![Radio: Preparing WAV files for cloud-based radio](/content/images/size/w800/2018/02/wav-to-flac-a-love-story.png)
Tools for Software Engineers
34 postsTools to help engineers solve common software problems.
![Radio: Preparing WAV files for cloud-based radio](/content/images/size/w800/2018/02/wav-to-flac-a-love-story.png)
![Basic tools for scraping data](/content/images/size/w800/2023/07/chrisjmendez-data-scraping.png)
GIF encoder / decoder
This article from Dennis Felsing [https://hookrace.net/blog/time.gif/] captured my attention i seconds. "Can you really embed a GIF with code? Can you do...
How to create a temporary email address
I'm working on an app that aims to use Amazon Cognito for user registration and one of the things I need to test is e-mail signup....
Where to find free fonts
Let's be real, Google Fonts is amazing but they're not the end-all be-all. When you're looking for more, try these services below....
My Favorite Visual Studio Code Plugins
I started using Textmate [http://macromates.com/] in 2004 because it was Rails friendly. Lately I've been using Visual Studio Code [https://code.visualstudio.com/Download]...
Shell variables vs. Environment variables
I've been doing a lot of work within the AWS Command Line [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/index.html] and it'...
Awesome OS X Command Lines
Thank you @herrbischoff [https://twitter.com/herrbischoff] for creating this A curated list of shell commands and tools specific to OS X [https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-osx-command-line] and...
![Creating GIF previews out of MOV files](/content/images/size/w800/2018/01/mov-to-gif.png)
![R: Installing R on a Mac using Homebrew](/content/images/size/w800/2018/06/r-and-ruby.png)
Using Jenkins to Trigger Rake Tasks
This tutorial [https://www.chrisjmendez.com/2017/01/08/installing-jenkins-using-virtualbox-and-vagrant/] will show you how to install Jenkins on Linux Debian using VirtualBox and Vagrant. After you've...
![Installing Jenkins using VirtualBox and Vagrant](/content/images/size/w800/2018/01/running-a-scheduler.png)
![Anatomy of an Angular 2 App](/content/images/size/w800/2018/01/angular.png)
![Heroku: Managing Multiple Accounts](/content/images/size/w800/2018/04/accounts.png)
![Rails: Grab a Tweet and save it to JSON or YAML](/content/images/size/w800/2018/04/rails-console.png)
Heroku: Working with Git and Github
Heroku uses Git for version control and collaborative coding. Below are a few helpful commands plus a better process for app development.
![Tools for App Makers](/content/images/size/w800/2018/04/tools-for-app-builders.png)
![How to tell git to ignore a specific file](/content/images/size/w800/2016/12/git-update-index.png)
![Github Basics using Command Line](/content/images/size/w800/2016/11/github.png)
![Installing Elixir and Phoenix on a Mac](/content/images/size/w800/2018/11/Death_to_stock_cycling_in_Seattle_7.png)
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...
![My Favorite TextMate Commands](/content/images/size/w800/2018/11/research.png)
![Testing web app performance with Apache Benchmark](/content/images/size/w800/2018/01/benchmarking-tools.png)
![Find the biggest files taking up space on your Mac](/content/images/size/w800/2018/01/finding-files.png)