Git: Creating a Branch during Agile Sprints
Here's a tip for new developers learning how to use Git for short sprints. The first step is to create a branch. Step 1 - List...
Chris Mendez
454 postsDigital Product Manager & Social Entrepreneur. Mostly write about AWS, Swift, R, and Ruby.
Install Let's Encrypt SSL on Wordpress Lightsail or EC2 by Bitnami
We are going to use Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority [https://letsencrypt.org/] to create and install a free SSL certificate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step 1 - Log In...
Openshift Cheatsheet
Deprecated Openshift v2.0 has now reached End of Life [https://blog.openshift.com/migrate-to-v3-v2-eol/] and will be replaced by v3.0. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I primarily use Openshift for...
Swift: Load a Wav sound using AVFoundation
I sometimes need to dynamically load a .wav file. Here's how I do it using AVFoundation. func changeSound(_ song:(path: String, format: String)){ var err:NSError?...
Swift: Get Random Boolean
This function will help you get a random true or false boolean value. func randomBool() -> Bool { return arc4random_uniform(2) == 0 ? true : false }...
Ruby Enumberable
I doubt many people will need this but here are a few neat things you can do with Ruby. I won't go into great detail but...
AWS: Install a Node app on AWS
I normally use Heroku [https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs#introduction] or Openshift [https://www.chrisjmendez.com/2012/04/29/expressjs-app-with-mongodb-on-openshift/] to publish apps but AWS works too....
Managing Git on Openshift
Deprecated Openshift v2.0 has now reached End of Life [https://blog.openshift.com/migrate-to-v3-v2-eol/] and will be replaced by v3.0. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Openshift comes with Git and...
Rails: Querying the model
Thanks to some metaprogramming magic, whenever you create a column within a table, you get a free find_by_[name of column] method. Create a new Friend model...
Themes for Terminal
Here are a few themes I like for Mac Terminal. If you're not a fan of Terminal itself, I also suggest looking into iTerm2 [https://www....
Interesting Music Projects
Here are a list of interesting music projects. Classifiers and Curators * Music Map [https://developers.musimap.net/] is attempting to create a database that organizes music into emotional...
Installing Ghost Blog v0.11.x on your local computer (Deprecated)
!!! DEPRECATED !!! This article was designed for older versions of Ghost such as Ghost 0.11.1 [https://dev.ghost.org/ghost-0-11-1/]. If you are planning to install the...
Working with real-time data streams
Real-time data is a big deal and here are a few popular services I've used to build web apps. I went ahead and organized this a...
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