Month: September 2015

AWS Bootcamp: Architecting Highly Available Applications on AWS

IMG_0972 On Monday I visited the AWS Popup loft in San Francisco (again) and attended the Bootcamp on “Architecting Highly Available Applications on AWS”. Rather than try and re-summarize it, I’ll let the course description do the talking: “This beginner-level bootcamp teaches you how to apply the principles of elasticity, mitigating single points of failure…

AWS

Apache Cordova “Hello World” meets the real world

cordova_256 Everyone who’s ever learned to code (and probably a few more) knows about the “

Android

Simple and automatic Github deployment using PHP

jondavis-name If you’re like me, every project you work on worth anything gets put in GitHub. It’s safe and you get all the benefits of using Git. Of course those benefits include deployment hooks, if you’ve got the system setup for it. On small projects it may seem like it’s more hassle to setup deployment…

Cloud

Microsoft showed off at an Apple event… oh and some new iDevices

Screen Shot 2015-09-09 at 10.41.25 AM On the right you’ll see a screenshot I captured from today’s Apple event. One half of that image is an Apple staff member talking about the latest and greatest iPad Pro. On the other half of the image you’ll see… a Microsoft logo. At an Apple event? These two…

Apple

Outbound Email Security – Part 1 – SPF

512px-Envelope_font_awesome.svg Email, as a technology, has been around for longer than “The Web”. While one often hears about security for the web (in the form of encryption, tor, etc), rarely do people discuss email security. As with any technology there are many areas to “secure”, however this series will focus on outbound email security as…

Tech

Unblocking Private IPs from Public DNS under PFSense

2015-08-31 12_58_10-pfSense – Status_ Dashboard My home network has a domain name, so I don’t have to remember all the IP addresses of my various servers. However, I publish all the DNS information using AWS Route 53 since $0.50/month is much more palatable to me than running BIND. This works flawlessly until you get a…

Tech