable Ubuntu laptop.

Project Migration to Angular 2: Bootstrap Part 1

The migration of a working application to a more recent platform brings some risks. Generally, some functions cannot be reproduced as is and it takes many times. I wish to move a simple client, programmed using a mix of JavaScript and AngularJS, to Angular 2.