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December 5, 2020 Computer - General

Easy tips to fix a slow computer for non-techies

I have been asked a number of times by friends who are non-techies to “fix” their slow or buggy computers.

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How to get the Data URL of an image in JavaScript (dog and cat picture, arrow to data url excerpt)
September 27, 2019 Javascript

How to get the Data URL of an Image in JavaScript

Overview Lately I’ve been doing some work on an HTML file I have on my desktop, to play around with

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Automate starting and stopping databases in AWS
August 5, 2019 AWS / SQL

Automate starting and stopping databases in AWS

Using AWS, you can automate starting and stopping databases easily to save you money by not paying for a running database when you’re not using it.

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May 29, 2019 AWS / CSS

Adding Custom CSS Properties to AWS Cognito

By default certain CSS options are not available in Cognito. However, I can inject in the border radius property by terminating one of the values.

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Katalon Verifying Elements in Array by Property Value
April 15, 2019 Testing

Katalon Verifying Elements in Array by Property Value

Katalon’s WS.verifyElementPropertyValue function As I have previously mentioned, Katalon is a good tool for performing automated API testing. However, I

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March 27, 2019 AWS / C#

AWS X-Ray integration for .NET Core Typed HTTP Clients

Troubleshooting errors in a production environment sucks. Even when end users aren’t directly impacted, there’s still usually a huge amount

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March 6, 2019 DevOps / General Dev / Testing

Adventures in DevOps – Static Code Analysis with SonarQube

One of my most recent pushes is to leverage a tool called SonarQube. SonarQube is a static code analysis tool

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February 10, 2019 DevOps

Adventures in DevOps – Start of the journey

I’ve been a pretty huge fan of DevOps for a while now. I have a serious distaste for having a

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January 3, 2019 C#

Upgrading and publishing ILogger Data Extensions

I previously wrote about Using Extension Methods for Easy Improved Logging, where I was leveraging extension methods to take an

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December 12, 2018 General Dev

How to learn as a developer

In programming, the concept of “knowing it all” doesn’t exist. Programming is simply too massive of a field, and is

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