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📅 July 5, 2017 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 3 minutes read

Building Your Portfolio and Presenting it to Prospects

Once a customer has been won, there are always others to impress. The good news is that it gets easier to win the contracts past the first. However, a smart approach includes building your…

📅 June 27, 2017 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 6 minutes read

Winning Your First IT Consulting Project

The hardest part of IT consulting arguably is landing that first customer and project. This is obviously one of the important steps in a successful career. Unfortunately, it often is where dreams of consulting…

📅 June 20, 2017 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 2 minutes read

Incorporating User Experience Into Your Solution From The Start

In this third episode of the Creating a Software Solution series we look at the user experience. The key to a software solution is solving a problem that needs to be addressed. However, a solution…

📅 June 19, 2017 AWS Tour ⏱ 2 minutes read

Amazon App Stream – Run Your Applications Anywhere

In the list of AWS resources, I think AppStream (2.0) is one of the most powerful and innovative. What is AppStream? This service is another bundle of features that add up to a solution…

📅 June 12, 2017 AWS Tour ⏱ 2 minutes read

Amazon Chime – Keep In Touch

The Chime application from Amazon has a very limited free tier option (limited to two people) but does have a thirty-day trial. Better yet, the trial does not require a credit card and simply…

📅 June 7, 2017 AWS Tour ⏱ 2 minutes read

Amazon Athena – Spreadsheet to Database Conversion

The tour of Amazon AWS services moves to Athena this week. This service is a utility on top of S3 that allows you do queries of data files stored there. Thus, it is a…

📅 June 1, 2017 AWS Tour ⏱ 3 minutes read

Amazon WorkSpaces – The True Road Warrior Solution

The next stop on our AWS tour is Amazon Workspaces. This service allows you to launch a virtual desktop you can access anywhere quickly. Thus, no more lugging around a laptop. Now you can…

📅 May 30, 2017 AWS Tour ⏱ 2 minutes read

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

There is a broad range of services included in Amazon’s AWS. The offerings include an easy way to subscribe to and send, notifications in a variety of methods. This product is called the Simple Notification…

📅 May 29, 2017 Build A Product Catalog ⏱ 2 minutes read

Product Catalog: Understand the ways to store data

This next lesson covers the different types of ways to store data for your Catalog. This lesson gets a little more technical and hands on.

📅 May 25, 2017 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 2 minutes read

How to Create an Effective Clickable Demo

In this second episode of the Creating a Software Solution series we look at the clickable demo. This tactic is used to help speed software design and becoming very common. However, an effective clickable…