If you’re a content creator, you might need the ability to record your screen and microphone as you narrate what you’re doing. On Windows or MacOS, I typically use TechSmith Camtasia for this purpose. However, Camtasia isn’t available on Chromebook at the moment. At first, I was concerned that I …
While you’re developing an Electron-based application, it’s nice to be able to make changes without having to manually stop and restart your application. To aid in that, someone created an NPM package named electron-reload, which integrates easily with your application, requiring minimal changes, and giving you live-reload functionality. Simply install …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) just recently announced support for running terminal sessions on your Amazon EC2 instances directly inside of your web browser. This feature works with both Bash on Linux and PowerShell sessions on EC2 instances running Windows Server. AWS Systems Manager is the service that introduced this new …
Overview If you’re a motorcycle rider, like me, you might be interested in recording audio and video during your rides. Recording your ride can offer both entertainment and security. I bought a Bilt Techno 2.0 Evolution modular helmet from Cyclegear, which also included an integrated Sena DWO-5 headset (Sena SMH-5 …
If you’re writing software, running quality assurance (QA) tests, or testing out a new data management tool, you might want to generate some random data. Although there are many other options out there, you can use Python for this purpose. There’s an open source Python package called Faker that will …
Background Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud9 provides a cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) where you can author, test, and deploy your .NET Core and PowerShell-based applications. You can connect to your Cloud9 IDE using a web browser. One of my favorite features offered by Cloud9, that enables developers to comfortably …
Sometimes you’ll need to initialize a new buffer as an array of bytes. For example, if you want to generate random data using the NextBytes() method on the System.Random class, you need to pass in a byte array buffer for the method to write to. Creating a byte array in …
Are you on Mac OS and need to keep your AWS PowerShell module up-to-date? As you’ve probably noticed, there are frequently new versions of the AWS PowerShell module being released, to keep pace with new services and service features being added to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Updating PowerShell modules …
I keep forgetting the names of the parameters that are passed into the ScriptBlock handlers for PowerShell Intellisense (aka. tab-completion / auto-completion). Hence, I’m posting the list of parameters here, along with a simple example. $commandName – the name of the PowerShell command that Intellisense was invoked for. $parameterName – …
Someone recently was asking for an AWS CloudFormation template, in YAML format as opposed to JSON, that would deploy an EC2 instance running Windows Server, and supported a PowerShell-based UserData script. In response to this, I created the YAML snippet below. Note that the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID is …
