Posts listed chronologically

2022

Design Systems

Specifications for look and feel by various tech companies

Cloud services comparisons

Which cloud is best? Azure vs. AWS vs. Google

Kubernetes (K8s)

Get certified in how to orchestrate containers, especially in clouds, including OpenShift

Prometheus

Collect metrics (for visualization by Grafana), analyze using PromQL coding, and identify alerts, free from CNCF, especially for Kubernetes

Dockerize apps

Define how little bits work together

Docker setup

Get bits working in lightweight containers

HashiCorp Consul

Enterprise-grade secure Zero-Trust routing to replace East-West load-balancing using service names rather than static IP addresses. Enhance Service Mesh with...

Regex (Regular Expressions)

Don't avoid them. Don't fear them. Make them your friend. Here and now.

ROS (Robotic Operating System)

Learn the operating system for controlling simple robots

IoT Raspberry Install

How to setup a Raspberry Pi on macOS with Raspbian, Python, Node, Ansible, Kubernetes

Node API Starter

Add routes to basic features included

Hello-Vault

How to code your app to use HashiCorp Vault to get rid of static database passwords by generating credentials in Secret_ID temporarily in cubbyholes, wrapped...

AWS Service Catalog

Select your way to a set of services to assemble your app, with curated (known-safe) settings (in Terraform too)

Rustlang (Rust language)

Efficient, secure, performant concurrent systems programming that compiles to machine running byte-code

Ports Open (Networking)

What ports are open for hacking on my Mac and Linux machine?

MacOS within AWS

Temporary MacOS instances from AWS EC2 and MacStadium

GitOps

ArgoCD (for Kuberetes)

AWS Networking

Setting AWS network VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), Security Groups, WAF, BGP, etc.

Making videos

Tediously using Camtasia, Audacity, OBS, and automating animated PowerPoint on a Mac

HashiCorp Boundary

Granular control of least-privilege just-in-time access to remotely access using SSH & RDP, to follow Zero-Trust principles

apple-carplay

Apple's integration for practically every car except Tesla

tls

TLS v1.3 (Transport Layer Security), the latest successor to SSL, secures network communications with https protocol and mTLS (mutual TLS) using x.509 format...

OCM (Organizational Change Management)

This may be the most important skill for Digital Transformation -- or to implement any change

Cloud Services

Here is a dictionary of the 200+ AWS.

Van build (designs for living large in a high-top van/RV)

Getting ready for when cars drive themselves, seats in sedans will be replaced by convertible beds and tables in vans

Security Certifications

There are several (overlapping) ones. Collect them all!

Food (online, delivered)

How I feed via deliveries by UPS, FedEx, and USPS, instead of dining in different restaurants during the pandemic.

Helm Charts for Kubernetes

Package manager for Kubernetes

HashiCorp Vault

How to keep secrets secret (in a central place), but still shared and refreshed.

Terraform

Immutable declarative versioned Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Policy as Code provisioning into AWS, Azure, GCP, and other clouds using Terragoat, Bridgecr...

Text Editors (on the Mac)

nano, pico, vim, subl, code, atom, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Cloud9, etc.

K6

Code JavaScript to performance test locally and using their k6.io SaaS cloud

Bash (script) coding

Walk though the tricks (Bashisms) used in a script to install, configure, and run many programs on macOS and Linux

OPA - Rego

Open Policy Agent runs queries in the Rego language

Apple Macbook Hardware

It's stylish because it's expensive

Grafana (visualization)

Open-source server to display metrics for DevSecOps and others

PowerShell Install Coding

Make PowerShell your superpower on Windows and Macs, for fun and profit

GoLang (Go Language) ecosystem

This is what the cool kids are using to create fast and portable apps

Google Apps Scripting

Because Microsoft Word and Excel files can go in and out of Google Docs and Sheets (mostly) well, you can now extract lines from Google Docs into Google Shee...

Well Architected Cloud

What is your team's maturity at adopting best practices? Here is the comprehensive industry-standard framework from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google

Acronyms (and contractions)

Here are all acronyms together in one place because it's often difficult to know whether an acronym is from Security, Networking, Finance, etc.

Python Samples

My collection of useful ways to use Python securely in a production setting

Git Signing

Sign git commits and tags (for non-repudiation) in GitHub using GPG, Vault, Yubikey, Keybase

Service Mesh (Envoy, Istio, Linkerd)

The sidecar proxy enables business logic to hand off to a control pane to take care of cross-cutting operational concerns

Mac OSX Terminal (command-line tips and tricks)

Make things happen quickly without touching the mouse

AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

Write dynamic Python, Java, .NET, NodeJs, or TypeScript code which are synth'd into Cloud Formation or Terraform static yaml

Zero Trust

Evolve your traditional systems to new ways before your ransomware adversaries do.

