I started to work with Elastic Beanstalk on AWS recently and ran into an issue when trying to deploy a Node.js app that I thought might be worth sharing. I created a test Node.js and Express application locally that worked fine and I then tried deploying using the Elastic Beanstalk console. Everything appeared to deploy correctly but when I tried accessing my url I received the following error '502 Bad Gateway on nginx/1.2.6'... Read more
I came across a service for finding available domain names that I absolutely love, its called Bust A Name. To use the service you choose several keywords that you would potentially like in your domain name and it checks out all the available permutations. Read more
Have you ever seen a font you really love but are unsure what it actually is? Yesterday I ran into an issue where I had a logo created by a contractor who is long gone and I needed to know what font he used in the logo. How hard could that be? Read more
One of my New Year's resolution for 2013 was to start to blog. I have always enjoyed writing, earlier in my career I wrote regularly for some trade magazines and even wrote a few chapters for a technical book, but recently I only seem to write emails, slides, and reports. I view writing as a vital skill that needs to be exercised so... Read more
