Yeah Travis can get super expensive. Gitlab hosting = you handle hosting or you pay them to do it?

We had ~10 people go to this and they said it was way too big and spread out to really manage. Plus obv its aws specific.

QCon has like 20 different tracks that aren't specific to any language or platform. However I think Barrin lives in SF, so no travel would be lame (staycation!)

Gitlab.com hosting is let them do it. $4/user and the CI is built in. And it even seems to have an artifact repo (which comes in real handy for rollbacks and pushing to multiple places): https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/proj...artifacts.html

My ex just told me that last year at AWS in Vegas a mild mannered married coworker ended up performing analingus on some young dude (yes dude, boo this story) at a strip club while the strippers cheered him on. The coworker was never seen again. She thinks AWS Vegas is a big debauched orgy.

I'm guessing Anaheim won't be quite as crazy. There is bowling until 11pm though!

we use bitbucket pipeline as well.

Hoping to learn something useful. I'm a big computer science nerd, not so much a tech nerd.

I went to Scala Days last year in Chicago and I felt like a lot of the talks were advertisements of people's open source projects.

I figure I should pick a conference in some cool city. Some of my coworkers are going to this https://thestrangeloop.com

Have heard many good things about Strange Loop. For next year, check out https://www.deconstructconf.com/2017

Has anyone tried the full AWS CI/CD flow? https://blog.frugalops.com/ci-and-cd...ine-codebuild/

Putting all the eggs in one basket like that makes me a little queasy. I think AWS vendor lock-in is gonna make Oracle vendor lock-in look like child's play. Someday. But those decisions are above my pay grade.

I have no useful tips, but I'm also pretty skeptical of going all-in on AWS secret sauce tooling. It definitely has advantages, especially for early companies, but I don't think its worth it in most cases.

I'm also pretty skeptical of going all-in on serverless as well. But I think its a pretty cool opportunity for you to try it out.

um so I'm not crazy in that JS window.open() is super old/outdated/not to be used in 2018 right? Another group at my dinosaur company seems to think otherwise..

Even i knew that and I hate JS

TBH going all in on serverless seems way worse than standard vendor lock in.

Yeah I feel like the plan is to shoot for full serverless but fall back if it can't work for some reason.

Um, this seems bad? From the AWS Code Commit FAQ:

Does a server need to support more commands than that?

Um yeah - this is their answer for code review: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/...-review-board/

Gross.

I mean you can use window.open in theory and I'm sure there are some times useful but based on your post I'm guessing this isn't one of those times. It's rare to have it be the best way to do something that's for sure.

We're using it for auth i.e. click logon a new popup window appears you fill it in it dismisses itself on success. Gross.

You should modernize and use a Java applet.

Wtf that's like the one time modals are acceptable

It's not a modal - it's a pop-up window.

what do you use instead of window.open?

In our world a modal was just a div that appeared over the page - it might look kind of like a popup window, but it wasn't a separate browser window. Maybe everyone doesn't use that terminology.

Suzzer, I always used the same terminology as you. But its been awhile, so I don't know.

For folks using bootstrap this is still the case, at least. I've never heard a popup referred to as a modal. For one thing, they aren't "modal" in the analogy to desktop modal dialogs.

Yea I just meant usually the design choice I've seen is to put login stuff in a modal, not open another window. But I guess it's probably required here?

In traditional desktop design a modal dialog is a separate window that blocks further interaction with the parent app until the modal is resolved. This differs from a normal popup window that might be informational, or give another data view, etc.

In JS I have commonly heard anyone call anything that goes over the page content (like, as a div) as a modal

Modals are just divs.

Modal just means the opposite of modeless. As a noun, it's also a shorthand for a few related but not identical things, modal window, modal dialog, modal form, etc. I think any user interface element whose appearance restricts the options the user has until it is dismissed is modal, regardless of the form it takes.

Hey guys, I'm looking for some school/career advice. Any input would be much appreciated.

Background: 32 years old / poker player for most of my 20s / previous BA degree in non-technical field.

I'm currently completing a post-bachelor diploma (CS) program at a good university. So far, so good: I'm four courses away from graduation, I've completed one internship, and I'll do one more before graduation. The program has exposed me to all the CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, operating systems, etc) and a fair bit of math (discrete math I & II, linear alg, calc I). I feel well prepared to enter the industry.

Now that I'm almost done, I'm considering extending my program into a full second degree. This obviously looks much better on paper than "diploma", but the additional courses I would be taking will not be particularly useful to my chosen career (Calc II, Numerical Analysis, a BS technical writing course, etc). I want to be a web developer so much of my education is arguably already overkill. The main reasons the second degree appeals to me is that it's only 8 extra courses, it will look good to employers, and it may help me feel like a bit less of an impostor. The additional time + money cost is insignificant to me, but going through the additional courses will undoubtedly bring me pain and anxiety. I feel like the answer is staring me in the face, but I don't want to look back with regret.