Apple Mac OSX Keyboard Shortcuts

Stay focused and do things faster with Keyboard Shortcuts, HotKeys, and StreamDeck buttons

CAIQ (Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire) for Consul users' auditors.

Only questions with answers generated from file CAIQ4.0.1.consul.csv by caiq-yaml-gen.py

Monitoring infrastructure

Toward Observability

CAIQ (Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire)

A single set of questions about security controls that all cloud vendors use to present a description of their controls to SOC2, ISO 27000, FedRamp auditors

Jekyll (JAM) site development

Getting started with Jekyll

PowerBI

Make better decisions using data. Pass Microsoft's PL-100 Query Editor, DAX, and Models

Front-end (UI creation tools)

Here are the various tools developers have to create user-centric front-end UIs (User Interfaces)

prodsys - production systems

Here we maintain assets SREs (System Reliability Engineers) use to fearlessesly and adroitly face production.

HashiCups (demo app and infrastructure code)

My customizations and notes about using the HashiCups sample app and infrastructure code created by HashiCorp to do their demos and training

Museums Roadtrip USA

Visual, architectural, and culinary art in every state and major city, mapped by Machine Learning

Jira

How to use Jira for good, not to create frustration

Generate (Evangelist Job Description) from YAML

Example of automated yaml generation (using Jekyll within GitHub) referencing values defined in markup variables at the top of the YAML file

Get to Production (with less stress)

Specific strategies and procedures to address concerns, on schedules, with metrics,

SOC2 (CPA attestation report on each service organization's information security controls)

So salespeople can close faster with prospective customers by providing a SOC 2 Type II report

Changing Enterprises (and individuals in them)

How to move ahead and seize opportunities by making elephants dance, pigs fly, etc.

Mac setup (automation using a bootstrap script and Ansible)

So I don't fear losing my macOS laptop

Browsers (and their Extensions)

Make websites look and do what you want!

Markdown text for GitHub from HTML

Tricks to force Markdown to show things the way you want.

Xcode install (on MacOS)

Xcode IDE contains Command-Line utilities, which can also be installed separately. But separate Command-Line installer cause errors for use by Homebrew, Pyth...

HashiCorp Waypoint

Build, deploy, and release across platforms

Python Tutorials

Who will teach you to code in python

Zsh (Z shell on MacOS)

Apple's heavy hand is forcing adoption of POSIX and even switch to Python, to get away from Bashisms

DNS (Domain Name System)

Translate domain names to IP addresses

Backup options

What will happen when you lose that data?

Beta Activities

7+ strategies to make betas more useful

Python Install (Conda Anaconda Miniconda Pip) on MacOS

Confusion and errors from too many alternatives and options

Distinguished Engineers (and Fellows)

Distinguished Engineers provide the voice of technical developers and operations among executive managers

Scaled Agile

You're SAFe with Agile!

RBAC vs ABAC vs PBAC (Access Control)

Role, Attribute, and Policy Based Access Control simplify IAM at scale using the most fine-trained way access in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and other systems

AWS Automatic remediations (of Vulnerabilities in AWS)

Dynamically audit AWS resource configrations using using OPA Rego, Lambda alerts using SNS through EventBridge, then automatically remediate (via SSM)

AWS Amplify

Create and host web & mobile apps in a low-code way within AWS

AWS Security

Securing secrets in Bash shell scripts while learning to pass the AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C01) exam

Elixir-lang

Elixir leverages the Erlang BEAM VM for running low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems in web development, embedded software, data ingestion, a...

Cyber Security

Enterprise data risks and vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them with controls

Dotfiles (MacOS custom configuration specifications)

Instead of clicking around, edit all configurations in a single file of system commands.

2021

Graph databases

It's more relational than relational databases

Power Automate

Microsoft's RPA (Robotic Process Automation) and DPA (Digital Process Automation) product to create and run low-code flows accessing various connectors, augm...

Python Coding

The rules shown in samples using Keywords, arguments, Exception Handling, OS commands, Strings, Lists, Sets, Tuples, Files, Timers

Python

An index to my tutorials about using Python for programming

Azure DevOps

Pass Microsoft's comprehensive AZ-400 on DevOps for automated CI/CD pipelines in the Azure cloud as well as GitHub Actions

Windows client config (Server 2012+)

How I setup my Windows UI look and feel

AWS Config (Compliance-as-Code)

Dynamically audit AWS resource configrations using using OPA Rego, Lambda alerts using SNS through EventBridge, then automatically remediate (via SSM)

Load Balancers

Distribute load to scale and upgrade servers with no down time. Also route transactions across clouds using ZeroLB

AWS Certifications

Tips and tricks to get certified: links to tutorials, videos, practice exams.

pytest-bdd

Behavior-driven Development (BDD) by automating Gherkin test specs using Pytest for test coverage analysis, data-driven tests, and localization verification

Internet Computer

A distributed ecosystem for hosting containers (apps) without AWS, Google, Facebook.

