Continuing on with my Adventures with AWS, I needed to point a subdomain to Amazon Web Services, while keeping my primary domain and it's DNS handled at another host. I would consider this is a relatively common need, you have your primary domain hosted somewhere that is handling your DNS for you, but you want… Continue reading Pointing a Subdomain to an AWS EC2 Instance
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Restarting an Amazon EC2 Instance
If your AWS EC2 Instance is unresponsive from the browser and you aren't able to SSH in from your terminal, you may need to restart it. This can happen for a few different reasons, one of which (the one I ran into) being memory management. I was running both Bitbucket and Jira on an EC2… Continue reading Restarting an Amazon EC2 Instance
Configuring AWS Elastic IP’s
An Amazon Web Services Elastic IP is essentially an IP address that is tied to your AWS account. It's not specifically tied to any given EC2 instance and can be used for multiple instances. When you launch your first EC2 instance you're immediately assigned a Public IP address. This IP address is not permanent and if… Continue reading Configuring AWS Elastic IP’s
AWS (Amazon Web Services) for Front End Developers
Hosting in 2016 is no small matter. There are a ton of great hosting providers out there, each with their own unique spin. The classics like Hostgator, Mediatemple, Namecheap etc are still around and doing great work but there are relatively new players in the field too like DigitalOcean, who just bill by the hour for… Continue reading AWS (Amazon Web Services) for Front End Developers
The Best You Can
In development, client focused development in particular, it's easy to get discouraged by requirements. You must use a certain CMS. You must fit everything within an outdated framework. You must use an outdated version of jQuery. You must support unreasonable legacy browsers (IE6 I'm looking at you) You must run every change through x levels… Continue reading The Best You Can
How to Turn off Apple Music Auto-Renew
Apple Music was released today and with it comes a monthly subscription. A single membership is $9.99 and a family membership is $14.99. Want to use the 3 month free trial but don't want to be billed when it runs out? It's easy to turn off the auto-renew. After you've signed up, do the following… Continue reading How to Turn off Apple Music Auto-Renew
geoJSON US States and Counties
When working with maps and JavaScript, if you need to outline or shade states or counties on a map you need a huge list of coordinates that make up that shape. Sometimes it's a single polygon but sometimes, like in the case of Alaska, it's a MultiPolygon. I've worked on more maps in the last… Continue reading geoJSON US States and Counties
Slide To Download Mobile UI
We live in an increasingly mobile world but most elements and interactions on the web are still predominantly designed for desktop. One such interaction is clicking to download. Using an anchor or button to click to download works great on the desktop. It's easy to quickly target the area with your mouse and click and you need… Continue reading Slide To Download Mobile UI
How to activate Netflix’s secret menu
There will come a time in many of our lives when we have a device that is logged into a Netflix account that we no longer have access to. This could be either because it's a friend or family members Netflix account or maybe it's simply a trial that has run out and the account… Continue reading How to activate Netflix’s secret menu
Fixing Chromecast Casting Errors
Tl;dr? Try downloading Chrome Canary and installing the Chrome cast extension. For the past few years I've been connecting my computer to my TV through various wired methods. I started with an A/V cable and worked my way up to an HDMI cable as soon as I could. That said, less is best, and I… Continue reading Fixing Chromecast Casting Errors