Category: code

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing platform that lets you run your code without provisioning or managing servers. Java is one of the supported programming languages for AWS Lambda, which makes it a great choice for many applications. However, to get the best performance from your Java-based AWS Lambda functions, you’ll need to follow a…

This is a quick guide on installing GraalVM on your M1 Mac – this guide also works for x86_64 Macs also. This will install GraalVM for Java11 – different Java versions are available here: https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-ce-builds/releases Install GraalVM using Homebrew Give GraalVM permission to run Install using sdkman SDKMAN is a brilliant tool, you can install…

You may have cloned a project and tried running ‘npm install’ only to find the following error message: There’s multiple ways I’ve found to fix this: The Safe ways: Force clear the NPM cache: Rebuild: Remove node_modules: The Nuclear way: As always, I hope this fixes your problem!

Over the past few months, I’ve been pairing (pair programming) with other Software Engineers when working on stories during our sprints. It’s been fun, and the first time in a while I’ve enjoyed and felt rewarded while ‘pairing’. While I’m sitting in the sun, on a beach in Wales enjoying our holiday with my family,…

I came across a money-saving Challenge called the ‘1p Challenge‘. Basically you save an amount of money based on the day number in the year. For example, on January the 1st, you would save 1p. Towards the end of the year, say day 365, you would save £3.65 As you can imagine, this starts saving…

Like most of the code I write these days in my spare time, It’s usually for a little bit of fun! This time, I just wanted to get a random bunch of images from Imgurl.com to collect some “memes”. I’ll warn you now, the internet is not a nice place. People upload all sorts of…