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…

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’…

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…
Terraform

The case against Terraform to prevent vendor lock-in.

While I like Terraform, using it to prevent vendor lock in is bul***it; The belief of preventing vendor lock in is a false promise of…

Achievement Unlocked: AWS Certified Developer Assoc. (DA)

After many months of delay and procrastination I finally scheduled to sit the AWS Developer Assoc. exam. I was passing the practice exams from acloud.guru…