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📅 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…

📅 May 22, 2017 Build A Product Catalog ⏱ 2 minutes read

Product Catalog: An Overview on the Basics and Design

If you are building an online store or just need a place to record your inventory then chances are you are looking to build a Product Catalog.

📅 May 16, 2017 AWS Tour ⏱ 3 minutes read

Amazon VPC – Your Virtual Private Cloud

As we continue our tour of Amazon services, we come to the VPC service. This service is not a part of their free tier, but instead one of the enterprise-focused offerings. This service allows you…