Marking the region is basically selecting the text to run some operation onto it. Many command in Emacs operate on parts of the current buffer, to specify the text for such commands, we need to select the text by marking it at one end of it and move the point to the other end. This [...]
DAY 1 – Welcome to Emacs
Learn emacs by practice, some list of topics worth learning and ways on how to control and move around emacs.
How to tweet your octopress post to twitter.
Thanks to the blog post by Tony Guntharp who got inspired by another blog post by Adnan Abdulhussein on how to integrate twitter posting with Octopress. His post was some 3 Years old which details how to configure octopress to send your post on twitter. The twitter gem for Octopress version has 5.16.0 gone through a lot of changes, So I did some rework on the [...]
Github Pages for Personal Blogging
Understanding how to use GitHub Pages for personal blogging, information Site its setup, limitation and precautions to note.
How to quickly extract emails from your mailbox.
Quick tips to extract emails and make a mailing list from your gmail inbox.
Free SSL “https” setup using github pages cloudflare.
Google wants us to use https to rank our site, they prioritise HTTPS over HTTP and when you are hosting your personal website/blog site on Github Pages you should consider using https. Read below to learn more about how to setup up SSL and https for free using github pages and cloudflare SSL. With CloudFlare [...]
What’s new at Amazon AWS.
AWS Secrets Manager now supports VPC endpoint policies AWS Secrets Manager now supports VPC endpoint policies, making it easier for you to restrict egress of secrets from your Amazon VPC. When you create a VPC endpoint for Secrets Manager, you can attach an endpoint policy to define the Secrets Manager actions that can be performed, [...]
Amazon Announcements – May 15 2019
A Weekly Review of the Latest Announcements from AWS Compute Amazon EC2 I3en instances, offering up to 60 TB of NVMe SSD instance storage, are now generally available » Amazon ECR Repository Tagging available in Hong Kong, Stockholm, and AWS GovCloud (US) » AWS Storage Gateway enhances access control for SMB shares to store and [...]
Amazon Announcements -May 8 2019
A Weekly Review of the Latest Announcements from AWS Analytics Amazon EMR announces Support for Multiple Master nodes to enable High Availability for EMR applications » Amazon EMR announces Support for Reconfiguring Applications on Running EMR Clusters » Application Integration Amazon MQ Now Supports Resource-Level and Tag-Based Permissions » Compute Amazon ECS Console support for [...]
Financial goals
Like everything else in life, it is paramount to set financial goals, we don't want to get old and have nothing in our hand to live our life. Instead of living a struggling life in old age we must prepare ourselves to set financial goals. The problem is our education system makes us so focused [...]