AWS WordPress 6: HTTPS Access
This post is part of a 6-part series to setup a WordPress website on AWS. In this sixth post, website communication to the web server is upgraded to https (i.e., padlock is displayed in the browser's address bar).
A Collection of AWS EC2 Ubuntu Tips
There are numerous tips and short-cuts that one learns while using an Ubuntu instance on AWS EC2 for website development. Here is my growing list.
Be Swift: Code-only iOS app in Swift 4 for Xcode 9
Creating example apps is still a good way to learn Swift and Xcode. I have included the steps to create a code-only initial iOS software project using Swift 4 within Xcode 9. This is my starting point for our app project development.
A Collection of Xcode 9 Tips
There are numerous Xcode 9 tips and short-cuts that one learns during their journey along the app development path. Here is my growing list.
Using CocoaPods with Xcode
Using CocoaPods integrates third-party software libraries into my app's Xcode project cleanly. Pods have several benefits including professionally developed tested code, great usage documentation, and version management independent from my project code.
The future of glass technology and apps
As a software developer for mobile device and high-tech appliances, I'm excited about the innovative display technologies and software highlighted in this Corning Glass video on the future of glass technology.
Data Recording Instrument (DARCI)
DARCI is a clinical data collection tool designed and built for SCRI. It measures differential pressure of air from -5 to 30 cm-H2O with a resolution of 0.05 cm-H2O at 125 samples/sec and records to an internal SD card.
AWS WordPress 5: Post-Installation
This post is part of a 6-part series to setup a WordPress website on AWS. In this fifth post, some post-installation configuration steps are made to the instance to support WordPress.
AWS WordPress 4: Install WordPress
This post is part of a 6-part series to setup a WordPress website on AWS. In this fourth post, the steps to install WordPress on the AWS instance are detailed.
AWS WordPress 3: Setup LAMP
This post is part of a 6-part series to setup a WordPress website on AWS. In this third post, the steps to setup a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack are described.
AWS WordPress 2: Improve Security
This post is part of a 6-part series to setup a WordPress website on AWS. In this second post, the steps to improve security for an instance on AWS are detailed.
AWS WordPress 1: Create EC2 Instance
This post is part of a 6-part series to setup a WordPress website on AWS. In this first post, the steps to create an instance on AWS are detailed.
Real-time plotting of DARCI pressure data
Design details for a Windows app (using Qt, QCustomPlot) that acquires data from a pressure sensor via USB and plots measurements in real-time.
Be Swift: Localization and Internationalization
It only makes sense to develop apps that operate natively in the world's languages and their diverse cultures. To do it right, it takes a healthy attention to detail.
Git and GitFlow
For us, version management for all design files is performed under the Git framework with Git-Flow as the workflow model and SourceTree as the software tool. Remote repositories (i.e., origin) are located on github.
Software Development Best Practices
Having worked on some complicated systems with embedded software, I appreciate the list from this amazingly well-written paper on best practices in software development independent of software language.
App Developer Video – WWDC 2009
The story of four app developers are showcased during the WWDC 2009 keynote. It is this video that inspired me to start the journey to be an iOS app developer. I must have watched this video a hundred times.
Be Swift: A new chapter in iOS app development
With our first iOS app in design and early development phases, it just makes sense from a timing perspective to embrace Swift immediately in our app development.
Coder for Life
I am a coder for life. It is more than writing great software or creating excellent apps. It is a way of thinking through a complex problem logically step by step and knowing the details.
What’s in your toolbox?
As a person masters a craft, their toolbox evolves becoming highly suitable, and functionally precise with fine quality. Artistic masterpieces in their own right that enrich their master's creativity and purposefulness.