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📅 August 7, 2017 AWS Tour ⏱ 2 minutes read

Simple Email Service from Amazon

As we continue our AWS tour, this stop is the Simple Email Service. This service is a great tool for adding email to your AWS environment. It is secure and scalable. Straightforward and Secure Email…

📅 July 31, 2017 AWS Tour ⏱ 3 minutes read

AWS Cloud Watch – Monitor Your Environment

When you start using some AWS resources, it will become useful to monitor them as well. Thus, Amazon has provided the Cloud Watch service to efficiently accomplish this task. It follows the pattern of being…

📅 July 24, 2017 AWS Tour ⏱ 2 minutes read

Amazon Snowball Solves Your Big Data Problem

One of the problems with using a cloud solution is getting started. You have massive amounts of data that are not in the cloud. However, you want to provide access to that data anywhere.…

📅 July 22, 2017 Overview ⏱ 3 minutes read

Simple Guide to Testing: Don’t Forget To Test Your Code.

It's time to stop neglecting one of the fundamental areas of software development, Testing. In this simple guide, we cover some basics to get you started.

📅 July 16, 2017 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 4 minutes read

Increased Bill Rate: Give Yourself a Raise

One of the keys to signing up a customer is to get a signed contract. When we start out the goal is often to get a long-term deal and lock that customer in. This approach…

📅 July 15, 2017 Build A Product Catalog ⏱ 2 minutes read

Product Catalog: Using Tools and Applications to Interact With Our Data

This next lesson covers the different types of tools you can use to interact the data in your database. Such as DBVisualizer or by building an application.

📅 July 10, 2017 AWS Tour ⏱ 2 minutes read

Cost Explorer – Find Your AWS Budget

The complexities of an enterprise AWS configuration can be staggering. In fact, the ability to determine your required budget can be a blocking factor in moving to AWS. Thus, Amazon has provided the Cost…

📅 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…