Month: October 2018
‘SpotInst’; use EC2 instance types dynamically to save money.
Save money, use more spot instances.
Run Linux GUI applications on Windows 10
Running Linux applications on Windows is now possible, including GUI based applications.
Achievement Unlocked! All AWS Associate + Practitioner Certifications obtained.
In a little a year I have been able to take and pass all 3 associate + practitioner certifications from AWS. Here are my thoughts…
Dupdob’s “Unit testing, you’re doing it wrong”
Over on Medium Dupdob has published probably one of the the best articles about unit testing I have seen this year. While opinionated based on…
All-Day-DevOps: A free day long virtual conference.
Alldaydevops is presenting a day long virtual conference today.
PHP 5 End of Life is upon us; why you should care.
PHP 5 is reaching end of life. Find out what this means to you and your organization if you rely on a PHP 5 application…
4 part Javascript module by Benny Powers
Benny Powers over on Dev.to has put together an excellent series centering around the concept of Javascript modules. I am not a frontend (browser) engineer…
Disable location requests from websites in Chrome 68+
These days it seems that every other website wants to send you desktop notifications or know your location. Well, I got tired of clicking ‘block’…
Migrating from AWS EC2 to AWS Lightsail.
Migrating a Wordpress App from EC2 to Lightsail for cost savings.
Web Application Security
Recently found an excellent series on web application security (WASec) from odino.org. The series covers topics from DNS resolution and http exchange to CSP header…