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A Static Website as cheaply as possible with Azure Storage, Azure CDN, HTTPS and a Custom Domain

Last Friday I finally got to playing with Azure. My first assignment was to host a static website as cheap as possible. I decided to use Azure Storage. Below are the links needed to duplicate this effort: Shows you step by step on howto do it using the Azure dashboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_gDYlRBAZw For me, I use Google Domains, so I needed a way to forward my root domain to my subdomain of www.blahblah.com: https://www.tachyonstemplates.com/2018/google-domains-forward-root Too

El Periódico - December 2019

Experiences * Christmas Eve in Manteca, Ca * Christmas Day in Newark, Ca * Last Home Game of the Oakland Raiders in Oakland. * Golden State Warriors, VIP Courtside experience * Completed Semester #4 @CSUF Photos of the Month Contemplation Capitalism develops technology and underutilizes it's human resources. Books This Month Hunter of Stories By: Eduardo Galeano, Mark Fried - translator Enlightenment Now The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress By: Steven Pinker

Exploration of DevOps

The YouTube video: Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr”, is a great starting point for anyone really looking to learn why DevOps is important for organization that are trying to improve their software delivery process. They share a great story on how lots of organizations have internal conflicts in how software is delivered. They go over a use case that discusses at the time one of the hottest websites that existed in 2009; Flickr.

El Periódico – November 2019

Events I was able to attend the Monday night football game at Levi’s stadium as the 49ers played against the Seattle Seahawks. Travel China! Photos of the Month San Francisco 49ers, Levi's Stadium Shanghai, China - Skyline Contemplations Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. -Abraham Lincoln A phenomenon will be said to be controlled when, through the useof past experience, we can predict, at least within limits, how the phenomenon may be expecte

El Periódico – October 2019

Travel Santa Cruz - My son and I meet the Author of Dog Man and Captian Underpants. The event was nice and my son had a great time. We got to meet Dav and enjoyed the many activities that was available. Photo of the Month Contemplations "Any time you're guessing, you got to lose. The only way to win is to have the other fella guess. That's my theory: never be a guesser. Never take a position in life. You give the other guy the first guess, and you always come out best. You can't make a mistak

Week 6 thru 8 - Master's Project - Making Drupal 8 CI/CD

Week 6 thru 8 has been a week of research, investigation, and recovering. Researching CI/CD, investigating best hosting, and with recovering; well, my system with the latest MacOS X OS software and Aquia DevDesktop seized to work because Apple decided to eliminate 32-bit software. As I continue my exploration of Drupal 8, I'm now trying to solve several big questions: 1. How to make the site CI/CD capable. There is a lot of information on the web on this and a lot of paid services that ca

Week 5 - Master's Project - Time to Present at Drupal BadCamp 2019

For over 13 years the Bay Area Drupal Camp has gathered thousands from a worldwide community of Drupal users, developers, marketers and content specialists to share their expertise, and level up their skills. This year I decided to take the opportunity to present ADD at the developer conference. I used my Ricoh experience as a Solutions Engineer and the knowledge gained from my master’s class to put together a presentation on how ADD can work with architecting systems or systems of systems with

El Periódico - September 2019

September was filled with lots of Family events. Not only does the month start with approximately 5 birthdays in a row. We had a wedding in Stockton and a Quinceañera celebration to attend. Travel No Travel. Contemplation “It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.” -Fidel Castro Random 1 Purchased a new car. =)

Drupal 8, Software Engineering, Open Source, CSUF

Week 4 - Playground: Acquia Lighting for Drupal 8

I'm trying to see if I can use Lightning as the base profile for a future site that I want to create. So far, I'm on step 0, trying to understand how Drupal 8 with composer works. I want to ensure that I can create a development environment, push to a testing server, and from testing to staging and then staging to production. I hope to document my findings in this blog so that I can share my experience. References: Composer-based installer https://github.com/acquia/lightning-project#get-start

Week 3 - Configuration Drupal 8 - Fresh Install

There are a few things that are required to be done in order to follow the best practices within a Drupal 8 site in regards to setting up added security and configuration directories. Below are two items that I performed that allowed me to have a status report with no errors. 1. Secure the Trusted Host Settings - https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/install/trusted-host-settings Example of trusted host configuration setting: $settings['trusted_host_patterns'] = array( '^sitename.com.dd$', );

Open Source, Drupal 8, Software Engineering, CSUF

Week 2 - Master's Project - Drupal 8 Development on Windows 10

I've decided to make the plunge into Drupal 8 development on Windows 10. Below I have a list of links that I found to be the most helpful in getting the installation completed. Drupal 8 is built on the AMP Stack so on Windows 10 I'll need to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or known as WSL. * Apache * MySQL * PHP Resources Installing Windows Subsystem for Linux Installation Guide for Windows 10 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 Installing PHP 7 and Compos

Week 1 - Master's Project - Getting everything organized

This is the beginning of my work for the graduate project and in the first week I've been organizing all of my tools, documents, resources and even configuring my laptop to get things in order so that I can craft a schedule and start work. I've decided to use a combination of a Microsoft Project document and Trello to manage my tasks and the schedule. I plan to abandon one and stick with the winner. The winner will be selected based on me being able to follow up consistently, enjoying the proces