AWS DevOps (CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy)

Get certified in Developer Operations on AWS

Python Certs

The topics for learning the Python language thoroughly, for professional status

Apple Mac versions (plus Installers and Wallpapers)

From Mac OSX to MacOS

Jupyter

"Notebooks" display HTML markup as comments between executable Python code (for Machine Learning and Data Science), for Style Transfer of images, etc.

Pyenv and Pipenv (on MacOS)

The tools to dynamically install and use different versions of Python, packages, all within Virtualenv

Classification

Statistics to evaluate classification: Confusion Matrix, Specificity, ROC, and AUC, etc.

Azure Machine Learning

Notes for before and after getting AI-900, AI-102, and DP-100 certified, as we automate ML workflows in the Azure PaaS cloud

AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)

Create users in group, then add permissions to secure your accounts

eXplinable AI

Ask your Machine Learning/AI why it made the decisions it did, to satisfy GDPR and other legislation

Docker Registry

Where Docker images are stored for Kubernetes to run

DAST for OWASP using SonarQube, ZAP on the Broken Web App, and other tools

Practice penetration testing identifying security vulnerabilities in sample BWA app

DApps (Distributed Applications) for DAOs (Distributed Autonomous Organizations)

How to use and write code running blockchains (Etherium ECS cluster based on AWS Blockchain Templates)

TFE (Terraform Enterprise)

Use Terraform's sentinel command on Workspaces from a module registry, to automatically identify RBAC-based violations

JMeter install (on a Mac)

to emulate HTTP requests testing load/capacity

AWS Onboarding

Tips and tricks to get account. Lock down root accounts. Install and use the AWS CLI, securely

IoT services on Microsoft Azure

Getting value from IoT means getting wisdom from analytics and notifications

Flood the Internet (control JavaScript)

Use Dave Hoeffner's web app (the-internet) which challenge Selenium coders to compare scripts for performance/capacity testing (JMeter, Flood Element, etc.)

Water Conservation

Ways to minimize use of water

Azure Data (within Microsoft's cloud)

Know SQL to pass DP-900, DP-100, DP-300

Chaos Engineering

Use Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, and monitoring tools (such as Datadog) to measure and improve MTTD and MTTR

Azure Cloud Onramp

Azure URLs, Subscriptions, Support plans, Tenants, Directories, ARM portal Keyboard Shortcuts, CLI Bash & PowerShell scripting

CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery)

The path of maturity in organizations going faster via DevSecOps

lightstep (with OpenTelemetry)

How to get proactive health metrics for managing cloud-native applications quicker, with less toil

Microsoft AI (Azure Cognitive Services)

Notes for before and after getting AI-900, AI-100, AI-102 certified, as we automate AI workflows in the Azure PaaS cloud

Azure networking

vNets, Peering, NSG, CDN, Scaling with Load Balancers, Gateways, Firewall, Front Door, Traffic Manager, DDoS

RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) into Windows machines

Connect to Windows machine in AWS or any cloud from within MacOS, Linux

Azure (Serverless) Functions

Effortless instant (theoretically) infinite capacity to take several different actions

API Management by Microsoft Azure

SaaS-only, proprietary. Get it for .NET

Git basics (client-based workflow)

Here is a quick way to learn Git version control for contributing to open source

Windows on Apple MacOS laptops

RDP to EC2, Amazon WorkSpaces, Vagrant, BootCamp, VMWare Fusion, Docker

Building a team remotely?

8 questions to ask

Asana (freemium open-source and SaaS product)

Get stuff done, as a team or individually, by integrating tasks, calendar, projects (as boards)

Azure Storage (in Microsoft's Azure cloud)

Files, Disks, Blobs, Tables, Queues, SQL, CosmoDB, Synapse, LRS, ZRS, GRS, RA-GRS

Azure Compute (within Microsoft's cloud)

VMs, Scale Sets, App Services, Websites, Function Apps, Logic Apps, Docker Containers, AKS

KQL (Kusto Query Language)

Adds filters missing in GraphQL. Adds graphs missings in SQL. The one language to rule them all.

What is the big deal about Enterprise software?

How to meet enterprise needs with multi-dimensional offerings with no limits of scale and geography

Okta

Universal Directory IAM via OIDC using JWT over OAuth2 for API and SWA or SAML SSO Authentication with MFA for identity federation using SCIM in cloud or on-...

Build load-balanced servers in AWS EC2 using CloudFormation

Automate High Availability in the cloud

Jenkins Setup

Make your robot butler

Azure Monitoring

How to get logs and metrics ingested and displayed with actionable alerts

Docusaurus (v2)

Build book-like internationalized, indexed, searcheable websites using React made easy

GitHub GraphQL (API)

GitHub's REST API was perfect. Now THIS is more perfect.

PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration)

Let PowerShell make it right and keep it right

MacOS Bootup

To diagnose and troubleshoot getting started (vs. Linux)

Azure Cloud PowerShell Scripting

Do anything you want!

SIEM

Security Information and Event Management

Azure (Microsoft's cloud) certifications

Collect them all! Microsoft provides free hands-on (gamified) tutorials and free time

Salesforce DX (Developer eXperience) deep dive

Begin to use Git and GitHub (DevHub) for software-driven (modular) continuous development

GitHub

How we configure each GitHub repo to maximize teamwork

Pen-testing

My learnings from FreeCodeCamp's Information Security certification and other resources on penetration testing

GitHub Data Security

How to keep secrets out of GitHub

AWS Cognito (federation)

Federate authentication of authentication through API Gateway via Python Lambda

Encrypt-all (on AWS)

How to store and send files securely using AWS KMS (Key Management Service)

Git Guardian

Full-featured free secret scanning for open source and small teams on GitHub and GitLab

2020

GCP (Google Compute Platform/Google Certified Professional)

The cloud that runs on fast Google Fiber and Big AI, from the folks who gave you Kubernetes

Git-LFS (Large File System) and DVC

Git clean and smudge binary files to and from a separate LFS Store, transparently

ServiceNow

ITSM automated in the cloud for Incident Management and other ITSM functionality

Technical (and Business) press mentions

Blogs and publications covering technology

InnerSource

Caring about sharing within commerical enterprises using GitHub

CAD (Computer Assisted Design)

To create stuff using 3D printers

Fonts on macOS

You are what font you use

Bash scripts (coding)

This sample Bash script contains multiple features: install, configure, and run (then remove) a web app within Docker on macOS and Linux, with one copy/paste

Printing

How to get your stuff on paper from macOS and Linux

WebGoat

Run the deliberately insecure Java app within Docker with a Contrast Security agent reporting issues and trends over time.

TensorFlow

TensorFlow Certification

AI Ecosystems

Brand names for how corporate overlords are making humans into robots

Histograms (and Frequency Diagrams in Excel)

Visualize your data by splitting them into several bins

GitHub Actions (for free CI/CD)

Run pipelines from within GitHub, for free (instead of Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)

Google Cloud Build

Build for Kubernetes within GCP

Make (from) Makefile

How the venerable utility is used in Jenkins and GoCD to invoke shell commands around building Docker images for Kubernetes

Developer Teamwork

Tips for encouraging team Code Reviews, Pair Programming, and other techniques for better quality and productivity

OpenCV Color Python

Use the OpenCV to recognize a portion of your screen and have Selenuium Python click on a portion of it

2019

Streamlit

Create data visualizations declaratively for ML and Data Science on a Mac, powered by Python

Web Scraping

How to use the Scrapy Python crawler framework to fetch HTML which Beautiful Soup parsers, on a Mac for Machine Learning visualizations

ImageMagic

Manage photos and Python Scikit Learn

Tesseract (OCR)

Recognizes text and special characters in image files (after Imagemagic), for 60+ languages (using LTSM machine-learning). Used by Selenium

Maven on MacOS (OSX)

for Java, Jenkins, etc.

OpenCV SikuliX robot

Use the OpenCV to recognize a portion of your screen and have Selenuium Python click on a portion of it

Selenium Setup

How to emulate real users touching your web apps using Python controlling Selenium and Beautiful Soup for reading HTML

Katalon (functional testing studio)

Automates testing on top of Selenium, Cucumber

Airflow (by Apache)

Workflow as Code (WaC)

OPA = Open Policy Agent (Rego policy language)

Web service to make decisions about Kubernetes Admission Control and PaC (Policy as Code)

Virtualbox

Although it doesn't have the path to production like Docker and Kubernetes, it's free (unlike VMware Fusion)

Kedro (Python template for production-quality ML data pipelines)

My Bash script explained by an animated flowchart about installing (from Homebrew) Conda (Anaconda3) and utils to run tests and tasks invoking kedro (from Py...

Artifactory (with X-Ray security scan)

Privately store and retrieve binary artifacts vetted of vulnerabilities, instead of public DockerHub, PiPI, etc.

GoCD (Continuous Deployment and Delivery)

Integrated DevSecOps from Thoughtworks

Flood (vs. Selenium automation) coding

Coding Flood Element TypeScript which (like Selenium) emulates manual actions in Google Chrome browsers

Microtrader (sample microservices CI/CD to production Docker within AWS)

How to build, test, and integrate async http/2 app (written in Java with Vert.X) using Shell scripts, Boto3 Python, Ansible, Packer, IAM, KMS, CloudFormation...

