It's been a while since I posted here. Lots has happened. I'm in a new job at Nordstrom. Jen's in a new job at Southwest. The Broncos even won a Super Bowl since I last wrote. You would have thought I would have posted a bunch about that. I should have. I'm regretting having been away.
When I post here I want to post things that others will find interesting. Maybe I should pay attention to those things that I find interesting, because it is times like now that I sort of wonder what I've really been thinking about through last fall and the past winter. Ah well, life springs anew.
What I'd love to do is detail some of the cool things we're doing here at Nordstrom regarding creating software solutions in the cloud, Amazon's AWS to be specific. In the past, the posts here that got the most attention were those regarding Wix. I think that is because I was doing things using Wix that hadn't previously been very well documented before. Not that I documented a whole lot that was new. However, I figured every small problem that I had to scratch out meant someone else would run into it at sometime or another. So I blogged about it.
I'd love to do the same with the AWS things we are doing. We're doing things with AWS that I'm sure not many other people are already doing (in the relative sense), particularly because much of what we are doing is still using Windows and Microsoft tools. (The documentation for using AWS with PowerShell is particularly lacking.) In fact, I will be blogging about it, but most of the details I will be keeping from public eyes, so I'm not sure just how useful it will be outside of Nordstrom. Still, if you are interested in particulars, hit me up, and maybe I'll be able to share.
Jen and I started watching season one of Mr. Robot, and it has me even more paranoid about cyber-security than when I was programming election software. I don't want to give too many details about how we're building an application knowing there are people out there who are after whatever tidbit of information they can get in order to hack credit cards. Not that I don't think what we are creating is secure. It is; perhaps overly so. But no use in giving out information that isn't necessary.
All I'm saying is that I'm dying to blog about these things, but they will necessarily be in rather general terms.
When I post here I want to post things that others will find interesting. Maybe I should pay attention to those things that I find interesting, because it is times like now that I sort of wonder what I've really been thinking about through last fall and the past winter. Ah well, life springs anew.
What I'd love to do is detail some of the cool things we're doing here at Nordstrom regarding creating software solutions in the cloud, Amazon's AWS to be specific. In the past, the posts here that got the most attention were those regarding Wix. I think that is because I was doing things using Wix that hadn't previously been very well documented before. Not that I documented a whole lot that was new. However, I figured every small problem that I had to scratch out meant someone else would run into it at sometime or another. So I blogged about it.
I'd love to do the same with the AWS things we are doing. We're doing things with AWS that I'm sure not many other people are already doing (in the relative sense), particularly because much of what we are doing is still using Windows and Microsoft tools. (The documentation for using AWS with PowerShell is particularly lacking.) In fact, I will be blogging about it, but most of the details I will be keeping from public eyes, so I'm not sure just how useful it will be outside of Nordstrom. Still, if you are interested in particulars, hit me up, and maybe I'll be able to share.
Jen and I started watching season one of Mr. Robot, and it has me even more paranoid about cyber-security than when I was programming election software. I don't want to give too many details about how we're building an application knowing there are people out there who are after whatever tidbit of information they can get in order to hack credit cards. Not that I don't think what we are creating is secure. It is; perhaps overly so. But no use in giving out information that isn't necessary.
All I'm saying is that I'm dying to blog about these things, but they will necessarily be in rather general terms.
