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WhiteBoard Coder: AWS Servers

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I have been using AWS servers since 2010 for clients. I think they are a great, if not the greatest, cloud solutions on the market right now. 1 year subscription. expires 01/31/2015). I keep the T1.micro server around to run one simple client web site (very non-important) and to run an offsite git remote repository. I am thinking about mounting an s3 folder as my remote git/rsync drive for more robust offsite backups. Great service I highly recommend it. I spend approximately $7.50 a month for a T1&#...

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WhiteBoard Coder: Install and setup postgres 9.3 DB on Ubuntu 14.04

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Install and setup postgres 9.3 DB on Ubuntu 14.04. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Installing and setting up a Postgres 9.3 Database on Ubuntu 14.04. After it's the DB server is set up, create a DB with a read only and a read write user. I want to make sure I will install 9.3 if I use apt-get. To check that run the following command. OK, now install it. Sudo apt-get install postgresql. Switch to the Postgres user (the only user who can login at this point). Login to the database. Psql -d postgres -U postgres.

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WhiteBoard Coder: Pair Programming

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Learn the art of pair programming. Here is a short history of my feelings towards Pair Programming. (Keep in mind I love to work with people I don't prefer to work in a cave alone). Two guys and one shovel between them to do the work? Of course two guys with one shovel will get more done than one guy with one shovel in 8 Hours, but they will not get as much work done as Two guys who each have their own shovel. It has some value. It is absolutely worth doing a portion of the time . Newer programmers becom...

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WhiteBoard Coder: Install ffmpeg on Ubuntu 14.04

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Install ffmpeg on Ubuntu 14.04. Saturday, July 4, 2015. Ffmpeg is a great command line tool for converting videos and audio files from one format to another. https:/ www.ffmpeg.org/about.html. In this tutorial I will be going over how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04. Why should there even be a tutorial on how to install this? Shouldn't it be just something like "sudo apt-get install ffmpeg"? I am sure someone can answer this better than I, but here is my naive take on it…. 2] Go there if you want complete ...

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WhiteBoard Coder: Home Machines

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ”. Here are a list of my home machines. Macbook Pro 13" mid 2010. At one point this was a dev machine when I worked at green.com ever since then its the families and is mostly used for web surfig and holding our picture Library. 4 GiB of memory. OSX 10.9.4. I used this at Solidware as my dev machine, carting it and a 23" apple monitor back and forth every day. To be honest it just sits on a self now. 4 GiB of memory.

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WhiteBoard Coder: Sensu Epic

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My goal is to just really figure out how to use Sensu. Some of the TODOs on my list are. Send message securely between Sensu Master and Clients. Set up a Sensu HA system (more than one master). Write a few checks. Write a few handlers. The first post of this epic shows simply how to set up Sensu and get a simple check working. Setting up a Sensu Client on a Separate Server. Setting up a Second Sensu Client on a Separate Server. Setting up a Sensu Client to send messages via SSL. In the first case if we p...

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WhiteBoard Coder: "Mob" Programming

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Wednesday, August 12, 2015. I am going through a great book right now. It's a collection of write ups on Extreme Programming from 2002. A lot of them are very practical and have some great ideas on how to do XP or to introduce it to a team. One I thought a valuable read was talking about "Mob" Programming. The article is only 5 pages… go ahead and read it J. Mob" programming is pretty much what it sounds like… You get your Dev team in a room and you… the mob… refactor some code…. Teaching the Team XP.

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WhiteBoard Coder: Twilio and Pagerduty

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Set up a phone number, via twillio, that when called will set off a pagerduty event. Pagerduty, as far as I can tell, does not offer a single call in number. I need a single emergency phone number that I can hand out to key people. In the event of an emergency they only have one number to call to get a hold of the on-call engineer. I figured out how to do it! The first post of this epic shows simply how to set up pager duty (and use your free 30 day trial). Another person set up our pagerduty and twilio ...

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WhiteBoard Coder: Dev Machines

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Just as in financial investing, you must invest in your knowledge portfolio regularly. ”. 8213; Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master. 12/17/2010 had to repurchase due to intel cpu issue 4/27/2011). My main @home workhorse, but its getting long in the tooth, it does not have an HD screen, HD camera, etc. 8 GiB of memory. I7-2630QM @ 2.00 GHz. Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. 256 GiB SSD drive crucial CT256M4SSD2CCA. 1 TiB 5400 Hard drive. Skullcandy Hesh 2 Headphones. Cable Matte...