Cloud Formation

to animate Templates in StackSets of Stacks in AWS

Flood local setup

Install Flood Element CLI to run TypeScript which (like Selenium) emulates manual actions in Google Chrome browsers

AWS X-Ray

Tracing within the AWS Cloud

Tricentis Tosca

Model-based functional testing through the lifecycle

SAP Fiori

performance engineering SAP UI5 Fiori sample apps using Tricentis Flood.io Elements

DevOps job tasks (the work of DevOps)

Get DevOps done using job tasks and projects based on job tasks defined by professional certification

Git Patch (Bash script)

Create patch messages to apply into other repos, like old-school pros

Git messages (conventions and styling with emojis)

so you can separate one commit from another, succinctly

CICD pipeline (Docker of Python Console program being tested within TravisCI)

Featuring a Bash shell script that does everything, explained

AWS CLI

Tips and tricks to install and use the MacOS Terminal for Programmatic access to AWS.

WordPress

A vibrant ecosystem for quickly building and maintaining dynamic feature-rich websites

AWS Lightsail (and other VPS)

Create and use EC2 instances at fixed prices per month, vs. other Virtual Private Servers

JMeter in the cloud for distributed performance testing

Impose load remotely from Docker instances in the AWS cloud

Protractor (automated functional testing)

Using Jasmine to verify AngularJs web app UI based on Selenium (behavior) driven by Gherkin specs run by Cucumber

Site Reliability and Load Engineering in Cloud Economics

How to achieve work productivity, high availability, scalability, resiliency, low latency, at lowest cost?

Splunk

Logging indexing and visualization

TruWeb (from MicroFocus)

Performance Testing and Engineering on macOS

2018

GatsbyJs (JAM Stack web app generator)

Create and publish fast, secure, feature-rich, mobile-friendly, scalable, low-cost cloud-native websites that rank high in searches

Pulumi

Deploy and control AWS, Azure, GCP, K8S, Serverless by coding JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Python, etc.

SMACK Mesos stack (based on Mesosphere/Marathon DC/OS)

SMACK = Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka, etc.

Salesforce myTrailhead

Create custom content on Salesforce's Trailhead website

How to contribute to a Non-profit using Salesforce

An example of a document for volunteers of technical talent

Salesforce Alexa for Business skills for custom voice UI

Voice commands via shared Echo devices in common rooms

Git configuration

How to setup Git clients like a pro

Salesforce exhibitors (partners)

Answers to the same questions

Salesforce Selenium (Protractor Gerkhin)

Automate not just testing but also explanations about user state

Salesforce Einstein

Artificial Intelligence built into the Saleforce you already have

Salesforce Data (Importing and exporting)

How to get data in and out of Salesforce

Salesforce NPSP performance

How Gatling is used to measure the speed and capacity of microservices for Salesforce add-on NPSP (Non-Profit Success Pack)

Salesforce Non-profit (NPSP)

How the Salesforce Benefit corp benefits non-profits, technically

Salesforce Heroku

Start using Heroku with a Postgres database and integrate it with Salesforce

Salesforce Apps

Apps and Components to add from AppExchange

Salesforce Jobs

Where to look, favored certifications, sample job descriptions, tips

Salesforce Project Plans

Strategies for getting going quickly yet sanely

Salesforce projects, superbadges, and sample apps

Build a portfolio of apps you built yourself

Salesforce certifications (training and exams)

To get recognized for your knowledge, skills, and persistance

Salesforce offerings

Competitors, Languages, Clouds, Industries, Domains, GitHubs, editions, pricing, features, versions

Salesforce onboarding

Get up and running on Trailhead and Developer tools

Salesforce rock stars

Individuals and teams who have published or influenced

Salesforce Users

Roles, Personas

Salesforce Glossary of Acronyms

Know the lingo

Salesforce Events (Meetups, Tours, Conferences)

Visit them all to shake hands and hug everyone!

Salesforce Ohana

Offices, Financials, Social media, Communities, Events, Dreamforce, Dreamoji, Store

Serverless computing

Invisible ubiquitious server clouds across the land

Apigee API Management

Design, Installation, configuration, Usage

Deeplens deep-learning enabled wireless video camera

It comes with a little computer and a big AWS AI cloud

Maximum limits (in macOS file descriptors)

Set this higher to prevent errors during high load

Chatbots

Computers interacting with people by voices, without keyboards

Anomaly Detection

Here's a way to achieve WTF (What the Face) - the unexpected

Machine Learning Algorithms

Tools for data science

Azure Machine Learning certification

Exams 70-773 and 70-774 toward an MCSA

MacOS (Command-Line) Utilities

kill, grep, sed, regex, cron, etc. vs. Linux commands

Manage MacOS Disk Space

Tools and techniques to minimize disk space usage

Home Assistant

Control a wide range of IoT devices using Python on Raspberry Pi, iOS, and Android

Hacker vs Sustainer (Culture)

How to succeed in production by resolving the singular source of conflict teams must resolve for DevOps

