Category Archives: Programming

Google Sheets: Add a date when the row was last updated

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Chris

You have a Google Sheet, you’d like a (or all) row(s) to have a date-stamp added whenever an edit is made. That way others you’re collaborating with will know when the row, or the sheet itself, was last updated at … Continue reading →

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Get Docker running on AWS OpsWorks

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Chris

I’ve spent the past couple of weeks at my new job doing a couple of things: hiring kick ass Python and UI engineers and getting some build-and-deploy infrastructure set up so the team can hit the ground running. Long story … Continue reading →

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Heroku: Try ALL THE PaaSes

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Chris

For fun, I’m writing a series of blog posts breaking out what it takes to deploy twitter-dedupe to a variety of Platforms as a service. All of my sanitized config files are on GitHub. Today I’ll cover deploying twitter-dedupe to … Continue reading →

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Try ALL THE PaaSes

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Chris

I chose to deploy twitter-dedpue to Heroku to power @slatemaglite. For fun, I’m writing a series of blog posts breaking out what it takes to deploy this app to a variety of Platforms as a service. I intend to keep … Continue reading →

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Keep VirtualBox guest additions up to date in your Vagrant boxes

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Chris

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest “And that’s it. From now on every vagrant up will check & install the correct guest additions right after booting:” Every time I ever booted a vagrant box and it yelled at me my guest additions … Continue reading →

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Agility in a nutshell: Look, try, learn, repeat; favor easy change

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Chris

What to do: Find out where you are Take a small step towards your goal Adjust your understanding based on what you learned Repeat How to do it: When faced with two of more alternatives that deliver roughly the same … Continue reading →

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