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Continue reading →: ANT – JUNIT – PARALLEL
Looking to speed up your builds by running your Junit tests in parallel with Ant? With Ant 1.9.4, the Junit task now supports the “threads” attribute. The default value is “1”, but can optionally be changed to the number of test threads desired that will be used for parallel test execution.…
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Continue reading →: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Its time to study for AWS Certification #3. I took a little time off, but no more! This time I am going for the SysOps Administrator – Associate certificate. I guess its a little harder than the other 2 certifications I passed, but still within range! Whats hard about some of…
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Continue reading →: Agile Velocity – Don’t Take It Serious
Velocity – Its a metric, but not a metric to take serious. This is my opinion! Is it beneficial to skip story points or think of each story as 1 point? Would it be okay to capture velocity, but tie zero goals or KPI’s to it? Do we need to…
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Continue reading →: Tech Lead – Characteristics
So what makes a good tech lead. In my opinion its something that warrants a type of framework or guide. Its to easy to forget about the little things that make up a good tech lead. After some researching and brainstorming, I came up with the following matrix\chart to better…
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Continue reading →: Blink(1) USB Light
I just got my Blink(1) in the mail today. Its a cool indicator light that hooks into your USB port. There is a ton of potential with this device. You can utilize the Blink1Control2 application to setup event polling triggers or just play around with the colors. (e.g. Show red…
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Continue reading →: Linux Calculator – BC
I was looking to do some quick calculations from the Linux console today and discovered ‘bc‘. Example Command: echo ‘1028 * 8’ | bc I can see how this command could be useful in a shell script!!
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Continue reading →: AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE CERTIFICATION – PASSED
Passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Released February 2018) exam today! These exams are both fun and a little stressful, but you do learn a lot while studying!!! Will post the overall score results when I get them!
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Continue reading →: AWS SAA Certification Prep – 2018
I’m getting ready to take the AWS Solutions Architect Associate 2018 test. Below are some final items I need to review before the exam. AWS FAQ’s: Redshift – https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/faqs/ AWS Config – https://aws.amazon.com/config/faq/ EBS – https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/faqs/ EC2 Types – https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ EBS – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSVolumeTypes.html ECS – https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/faqs/ ECR – https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/faqs/ S3 Perf – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/request-rate-perf-considerations.html S3 Meta – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/building-and-maintaining-an-amazon-s3-metadata-index-without-servers/ Specific…
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Continue reading →: TFS 2018 and XAML Builds
Great news! It looks like XAML builds are supported in TFS 2018 Update 2!!! Check out this blog post for specifics! (Blog Link) For more details on VSTS\TFS agents, check out this link. (Link)
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Continue reading →: AWS DEVELOPER CERTIFICATION – PASSED
Passed the AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam! My broad study plan worked great! Below are my results. Overall Score: 96% Topic Level Scoring: 1.0 AWS Fundamentals: 100% 2.0 Designing and Developing: 100% 3.0 Deployment and Security: 87% 4.0 Debugging: 100% Next step is to attempt the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.
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