I love AWS and I am always looking for ways to move my projects to it. Plus I think AWS is a good thing to learn. I like the challenge of deciding what services to use for my various projects. Be careful though in AWS you can easily set things up things that are expensive.… Read More »
Background story So I had to ask myself why would I want to use serverless function? I already know how to provision a REST endpoint on EC2. Unfortunately EC2 does not come with a HTTPS endpoint. Instead you have add other services like an Elastic Load Balancer or Cloud Front to set it up. With… Read More »
When doing an intensive program like this it is pretty easy to get burned out. To combat that I would post pictures every day of something I thought was beautiful or fun. It helped ground me. I would tag my pictures with “Lots to love…”. Some of my friends said STOP! others copied me and… Read More »
In my previous job we practiced agile by having sprint meetings every day. However the business was run more with a waterfall approach. We called it Agile but it didn’t use any of the typical tools you find in agile training. There were no user stories, burndown charts, agile board or component testing done. You… Read More »
Note: You can find Weather Many in the app store for only 99 cents! It was fun to make my heatercalc.com website… which got me thinking… bad things happen when I get to thinking… What if I make a mobile app? and then I thought of an idea for one… oh no this is bad.… Read More »
So I am well into the html, css, and javascript parts of my studies. I recently learned bootstrap. Wow bootstrap is neat now I can do some cool things. I think I know of a good project. Jim’s conscience says “Jim keep studying” my ego says “no studying is boring let’s make my first app!”… Read More »
Heater-Calc For my first web app I choose to make a heat transfer calculator. I had already created something similar years ago for my mechanical engineering work. It is online now at heatercalc.com. This web app calculates heater transfer for conduction, convection, radiation, process load and heat up. These calculation can be complex with many… Read More »
My last day at being a project manager in biotech was yesterday. Now I have a new job learning full stack engineering and running my business JimmySoft LLC. This is a leap of faith. Let me explain why I am doing this. I have always had an interest in computer programming. It started early in… Read More »
Now that I am curious… let’s figure out what full stack is. “A full stack web developer is a person who can develop both client and server software.” -Wikipedia OK, my WordPress site runs on the server and renders pages to my chrome browser. Does that mean it is a full stack application? Wait, what exactly is the nuance… Read More »
So I been happily running my side hustle, EmbroideryWare, for almost three years. June 2109 will be its third year birthday. Sales in 2018 were good. Also I have been successful at automating my site by writing some PHP code to send out license codes and promotional materials. Now the site runs on its own.… Read More »