I was so happy when it was announced that Scott Guthrie is coming to Germany for the Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour that I immediately registered for Munich. Many people came from all around Europe, there were even organized buses from Prague. https://twitter.com/spasobn/status/953971074701647872 The trip to Munich was a great adventure, to say the least. The … Continue reading Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour →

AWS offers the following cloud compute products: Lightsail for simple applications. EC2 if you need control of the OS and virtual machine. Elastic Beanstalk if you need virtual machines but want more automation done by AWS for you. ECS, Kubernetes for ECS and Fargate if you want to utilize containers instead of virtual machines. Fargate … Continue reading Getting started with AWS: Cloud Compute →

The starting point for developers wanting to use the Twitch API is the Twitch Developers page. Getting started with the Twitch API is relatively easy: create an account and create an app. Once I've done that, I went through the documentation to find out what I will need to call from the code. The idea of … Continue reading Making of twitch-stream-countdown: Get followed channels →

I have just published my first static website on AWS and it was easy. Run "npm run build" in the terminal, this creates the folder "dist" for Angular or "build" for React (make sure that these folders are included in the .gitignore file) Zip the folder "dist"/"build" Start the static website wizard in the AWS … Continue reading Host a static website on AWS →

I got the idea of building twitch-stream-countdown after having a hard time keeping track of the schedules of all the awesome people that I am watching live coding on Twitch. They usually post on Twitch and/or Twitter when they will be live and there is a Twitch plugin to show a countdown until the next stream but … Continue reading Single-Page Application Libraries →