Neo4j graph database introduction

Don't use this if you're fond of SQL joins and static schemas

2017

Environment Variables

How to pass them through Jenkins and Kubernetes

Packer from HashiCorp within macOS

Automate creation of Windows server as VMware Fusion images used to make Vagrant boxes for the HashiCorp Atlas repository

JHipster app and DevOps generator

Generates all the hippest stacks from just an Entity Model (and default configurations)

Kafka

How to make streaming scream

Elastic Beats

Minions to collect data from each server

Elastic Stack Installation

Here are several ways to get it up and running quickly

Elastic Logstash

Assemble and filter data from Elastic Beats

Elastic Kibana setup

Show all the numbers in a dashboard

Elastic Query

How to get wisdom from data

Elastic Scaling

This can, and does, get big

ElasticSearch Ecosystem

People to see and places (links) to go about the Elastic (ELK) stack

Selenium-cs (C# or C Sharp, using Visual Studio)

Enable C# Microsoft developers to use Selenium test infrastructures on Alt-macOS

LoadRunner 12.55 Installation

From the new Micro Focus in AWS cloud and locally

Analysis for trends and anomalies

Analyze and visualize across multiple dimensions, automatically

Hands-on DevSecOps Course (for PerfTest Shift-Left)

Achieve performance engineering and testing at the end of every sprint

jq (JSON Query utility for Bash)

Extract data from APIs in Bash scripts

Cloud-Foundry

From Pivotal, the Java Spring Boot web services people.

Foundation website generation on MacOS

Install a complete development environment for generating a website using the flexible UI Foundation Framework top UI pros use

GitLab CI (and CD and CD too if you dare)

One integrated pipepline, for free

Git shortcuts (in a CLI Terminal)

A few swipes of your hand and it's done for you

Java Spring REST API Sample

Spring for some Java web service client

JVM Profilers

Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, and threading issues

Groovy (Language) introduction

A groovy way to use the Java Virtual Machine

Bash shell running within Windows using Microsoft's WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

It's less like Power Rangers clicking rings, more like living among expats in a foreign country

IoT Hub service on Microsoft Azure

Get value from IoT means getting wisdom from analytics and notifications

Git imerge (interactive merge)

This is the way to merge. It needs to be setup, but you'll love it.

Progressive Webapps (PWA)

Responsive desktop and mobile hybrid apps that manage data offline too

Cucumber testing

Gherkin user specs drive Selenium tests for behavior-driven development (BDD) within Agile

IntelliJ IDE

This gives you more, free for Java users (who have Eclipse)

Eclipse IDE (STS and for Selenium)

Open source and free since the 90's.

Swagger (REST API specification)

Design your API for code generation

Pact for Integration Testing of REST APIs

Simplify integration testing by verifying equivalance of twins vs. real services

Git HEAD (commit-ish references)

Here is an (evolving) explanation of illustrating how Git refers to commits and branches

Git Rebase

Make it appear that you only made one edit before pushing to the team repo

Swagger-codegen

Install a generator of mock servers and client programs of the PetStore sample app

Package Managers

Download and install dependencies and keep them updated

Git Custom Commands

Less typing means less mistakes, and more time on social media

Why Git?

Git stores changes to use GitHub for backup and change management

Git Whoops

Don't panic. Here's how to un-do mistakes in Git

.NET profiling

Here's how to use Redgate ANTS to make C# really sing on NerdDinner

Perftest (Performance Testing and Engineering)

A high-level explanation of Why do it? And how

Agile Performance Testing and Engineering

Why do it? And how to do it in an Agile way

Software Evaluation Criteria

Example of a comparison of competing tools

Time Series

See all 4+ dimensions (time) in visualizations

InfluxDB time-series SQL-like database

Open-source programmed in Go to be fast and scalable

Ambiance (White Noise)

See if listening to this helps you concentrate or relax

DevOps Dashboards with Hygieia

All the stats that fits on a dashboard

Image processing

Processing of image files using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Feature flags

Evaluate the options for Python for real-time feature configuration and impact control

Python API flask

Step-by-step using the Flask REST API library using SQLite3 locally in venv on a Mac

Encrypt all the things

How to store and send files securely using XMPP over the hostile internet

Machine Learning

It can do it for you ... before it does you in

Data Sources

Jump in and drown in all the data

Python Robot testing

A robot python mimics what human testers do manually (to entertain real developers)

Self-driving cars

What can possibly go wrong with robots smarter than humans?

Testing AI

What can possibly go wrong with robots smarter than humans?

Parsing logs

Making sense of semi-structured data

Excel Load automation

Load data into Excel automatically using a script

JPetstore

Sample Java Spring app for your abuse and amusement

Amazon Lex (AI Chatbots)

Make a robot talk to you

Tweet yourself

The twitterverse, 140 characters at a time

2016

Code Generation

It does your job better and faster than you can imagine

Vue.js

This is the last framework you'll ever need to switch to, just like ReactJs. And Angular.

