Chris Mendez
453 postsDigital Product Manager & Social Entrepreneur. Mostly write about AWS, Swift, R, and Ruby.
Where to place your files on Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Raspberry Pi
As a regular EC2 user, commands such as ssh, scp, tar, zip, chmod and chown are like BFF's. The only thing I can't remember...
Anatomy of a Sitar for Guitarists
This diagram shows you the anatomy of the sitar. The diagram is really for reference but there are a few things worth mentioning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Base The entire...
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'...
Charging SaaS customers using AWS API Gateway
Keys are used to provide access to specific locks. Before we can talk about keys, let's make sure we know how to create a lock using...
Bash: EC2 Script
This script is designed for AWS EC2 manager interested in installing an apache server, then copying web page files from an AWS S3 bucket to Apache's...
Simple Mailgun Test using Node & Jake
Send emails via Mailgun on your local computer using Javascript & Jake.
AWS: Lambda Security Basics
I love AWS Lambda because I can run my code on Amazon's servers without having to manage servers, operating systems, scaling, provisioning, or even deployment. HOW...
AWS: Lambda development on OS X
Through AWS Lambda [https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/], AWS is completely changing the entire web industry, again. If you're not familiar with Lambda, it's...
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...
AWS: Install AWS Command Line CLI on Mac OSX
The AWS command line client allows you to create, modify and manage your Amazon Web Services from your local terminal. If you're on a Mac and...
Installing Weka on OS X
Weka [http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/downloading.html] is a data-mining tool that can help you build out decision trees using Java. I will write...
Creating a Privacy Policy document for your app
If you plan to publish an app to the iTunes store [https://itunesconnect.apple.com], there's a really good chance you will need to draft and...