A Quick Start Guide To Begin Using The Selenium IDE
This guide is a way to help those not familiar with Selenium IDE to get up to speed quickly, so they can begin recording and play back tests. Read more
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 Almost every app we build these days requires us to send email notifications somewhere along the way. This may be a registration email, a password change, or some other information. Of course, sending those emails require an account and SMTP setup. Typically we grab a developer email address to start and then move over to an app email later. For example, we will create [email protected] or a similar address to handle the sending and receiving of emails. The challenge for all of this is that we are... Read more
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 a low entry cost tool that can grow to a valuable enterprise solution. What Does Cloud Watch Do? In the world of odd names for Amazon services, this one ignores the trend. The name sums up the service very well. This one helps you watch your cloud services on Amazon. The tool works in a fashion similar to other monitoring options on the market. It provides a way to build dashboards, watches, and send notifications. The tool makes it easy to select from a list of... Read more
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. The AWS snowball service provides a practical solution without requiring weeks of uploading. Snowball is an Appliance The Snowball service Amazon provides is an appliance, not a software service. In this case, Amazon ships you a device for loading your data. Then you send that device to Amazon so that they can load the data onto their cloud. This may seem like a lot of overhead. However, when you are moving massive amounts of data (multiple TB or more), this is a cheaper and more reliable... Read more
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. Read more
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 is great for stability. However, it can make it hard to get an increased bill rate later. Here are a few actions that can help open that door to conversation. Increased Bill Rate For A New Project A new project is one of the best ways to talk about a better rate. The work you bill for is almost always going to change in some way from project to project. A new project may require a different role or focus. This should be part of the emphasis... Read more