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Delivery Service

About 6 months ago I decided to take on the task of building a delivery app for the cannabis industry. Here are a few notes from the journey so far.

Why?

I had just come off building software for Methadone suppliers. It tracked people coming off of harder opiates. As we all know here there is a very strong opiate problem in the United States. It has even caused the redefined CDC Guidelines on Prescribing Opioids for Pain. When the CDC has to step in and scold a country full of doctors we know we have a problem.

How To Get Rich Effects On My Website

I posted a link to Slack once and it loaded up all this cool information. I couldn’t figure out what was going on but was sure that it just ripped a ton of stuff out of the HTML headers. The METADATA.

If you are a relative novice you might not know about all that junk-in-the-trunk that is stuffed into the HTML. It’s pretty bloated. And getting more so.

Preface to Vehemenism

Opening letter to future ultra-violent men.

We stand at a transition. Either at the bottom of a cliff we may ascend, or at the precipice of one we will be pushed from. This “we” is addressed to men alone. Only we are the ones presented with this unique problem. It is a problem of perspective and one that contains many recursive questions. The answer to these questions will ultimately decide whether or not the observer was indeed a man. That question will ultimately distill to a single query: “Am I to destroy myself?”

Killing is Murder

There is a long running question of where the cutoff is from justifiable homicide and outright murder. In the case of war it is a little bit gray. I, as a Catholic, have a guide that is fairly

Drumpf boy is on a roll:

https://www.rt.com/news/380256-assad-foreign-troops-invaders/

Here is my analysis and why this is different.

In the past all the invasions were under the pretense of a country that has “forfeit sovereignty” and or invited the US to intervene.

Test Drive: Mail In A Box

TL;DR

I set up Mail-in-a-Box and it was a quick and painless experience.

Preface

I am tired of managing so many gmail and outlook accounts. Those $5/mo bills really eat at me. So I wanted to try something simple. I got goosebumps when I saw this and had to try it.

I’ll also preface that I was a professional email list manager and built an email service platform that was sending/receiving greater than 20 million emails a day. This is obviously much different, but it’s cool to work in low volume transactional environments. I also hate HATE managing email.

Django And eCommerce

TL;DR

I setup Oscar as a demo ecommerce project in the previous post.

Preface

Backstory

I just finished a post about setting up eCommerce with Python Django and wasn’t totally pleased with the process. Also I don’t think it is fair to only demo a single application. I decided to give Saleor my second slot after talking with several people online and looking through its source. The parent company has a number of nice products which was confidence building.

Django And eCommerce

TL;DR

I like Python and want to use it for eCommerce, so I went through the well known products and settled on Oscar as my demo. It took a while to set up, but was pretty full featured. Python and Django still have to compete with short busses like wordpress and dump trucks like Magento, but I think these tools are ready for me to start pushing.

Preface

Let me say this took me almost 2 days to get through and evaluate, which I’m used to having a demo site up in minutes. After having gone through, I think this could be launched in half an hour. Below are my notes of the process.

Why I Prefer Female Engineers

Preface: This isn’t how it always was. I’ll be honest, I am a 2 part chauvinist, but I am also pragmatic. I also deeply care about the personal and professional outcomes of my team.

Now We Have Engineers

How To Install MapR Test Cluster

This document covers my installation of MapR Converged Platform on an Ubuntu 14.04 cluster.

We are running on the DTAC private cloud so some of the screenshots will show our internal interface. All instances are running in a VM.

Most of this follows the suggested flow given in the lab manual from MapR. Initially I launched the cluster on CentOS 7.3 but that wasn’t supported and it failed. The same with Ubuntu 16.

Networking Transceivers

This is all pretty new stuff for me. I have been a cat5 ethernet guy since the beginning. There was just never a need to push more data than what I was getting. But now with converged storage that need is quite apparent. After having deployed a MapR-FS and doing a speed test I realized where I needed to make improvements.

Again this page is mostly for my notes.