While there is no doubt the quality of all speakers at the two day conference were exceptional, four of them in particular stood out to me and I wanted to highlight some of their insight here both for my own benefit, and to help consolidate for anyone who may be Read more…
I recently had to setup PHP 5.6 explicitly for testing and verifying work on a client website. Given Ubuntu 14.04LTS natively supports PHP 5.5.9, and the defacto standard ondrej/ppa is now installing PHP7 it took me a bit to understand exactly how to get 5.6 so we could verify tests and Read more…
Ever needed to setup a local SaaS app development server? Is your /etc/hosts file a mess? Me too! Landrush to the rescue! Previously you’d setup dnsmasq locally to handle this on your physical machine, but if you’re in Vagrant you need to point to the IP of the virtual machine Read more…
My team and I regularly deal with remote SSH connections to AWS and other third party services, and part of that requires several concurrent terminal sessions running scripts, processes, etc. Frequently, we encounter the dreaded: Write failed: broken pipe. There are a couple ways to mitigate this: SSH Configuration sudo Read more…
I have the great pleasure of participating in a 3 day course Architecting on AWS and wanted to share a high level understanding as a way to both share the basics for anyone “on the fence” for jumping to AWS or not, and also selfishly to help me understand and remember more clearly as I go through the course.
Some interesting things I’ve learned today: