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Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

@keithweaver
keithweaver / domain-to-aws-ec2-instance.md
Created March 20, 2017 23:49
Point Domain to Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Instance

Point Domain to Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Instance

  1. Open the Amazon Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/.
  2. If you are new to Amazon Route 53, you see a welcome page; choose Get Started Now for DNS Management. Otherwise, choose Hosted Zones in the navigation pane.
  3. Choose Create Hosted Zone.
  4. For Domain Name, type your domain name.
  5. Choose Create.
  6. Click the Hosted Zone, edit record set.
  7. In the value, add ec2-54-152-134-146.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
  8. Change your DNS file to point to the IPv4 address (This would be in something like GoDaddy).
@cecilemuller
cecilemuller / 2019-https-localhost.md
Last active April 30, 2025 12:33
How to create an HTTPS certificate for localhost domains

How to create an HTTPS certificate for localhost domains

This focuses on generating the certificates for loading local virtual hosts hosted on your computer, for development only.

Do not use self-signed certificates in production ! For online certificates, use Let's Encrypt instead (tutorial).

@dccampbell
dccampbell / PrintToPDF.php
Created October 1, 2018 07:08
Minimal PHP example of printing HTML to PDF using Headless Chrome
<?php
$chromeExec = 'google-chrome';
$inputFile = __DIR__.'/input.html';
$outputFile = __DIR__.'/output.pdf';
$version = shell_exec($chromeExec . ' --version 2>&1');
if(!strpos($version, 'Google Chrome') === 0) {
throw new Exception('Google Chrome not found at: '.$chromeExec);
@ryderdamen
ryderdamen / gce-to-gcs-uploads.md
Created December 4, 2018 15:43
Uploading Files from Google Compute Engine (GCE) VMs to Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

Uploading Files from Google Compute Engine (GCE) VMs to Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

I had a bit of trouble trying to configure permissions to upload files from my Google Compute Engine instance to my Google Cloud Storage bucket. The process isn't as intuitive as you think. There are a few permissions issues that need to be configured before this can happen. Here are the steps I took to get things working.

Let's say you want to upload yourfile.txt to a GCS bucket from your virtual machine. You can use the gsutil command line tool that comes installed on all GCE instances.

If you've never used the gcloud or gsutil command line tools on this machine before, you will need to initialize them with a service account.

@evansims
evansims / Dockerfile
Last active September 16, 2024 07:08
Dockerfile: php-fpm 7.4-fpm alpine w/ gd bz2 intl mbstring redis mongodb xdebug opcache
FROM php:7.4-fpm-alpine
WORKDIR "/application"
# Install essential build tools
RUN apk add --no-cache \
git \
yarn \
autoconf \
g++ \
make \