Why its counterproductive to lose sleep over a project or deadline
Due to the high pace world we live in many of us often choose to forgo sleep in order to get more done. However, is losing sleep really productive? Read more
Amazon Rekognition – Easy Facial Recognition
One of the best things about being a developer is the ability to create cool solutions to problems. Of course, as technology advances the definition of cool does as well. For example, the latest buzz-worthy solution out there might be facial recognition. This feature is the ability to scan images and find a match for a person. It is CSI and similar TV program technology, but Amazon has made it more accessible. This latest impressive service from Amazon is called Rekognition. A High-End AWS Service Amazon services are all built in a way that allows hobbyists and low budget companies to ease into some otherwise inaccessible solutions. We have seen this with typical needs like virtual machines, but it does not... Read more
Amazon CodeStar – A Complete Development Environment
During our tour of AWS services, we have touched on several developer tools. We still have several to go, but the recently announced CodeStar is a better way to dive into these services. CodeStar is an Entire Environment The CodeStar service is a wrapper of sorts. It guides you through some steps to select the type of development desired and then it builds out an environment. However, this process does not just build out a development environment. It builds out the tools needed for everything involved in the process. This includes version control, build management, a project wiki, links to Jira for task tracking and more. This service provides you an enterprise development environment quickly and easily. Skip the Details One... Read more
Creating Use Cases and Gathering Requirements
Starting a Project Right When you look at statistics about how often IT projects fail or come up short it is hard to ignore properly defining the problem. Two of the most common themes in failed projects are a lack of definition and a lack of usefulness. In this first step in our video series, we look at finding the “why” for a project. Then we look at how to build and document use cases. Use Cases Done Right There is no magic to creating use cases. All that is required is an understanding of how a process should flow. It is not a technical task or skill, but good use cases do lead to higher success rates in a project.... Read more
Amazon Aurora – Enterprise Database
We have looked at storage and server options from Amazon. Thus, now it is time to look at one the database options. Amazon Aurora is a relational database solution that is an excellent step up from MySQL. Easy To Use Aurora is currently MySQL compatible, and they are working on a PostgreSQL version as well. This offering means that you can use all of your tools and knowledge with MySQL to administer and develop on Aurora. There is no need to think of an Aurora solution as anything other than a production MySQL database. An instance can be brought up in minutes. The size and power, along with credentials, is all you need to get started. An Enterprise Solution Of course,... Read more
Configure Apache For HTTPS
Take the guess work out of Apache HTTPS configuration. Follow the simple steps on how to add HTTPS/SSL encryption to your Apache web server. Read more