Like 1/4 of the screen. Why? This one is also easy but not intuitive. There is a red line around the preview with a red circle. If your resolution is high (as it is on a Mac) you need to res… Read More

TL;DR: The new PC term for technology evangelist A developer advocate is a technologist who is both proficient with the use of particular platform produced by their employer and with technic… Read More

A best practice for modern application hosting is to run identical non-prod and prod environments. The prod environment should be locked down so that no manual changes can occur to it, reinf… Read More

It seems Hubot has changed things recently and I couldn’t get any of the existing online tutorials to work. Here’s what I got working: brew install node coffeescript redis brew s… Read More

In order to use MFA with the AWS CLI, you need to use the STS service to generate temporary credentials. At the beginning of each day (by default, temporary credentials are good for 12 hours… Read More

There are several ways to create an email forwarder using AWS. A few include: Standing up an EC2 instance and doing it the old fashioned way. Configuring your domain in Simple Email Service… Read More

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qhIH6EmD75MOBCEX3bq1S1LFYa0eOzhcU2-g2Gekvjw/edit?usp=sharing Notes: RAC is not supported on AWS. RDS Multi-AZ option gives you a comparable level of r… Read More

Method 1: Detach EBS Volumes and Attach Directly This method only works within the same AZ. It only works with EBS. These steps are for the Management Console, but you could use the CLI with… Read More

proxelle is a bluetooth to 3.5mm mini adapter useful for bringing older or limited-capability audio devices into the 21st century. To pair it with your phone: Start with proxelle off. Hold t… Read More

I’ve posted before about AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), AWS’ new free SSL certificates service. These certificates are not yet directly integrated with S3, but you can still use… Read More

See: Deploying WordPress with AWS Elastic Beanstalk Notes:#10: WordPress offers their secret-key service to generate the keys and salts but it uses special character… Read More

This is based on Microsoft SQL Server 2014 since 2016 doesn’t have a firm release date yet.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SEcwMoO7wuH_xFtpPyO-7LB7o_fGU2lxyWkm12Iidak/pub If yo… Read More

For those wishing to use native AWS services like CloudWatch for your Windows OS logging and/or monitoring, you have to explicitly define what you want to send to CloudWatch in “%progr… Read More

So officially this isn’t supported by Dell. But it’s possible. This assumes you want to do a full, clean install. Perhaps your original HDD (the only source of the Windows 7 reco… Read More

DevOps returns focus to the business value of software and systems. So it makes sense that step one of your DevOps journey should be modeling your organization’s software engineering v… Read More

Continuous delivery is all about moving code to production as quickly as possible and with as much automation as possible. This reduces risk. If you’re able to automate every… Read More

Prerequisites: AWS CLI A PHP Elastic Beanstalk app configured to use an ELB (even if it’s a single-server instance) With the launch of the AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), AWS… Read More

AWS Shell: sudo easy_install pip sudo pip install aws-shell --upgrade --ignore-installed six aws-shell AWS CLI: wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip unzip awscli-bund… Read More

They seem to change this every time a new model comes out. This works as of today: Launch the “Keychain Access” application located in /Applications/Utilities. In the top bar, ch… Read More