A little fun with gource
Every year my employer has a holiday party. This past year I rendered out all the projects we had worked on and put them in a loop on the big… Read More »A little fun with gource
PHP str_word_count’s and validating base64 strings…
Recently I had to validate a string that is was indeed a base64 string and it was indeed an encoded allowable image type. Between str_word_count’s second parameter (returning the string… Read More »PHP str_word_count’s and validating base64 strings…
`Cert Mode`
So I heard an interesting phrase from a networking engineering buddy of mine: ‘Cert Mode’. You can typically tell when someone is in ‘Cert Mode’ when you do not see… Read More »`Cert Mode`
Local user groups: get out more than you put in.
Here in the Tampa bay area we have user groups. Some are small, some are large, some are new, some are long running. But no matter what size, or type, or… Read More »Local user groups: get out more than you put in.
AWS Lambda, S3, and VPC
Found this awesome bit of information floating around the internet: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-access-resources-in-a-vpc-from-your-lambda-functions/
When removing an orphans is bad…
So Docker creates containers, when you stop these containers the container still exists it is simply stopped. And then we create more containers…and more containers…and more containers…until we look at… Read More »When removing an orphans is bad…
AWS Lambda and automated testing.
So as you can see from my previous posts I recently developed a AWS Lambda function that pulls data from S3, processes it, and updates a database. Now the problem:… Read More »AWS Lambda and automated testing.
Advice for Professional Developers by Adam Culp
#1 Stop blaming companies for bad code you wrote. Yes there are influences, but it was YOU who created it, not them. #2 Stop blaming company for not training you,… Read More »Advice for Professional Developers by Adam Culp
The pain with AWS Lambda…
…I realize I am a bit new the AWS platform and some things are just impossible, but here is the desired work flow: POST/PUT image to S3 Run node.js app… Read More »The pain with AWS Lambda…
Where should tests live?
…came across this conversation this evening. Interesting topic abut where tests logic should live. https://dev.to/rtfeldman/where-should-tests-live