AWS: How to create your first Alexa skill
How to create your first Alexa skill –with pictures!
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....
Finance: Calculating Annuities using ES6
Annuities are cool. They're fixed payments over a period of time. If you're living in England, there's another financial product called a consol that is an annuity that...
AWS: Lambda development on OS X
Through AWS Lambda [https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/], AWS is completely changing the entire web industry, again. If you're not familiar with Lambda, it's a new AWS compute...
AWS: EC2 + NodeJS + Forever
I have a few ExpressJS applications that use Forever [https://www.npmjs.com/package/forever] to keep things always moving. The scripts below are what I use invoke...
NodeJS: Return Elevation from Google Maps API
Here's how to use Google Maps API to get the elevation of a specific location. /** Use Google maps API to return the elevation of a given [ lat, lng...
Creating an Express app with MongoDB on Openshift (Deprecated)
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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's how to create a...
Streaming Mp3's using SoundManager2 + MediaElement
I've written about 8 or 9 streaming music players in the past six years, and considering how quickly client-side technology changes, I figure I'll have to write a...
Installing Vue + Rails 5.x
How to install Vue.js framework on Ruby on Rails.
