Have you ever thought about creating a newsletter for all the great content you write but don’t have the time to put one together each week? Boy, do I have a surprise for you!

I will show you how you can send an automated email every week containing your most recent blog posts from Medium. As long as you are creating new content, your email will always be different!

If you are not a Medium writer, no worries, about 99% of this article will still apply to you; you will just pull your content from a different source.

The point…

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article demonstrating how to create a form in React. As I feel this exercise is an essential building block in learning a new front-end framework, I’ve done the same in Vue.js.

Important concepts in this exercise include creating a form, using inputs, event handling on submit, creating a table, custom methods, computed properties, sorting a list, vue-directives, etc. The list goes on and on!

Who would have thought you could learn so much from such a simple application?

Objective

Take the input from a user using a form and output the data as…

Objective

Launch a simple Vue application after setting up a local development environment.

These are the tools you will install throughout the duration of this tutorial:

• Visual Studio Code (VS Code): This certainly isn’t a requirement for creating Vue applications, but it is my recommended text editor. I believe it makes software development a lot more enjoyable and productive.
• Git Bash: Git is a very popular tool used to manage source code, especially if you are working on a large development team. VS Code allows you to integrate a Git Bash terminal, and this makes pushing your code to Git repositories…

The public cloud is taking over whether you like it or not. And what’s not to like about it?

Cloud computing has made it incredibly easy to manage all of our computer system resources. It has provided a layer of abstraction that seemed impossible before 2006.

No longer do we have to manage our underlying infrastructure physically. These developments mean we no longer have to:

• Buy the real estate to house our servers.
• Hire workers to deal with maintenance (heating/cooling, wires, etc.)
• Add new physical servers when we see a spike in usage.
• Be bottlenecked by any type of infrastructure…

When I first started my AWS journey just a few months ago, all I knew was that I wanted to get certified.

I knew that everything in Information Technology revolves around the cloud. So why wouldn’t I want to become an expert in it?

I knew that, on average, AWS certified workers make north of $130,000, according to Global Knowledge.

But what I did not know was which certification I should be going after. Solutions Architect or Developer?

From conducting research on the internet, I discovered that mean salaries are higher for Solutions Architect (only very slightly). …

So you’ve decided to take the AWS Solutions Architect exam. A fantastic choice! You’re ready to level up in your career and dive deeper into the fascinating world of AWS.

The only problem is you have no idea where to start because you’ve never prepared for a certification like this and/or have no experience with AWS.

Do not worry. I was in the same boat not too long ago.

Before starting preparation for this exam, I had very little exposure to AWS. The most I had done was host a static site using an S3 bucket.

Also, I had never…

I recently completed reading The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim. What a fantastic read. I had no idea a book about the least exciting part of my job could be so riveting. I gained an entirely new perspective on my career as a software engineer and IT in general.

This book is essential to everyone in Information Technology regardless of your role. To create value at any level in the organizational hierarchy, it’s important to understand why upper management is doing the things they are doing.

This book gives you a holistic understanding of IT operations. It puts you in…

After hours and hours of searching for a way to download file attachments from an API POST request, I finally put together bits and pieces of different Stack Overflow and blog posts to get it working.

This should not be that hard. And honestly, it wasn’t.

I used this inside of my Spring project, but the logic will still be the same across other types of Java projects.

I will also show you how to test the endpoint using Postman.

Objective

The objective is to download a file attachment sent from an API POST request.

If you would like to follow…