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Posted on Become a Better Developer

Keeping Your IT Career on Track

One of the challenges faced by everyone that embraces a career is keeping those fires burning.  It is in our nature to want to experience new things and meet different challenges.  Oh sure, there are those that are perfectly happy with a job that is the same day in and day out.  However, we have already established that our nature does not allow that contentment (or resignation). Starting Your IT Career The first decade or so of an IT career is jam-packed with new.  This newness includes languages, tools, problems, and more.  There is just an overwhelming amount of things to learn and master.  That often leads to a feeling of drinking from the firehose every day we go to... Read more

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Posted on A Summary Of Amazon Services

AWS Security Services (Part 1)

The compliance, identity, and security services of AWS covers a large number of offerings.  Therefore, we will review these in a multi-part series of episodes.  The power and infrastructure provided by choosing AWS for your cloud provider become apparent with these tools.  We have a lot to cover in this first part. Access and Identity Management This should be the first step in your use of the AWS services.  AIM is a framework or set of features to help you define users, permissions, roles, and manage them.  Nearly every function points back to AIM as the way to set up and configure access as well as security for that service.  If you do not have at least a fundamental understanding of... Read more

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Posted on Free and Low Cost Tools

Social Site Management Tools – Free and Low-Cost

Social networking is all the rage.  Unfortunately, all of those platforms that allow us to share our story can be hard to keep up with.  When you want to reach out to customers on more than one platform then it is time to look at these social site management tools. Social Site Management Most of the tools we discuss start with the ability to post content to multiple platforms.  While that is highly useful (and time-saving), it is just the beginning.  The more advanced tools offer the ability to track responses, view analytics reports, and even manage all your social networking from one location. The List There is a broad range of solutions that fall into this family of applications.  Thus,... Read more

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Posted on Patterns of Software Design

Software Design – The Bridge Pattern

The Bridge Pattern is commonly configured but often due to templates and generators rather than understanding the true intent.  Since it is more of a design than code implementation, it can be easily missed.  Nevertheless, it is one we often have available and should probably take advantage of more often. The Bridge Pattern Defined As always, we will start with the “Gang of Four” intent to set the stage for our discussion. “Decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently.” This is simple and easy to see in code.  How often have you seen (for example) an interface and then a class that is the implementation of it?  I have worked on numerous Spring applications that follow this pattern... Read more

Posted on Google Cloud Tour

Using the Google Cloud SDK to Deploy Your Containers

Welcome to the 3rd and final part of our video on our Introduction to Google Cloud. In this final installment, we are going to continue on with our discussion on how to use the Google Cloud SDK tool to deploy your containers from a desktop to the cloud Kubernetes Engine. Using the Google Cloud SDK to Deploy Your Containers Google Cloud Desktop CLI SDK Building and versioning containers Deploying containers Other videos in Introduction to Google Cloud series: Understanding and using the Google Cloud Platform Google Cloud Counsel: Using the interface and platform to deploy containers Using the Google Cloud SDK to Deploy Your Containers Additional Resources you will need: Google Cloud Account Google Cloud SDK This series comes from our mentoring/mastermind classes.... Read more

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Loving Your Job or a Workaholic?

I should reiterate before I go into this topic that I am not a doctor.  I also did not spend last night in a Holiday Inn Express.  The next few paragraphs are not an informed medical opinion.  Instead, they are my views on loving your work and being a workaholic.  There is a difference between these two attitudes.  It is one you need to understand in case you need some help. The Workaholic First, there is a distinct difference between doing something through addiction (you cannot live without it) as opposed to because you enjoy it.  This distinction is vital for your health and also for our goal of a dominating career.  In our case, if you work because you feel... Read more