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This episode tackles the AWS business and productivity tools group of services. It includes Chime, Alexa for business, WorkMail, WorkDocs, and we add a quick look at WorkSpaces. These combine to provide a set of solutions…
Customer Relationship Management Tools – Free and Low-Cost CRM
Customer Relationship Management Tools are big business. You can see examples in vast and expensive solutions like SalesForce.com. However, not every answer is world-class and focused on the enterprise customers. There are also plenty…
Software Design – The Singleton Pattern
The last of the creation patterns we will cover is the Singleton. This is a pattern that has a little controversy around it and may even be an anti-pattern. It is easy to implement,…
Detecting and Avoiding Burnout
Every developer is different in their ability to sustain a high level of productivity for any amount of time. The higher you push productivity and the longer you try to maintain it, the more…
AWS Developer Tools – Your Entire Environment
As we move through the groups of AWS services, the developer tools group is one of the most impressive. Amazon does an excellent job of providing you everything you need to jump right in…
Content Management Tools (Free and Low-cost)
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 or your…
Software Design – The Prototype Pattern
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 set values. …
The AWS Networking and Content Delivery Services
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) rather than…
Virtual Systems On A Budget – Realistic Cloud Pricing
A pet peeve I have with cloud services is that the tutorials and “wizards” are not always practical. The configurations these tools suggest or use by default may be functional, but they also tend…
Web Tracking and Visitor Recording Tools
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 alone brings…