Spring Petclinic

Sample Java Spring app for your abuse and amusement

Git Hooks (on local Git clients and Git servers)

One git commit and you're hooked

PowerShell Modules

Share scripting functions with others

Git and GitHub Videos and Tutorials

Binge watch all the vidoes on distributed source version control

Git files (in repository)

What are those files in repositories on GitHub

IoT Text to Speech (TTS)

Make your Pi say things it doesn't mean

IoT Clouds

The value of IoT is the wisdom from analytics and notifications

IoT Solutions (for you)

Ways to automate your life. We can do this with IoT

Selenium NeoLoad

Load test sooner by updating NeoLoad scripts from Selenium

Selenium Flex

Make it work before it becomes totally obsolete

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

It does your job better and faster than you can imagine

News feeds

Ways to get out of the Facebook echo chamber

IoT Use cases

Ways to enjoy your life more through automation

Shift-Left Load Testing

How to achieve earlier feedback

Operate a Mac without hands

Pain from Carpel Tunnel will make you want AI speech and gesture recognition

GraphQL API

Now THIS is the industry standard. REST API is so last season.

PowerShell GitHub API Programming

GitHub reaching to web servies on the web gives scripts data power

GitHub GraphQL PowerShell Module

How I got in front of the GraphQL and PowerShell parade.

PowerShell REST API Programming

Reaching to web servies on the web gives scripts data power

Finding fault in JVM-based Apps

How to find and fix JVM reliability running Java

1Password (on Mac OSX, iPhone, etc.) and Twillio's Authy 2FA

We need this even though it's querky

Raspberry Pi IoT Hardware

A board by any other name is just as sweet

IoT Camera

How to setup a camera on the Raspberry Pi 3B and other boards

Task runners

Gulp, Grunt, and other noises as it works automatically

Find (files and text in files)

Find, grep, sed stuff on your hard drives using regular expressions

Node API Starter

Add routes to basic features included

Android Development install on Mac

Install Android Studio and other steps to Android Things

React Native

Yes, it's getting ripe for production

Electron

Write and test native desktop apps in JavaScript within Node.JS

System Monitoring

He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake ...

Xamarin

Microsoft made it free, as in if you have a license for Visual Studio

Puppet

Puppet

IoT Ecosystem

Whose's making money on IoT?

IoT reminders prevent dead mobile battery

The annoying mobile-IoT-cloud mash-up we actually need

SAP HANA Express on Mac

The biggest server, on your laptop

Code Signing on Windows

I am who I say I am because my CA says so

Security Certs on MacOS

Keep safe, my friend

GitHub REST API

I say it's the industry standard for web services

PowerShell Ecosystem

Here are the social media, videos, courses, bloggers

JavaScript from clients

Call REST APIs from static client browsers

Dynatrace (APM)

He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake ...

EasyTravel sample app (from Dynatrace)

A sample multi-tier Java app used by Dynatrace as the basis for measuring infrastructure

Samsung IoT Cloud

It can take it

IoT barn feeder

Provide just enough food for animals at just the right time, automatically

Selling from Static Jekyll sites

Make it easy to get

Gulp Task Runner

Let me do that for you

Mac - iPhone integration

Copy files

Mac Finder Terminal

This is the Mac equivalent of Windows File Explorer

Website Styles

What do you mean by clean, pretty, easy, fun?

MySQL to MariaDB (and Aurora)

It worked for your dad. Embrace it.

Website Style Programming

How to make it clean, pretty, easy, fun

JAM-stack website project plan

Fast, scalable websites with cart and social reach, step-by-step

MacOS Apps

OSX Applications for a long, prosperous, happy life

Intel IoT setup

It will do what you want if ask correctly, in the proper sequence

Java Install on macOS

Because programmers can't get enough caffeine ;)

React Testing automation

Use Jest and Enzyme to make your React apps great again

GitHub Hooks

Let's all hold hands and sing songs

Jenkins2 Pipeline jobs using Groovy code in Jenkinsfile

Slave nodes are now opinionated agents

Amazon and ATT IoT Buttons

Touch and it talks for you

Jenkins Freestyle job

Slave nodes are now opinionated agents

Digital Ocean Cloud Ops

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Notifications

How the computer gets you to do what you should be doing now

Evangelism Cost-Benefit Analysis

Best bang for the buck

Tech Conferences

Meet, greet, and spiff

MongoDB setup

Database

Social

Social

Evangelism dependencies

Sequence of deliverables

DevOps 2.0 in hybrid clouds with Docker

Smart customization with no scripting. No cloud vendor lock-in. Full traceability

Swim.it Cloud Evaluation

Here is how your Internet of Things gets massive, fast

Lithium Klout API

Social management

Static Code Analysis

It has your back ... by riding your back

API JWT Authentication

Authenticate like Google

Mac OSX Homebrew

How to install brew packages based on XCode, Ruby, Homebrew

API Development Ecosystem

It does your job. And helps others to do your job.

