I recently had a need to search Amazon S3 files and was very excited to discover how powerful the aws cli tool was when combined with the jmes query language

The first step was to install the aws cli tool. There is a graphic installer available for...

I had previously integrated a client’s web application with the Zoho API and learned that they were planning to sunset the version 1 of the API at the end of 2019. So I set about figuring out a way to integrate V2 with our application. v2 of the Zoho...

I’ve released a new salsa and latin dancing website! The main feature to start is a weekly-ish newsletter, highlighting a new move that has been added to the site. We’ll aggregate the best videos available demonstrating the move.

The site was built...

I recently created a new Elixir 1.8/Phoenix 1.4 application. One of the first things I do when creating a new application is ensuring I have SASS set up and ready to use. I was surprised at how easy it was to set up SASS with Phoenix 1.4, which now...

I recently released a tea timer progressive web application built with the Ember Octane blueprint circa Feb 2019 (prerelease). The application stores a list of teas in the user’s local storage, and allows people to add, remove, edit or restore from...

My local tea shop always serves teas with a timer, and I appreciate that it keeps my teas – especially green or black teas from getting nasty as I zone out with web development. I decided to make a tea timer app to get the same benefits at home...

I have found converting flac to mp3 on Mac to be a recurring challenge. It occurred to me today that ffmpeg could probably handle this. It can do – as it turns out – very nicely.

Doing a large group of files seemed like a bit of a pain though, and...

I recently wrote some feature tests with Rspec and Capybara for a Rails application that made use of the vue-select component. This needs to be done with a js driver such as headless-chrome activated. This method worked for me:

  scenario 'prefill...

This is written in response to the call for #emberjs2018 blog posts.

I am a sole proprietor developer doing work for a variety of small-to medium-sized clients and also building side projects for kicks using mostly Ruby on Rails and Ember, as well...

Our recently released Cloud Cookbooks Ember application was recently featured in an article by Yvette d'Entremont published in the Metro Halifax newspaper, Cooking On The Cloud

I am available for Ruby on Rails and Ember consulting work – get...