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Content Management Tools (Free and Low-cost)

📅 October 5, 2018 • Free and Low Cost Tools • ⏱ 3 minutes read

Content management systems were all the rage about a decade ago. However, that market has settled down a lot and has only a few top contenders. That may not matter to you…

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Software Design – The Prototype Pattern

📅 October 3, 2018 • Patterns of Software Design • ⏱ 3 minutes read

Our tour of the creational patterns takes us to one of the fastest ways to create a new instance. The prototype pattern provides an option to clone an instance rather than create and then…

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The AWS Networking and Content Delivery Services

📅 October 1, 2018 • A Summary Of Amazon Services • ⏱ 3 minutes read

The AWS networking and content delivery services provide you the means to put your infrastructure in the cloud. These offerings are focused on the networking side of things (as the name tells us)…

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Web Tracking and Visitor Recording Tools

📅 September 28, 2018 • Free and Low Cost Tools • ⏱ 3 minutes read

A few years ago I stumbled across the ideas of heatmaps and recording for websites. This is one of the most potent user experience improvement tools available. The ability for visitor recording…

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Software Patterns – Factory Method

📅 September 26, 2018 • Patterns of Software Design • ⏱ 3 minutes read

We continue our exploration of the creation patterns with a look at the Factory Method. This is a pattern where we see that instantiation is sometimes better when deferred. We do not always…

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Launching a Side-Hustle

📅 September 25, 2018 • General • ⏱ 2 minutes read

When we think about a side-hustle it does not seem like the concept of the launch comes to mind. This is underestimating the work that should go into such an effort. A side-hustle is…

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Keeping Up With Technological Advances

📅 September 24, 2018 • Become a Better Developer • ⏱ 3 minutes read

We all know that technology moves fast. That makes it a full-time job just to keep up with the latest technological advances. Fortunately, there are many ways for us to make keeping…

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The Amazon Migration Services

📅 September 24, 2018 • A Summary Of Amazon Services • ⏱ 2 minutes read

In this episode, we look at the migration group of services. We have already discussed a few of these and will focus on the ones that are new to us. These services…

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Code Review and Analysis Tools (Free and Low-Cost)

📅 September 21, 2018 • Free and Low Cost Tools • ⏱ 2 minutes read

There have been a lot of excellent free and low-cost reviewed already. However, this week we continue our “shopping” with a look at code review and analysis applications. This used to be…

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