API Development Ecosystem with Swagger

It does your job. And helps others to do your job.

AWS server deployment options

Pick which crew of robots to build your servers

Image processing using AWS Lamba actors

Run one after another, independently

Social media strategy

Tell them well

AWS Lambda Serverless (using Python)

An invisible server for the masses

Node.js Installation on MacOS

How to switch among versions of JavaScript using nvm and npm

Jenkins Plugins

You own Minions

Email from Static Jekyll sites

I won't sell it, I promise

HTTP/2 Transition Project Plan

for Project Management to make adoption real

AWS Lambda Basics

Scalable stateless short-lived functions. Nothing to do with Java Lambdas.

SVG Image Files

Sharp corners on every screen

Ansible (for Configuraton)

This robot butler is simple, but not stupid

Search within Hyde format Jekyll websites

Add a feature-rich search box in your JAM stack website

508 Accessibility - for blind and visually impaired

Information to help tools work for all users

Cloud Regions

Who is where

Azure Cloud

Challenger becomes a leader

API Management by Amazon API Gateway

Microservices

About DevOps

You gotta do it for competitive speed

API Management Evaluation

Which to choose?

Website scanners

I'm innocent! Really!

DevOps User Stories by Persona

Value from autonomous speed

API HTTP Responses

Here's what I think of your request

API design tools

Save time and hassle

Play Framework

For easier, faster play for all

DevOps Choices (a Plethora)

You gotta have one of each. Or several.

Microsoft TFS vs. Git and GitHub

Check out Git, then commit to it

LoadRunner JavaScript Coding

Sample code and tutorial here

NGNIX

The kick-ass secure front-end web server proxy

API Portals

Oh the places we go

API Programming

My computer talks with your computers

API Design

Make it work

Generate REST API Test Code

No waiting for test automation

Sound out text on page

Listen to this

Java Google Guava Ecosystem

End of any doubt Googlers are our boss.

Java DevOps Workflow

Write once. Test everywhere.

Next-Previous Topic Navigation

Go through the site in sequence

Accelerated Mobile Pages

Faster is better!

Windows Tile Pin Picture to Website Feed

So your picture can be on everyone's desktop all the time

Authenticate users on Jekyll sites

So you can personalize content

Crop (Mask) images

Get just the right 1900x500 picture for your website

Jekyll templates

The most popular

Image search and edit

Make picture be worth a 1,000 words

Static websites (Jekyll)

Version controlled simplicity

Microsoft Data Science

Here's how to earn a legitimate micro-degree

Personas vs. Participants

You are who you are when

Social media for evangelism

Tell them good

Budget spreadsheet

Your future, in little boxes

Scala programming

The language, not the opera house in Milan

Scala ecosystem

The language, not the opera house in Milan

Resume

I can do it!

Competitive Comparisons

I'm better!

Markdown readers and hosting

Take the easy way or the flexible way

Git Commands and Statuses

The Visual Cheat Sheet

JavaScript in LoadRunner

Sample code and tutorial here

Data visualizations using Tableau

It's so simple, a Data Scientist can do this.

(Statistical Multi-Variate) Regression

How to calculate a formula from multiple variables in Excel, and stistics to evaluate them

Clickable diagrams and maps in Jekyll posts

Includes make me happy

Log Parsers

Analyze without agents

2015

WebTours (from LoadRunner)

A stand-alone sample app that can exhibit performance issues

Walkthroughs and Automatic Scanners

Let's do them together

Website features

Whether it's wanted or not

Using Microsoft Word in a team

8 questions to ask

2014

Ruby with RVM or RBenv on macOS

Switch among multiple versions of Ruby

PHP On macOS

What a Pretty Hypertext Preprocessor!

Screen Capture and Image File Management on Mac OSX

Did I really see that?

Linux Bootup

To diagnose and troubleshoot getting started

Git Utilities

Helps you do your job

Backup Archival and Restore on Mac OSX

Save your life

Git Stash (automated by a script)

Get tips about the most common git commands (including stash, checkout, etc.) executed in a script so you can experiment on your own

Scenarios for load

Artificial

2012

IoT

An index of my work on IoT

Front-end Development

An index of my work creating front-end UI

Docker (Glossary, Certification helps, Ecosystem)

An index to tutorials, support sites, rock stars, and Docker Captains

Cloud innovations

An index to my tutorials about cloud computing

Git and GitHub Topics

An index to my work on Git and GitHub

My MacOS Topics

An index to my work on Apple Macintosh computers (vs. Linux)

Tuning

Performance testing and engineering with monitoring

API links

An index to my work on APIs

Salesforce

An index to my work on Salesforce

DevSecOps

An index to my work on DevSecOps

2011

Job search

with an emphasis on remote jobs