To anticipate and prevent
Amazon_Glacier During my last few visits to the AWS Popup loft, I really dug into my Amazon Web Services account, especially the billing. My bill had skyrocketed to over $5 a month! What had happened? How did I miss this huge spike in billing? Well, it turns out that a majority of that bill was…
It is ready! Date Line: 2015-07-06 Our last visit to the garden was a week ago, but it was finally time. In the intervening week, there had been a very warm 4th of July weekend. That heat was just what we need to kick it over the edge. All the waiting, all the patience, it…
AmazonWebservices_Logo.svg After last week’s Internet Of Things hack session, I became fascinated with all the fun IoT projects and technologies there are to play with. Everything you do, requires data to go into the cloud, so I figured I’d start there. In the hack series I learned how to push data into AWS Kinesis which…
Read More “Tutorial: AWS API Gateway to Lambda to DynamoDB” »
IMG_9611 Last Friday I spent the day at the AWS Popup Loft San Francisco. Just like when I was there two weeks ago, it was for an all day, hands on bootcamp. However, this most recent visit was much more exciting since we were learning about the Internet Of Things, the MediaTek LinkIt One and…
image-S4-i-rugged For about a year now I’ve had a set of the Klipsch Image S4i Rugged earbuds and it is high time they got a quick review. I’ve had some of the other Klipsch earbuds and while they’ve worked well, they’ve all eventually failed on me. Normally this would be upsetting, but as I wear…
[vSphere](http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/artists/341025702) I’ve been a long time user of VMWare ESXi for my baremetal hypervisor needs. In order for it to function at its best, the recommendation has always been to install the VMWare Tools. On Windows this is an exe and a piece of cake. However on Linux it has always been a gamble.