Kontroversial Keith

Category: programming

  • Magento, OnePica and Amazon S3 Configuration

    I’m using Magento on Amazon EC2. Part of the infrastructure that I’m going to be using is Amazon S3 to handle user uploaded content and OnePica will manage it. My version of Magento is 1.7. At the moment, OnePica is not officially supported on Magento 1.7 according to the download link. However, my coworker pointed…

  • Amazon EC2 Load Balancer: Out of Service Message

    Let’s say you’re setting up a load balancer for your instances in Amazon’s EC2. After you create your load balancer and assign it your instances, you may see on the Health Check tab “Out of Service”. The way you get rid of it is by clicking on the “Edit Health Check” link. Inside, you will…

  • Why Product People Need to Be More Software People

    I read articles in the past about how Microsoft’s product managers were formerly software developers. Also, I recently saw an inspiring article about Google’s APM (Associate Product Manager program) that Marissa Mayer oversaw. What I’ve come to realize over my career is that people involved in the product decision making process for technology/software MUST come…

  • PHP Curl File Upload

    I spent a little bit of time trying to get my PHP to work with curl uploads. I’ve seen a couple of websites that have varying information, sometimes not really accurate nor helpful on the matter. So I want to present a barebones working example using PHP to demonstrate how to do a file upload…