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Campervans

Transit campervan conversion - Spare wheel carrier

1 minute read

Ford Transit Mk7 Spare Wheel Carrier

Code-cloud

Accessing elasticache redis from AWS Java Lambda + Cloudformation

4 minute read

I had real trouble trying to find tutorials, or even solid documentation on how to get this setup, and even more trouble getting the Cloudformation scripts t...

Code-testing

Custom intern properties

1 minute read

You can define custom properties in your intern config file and access then by requiring intern var intern = require('intern'); and using intern.config.{pro...

Stubbing server responses with wiremock for functional testing a web app

1 minute read

If, like me, you want to run functional tests against a stub server, or fake server as some call it, the easiest way I’ve found is to simply start a wiremock...

Chaining intern test steps and assertions

1 minute read

The appeal of using Intern for functional testing web apps, was the easy setup and use of the ‘SeleniumTunnel’ which means you don’t have to manually install...

Unlocking an Android Emulator with a pin lock set - appium & mitmdump

less than 1 minute read

When running Appium tests against Android Lollipop (API 22) (5.1), you might need to unlock the device using a passcode or password. My use case was using mi...

Travel

Nepal - Mardi Himal Trek

19 minute read

I took a ‘career break’ from April 2017 to April 2018, to travel, learn new skills, spend more time in bed and do stuff that I used to do before getting a de...