Submitted by christian on Thu, 09/14/2017 - 12:48
This blog and its predecessor have been hosted on a shared hosting server (Hostgator and Arvixe). These providers are great as they make hosting both basic, PHP-based websites and email incredibly easy. However, these providers are not as straight-forward when setting up multiple SSL certificates, Node.JS sites, or other more advanced needs. That being the direction I'm moving towards and doing more work within Amazon's AWS Cloud infrastructure, I've decided to migrate away from share hosting providers.
Submitted by christian on Wed, 09/16/2015 - 10:42
Just as I was complaining that I lacked ideas for a project to work on to prove my development skills an idea hit me. One drawback that I see in starting the development of any project is getting things setup. Especially since I haven't done a lot of in-depth programming lately. This post describes what I chose to work with (Laravel, Eclipse, GitHub, and an Ubuntu server in a VM) and hurdles faces in just getting setup to do the actual dev work.
Submitted by christian on Fri, 07/10/2015 - 11:12
A friend asked me to take a look at a laptop he “bought from a guy at home depot for $20”. He wanted to see if I can get it setup and running for him. At first I was afraid he was suckered into buying a stolen laptop. After playing with it for a few minutes I realized that he was in fact suckered, but the laptop likely wasn’t stolen. Instead this list began to form in my mind: “Signs that your laptop is a klunker”.
Submitted by christian on Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:26
A friend recently asked me my opinions on where he should focus on in terms of getting into the tech industry. He’s wanting to self-teach while he prepares to go to school to earn his paper degree. I wrote up my thoughts on what the current market demands are and what he can focus on. I figured, it served as a good summary to post here.
