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July 16, 2018July 16, 2018 AWS Tour

Amazon Elastic Container Service – Containers Made Easy

Containers are a big deal in development. This is an excellent tool for coding but can be a bit of a challenge once we get to deployment. Never fear, Amazon and their AWS offerings have thought about that and provided a solution. This is where the elastic container service comes into play. Instead of creating a virtual system that you can place containers on, this allows you to directly deliver your containers without all of the sizing issues. Pricing and Usage If I have a complaint about Amazon, it is that the pricing can be a bit tricky to figure out. Of course, you always have the option of running a service for days or weeks to get a good... Read more

July 13, 2018July 6, 2018 Create a Small Product

Creating Your Product Requirements

In this episode, we look at creating the product requirements for our side hustle software. Even though we have a lot of this information in our head, it is good practice to put it on paper. This exercise will help us think through our plan more thoroughly before we begin. It will also give us another experience in building out product requirements on our journey to become better developers. The Users It helps to think about the end users from the start. This is the audience for your product and the ultimate deciders whether this is a success or not. You can stay broad in your definition. However, the more specific you can make your ideal users the better your product will... Read more

July 11, 2018July 3, 2018 Get Started With Online Consulting

The Kick Off For Online Consulting

This episode kicks off a new season focused on how to launch your online consulting side hustle. The weekly episodes will walk you through making a plan, creating marketing materials, landing a customer, and then repeat business. Time to get started. Set Your Online Consulting Goals Any good business starts with a vision. You need to take this step even with your side hustle. Consider your goals, maybe even a vision statement for your side hustle. Your intentions may be to learn more skills, earn some extra income, or tackle a broader range of projects. All of these are reasonable goals and will help you decide what customers are the best fit for you. Customers do not just choose you. Your goals... Read more

July 10, 2018October 16, 2018 Tech Notes

Building a Selenium-Grid environment with Docker Containers

Before we get started let’s take a moment to get to know Selenium-Grid. Selenium-Grid allows you run your Selenium tests on different machines against different browsers in parallel. That is, running multiple tests at the same time against different machines running different browsers and operating systems. Essentially, Selenium-Grid support distributed test execution. It allows for running your tests in a distributed test execution environment. Building a Selenium-Grid environment with Docker Even though we will be using Docker in this demo, we will not be spending much time on the Docker setup and installation. Therefore, I recommend you check out our presentation “Introduction to Docker” for more details on setting up and using Docker. With that being said this demo is a complete walkthrough... Read more

July 9, 2018July 9, 2018 Become a Better Developer

Creating a Software Specification

A tricky part of the application development process is creating a software specification. The requirements do not tend to pose the same problems as specs. Unfortunately, there is too often a spill over into an attempt to define implementation or place restrictions too early. Nevertheless, a software specification is essential to a successful project so let’s look at how to put one together. Start From Requirements When you start out focused on the requirements, it is easier to avoid getting into implementation details. Think of taking one step deeper and moving on rather than going too far into detail. The specifications should be a natural step from requirements. Therefore, those are your outline. With each element, you will have a series of... Read more

July 9, 2018July 1, 2018 Create a Small Product Podcast

Creating a Small Software Product

This episode starts a new series on creating a small software product. Our goal will be to create a passive income application that we can launch within a few months at most. We will get started on our new product immediately, so let’s dive right in. Selecting A Problem Every good product solves a problem. That is where we will begin. Think of a problem that you deal with on a regular basis that could use a solution. This might be a familiar and repetitive task or something you do manually that would benefit from being put in a computer. Once you have a problem to solve then move to the time you are willing to invest. You might only... Read more