You are smart but we don’t have a such position

Would you hire an actor without an audition? You wouldn’t last long as a director if you did. But this is exactly what almost all companies who hire software developers do today. Usually the process involves talking through an applicant’s experience with them. And that’s all. Imagine asking an aspiring actor if they enjoyed theirContinue reading “You are smart but we don’t have a such position”

AT: Moving Ahead With Amazon EC2 (Creating AMI by modifying the existing one)

Login to the AWS Management Console Switch to EC2 tab Click on AMIs Select EBS image and Launch it Do not select micro or small instance at this step to avoid long running configuration Click on Instances Wait ~5 minutes and try to Get Windows Admin Password of your started instance RDP to your instanceContinue reading “AT: Moving Ahead With Amazon EC2 (Creating AMI by modifying the existing one)”

AT: Moving Ahead With Amazon EC2 (Building the testing environment)

AT – Acceptance Testing For the first try I decided to build the following very simple Windows lab: Domain Controller with DNS Application Server Here are some questions that you must have the answer before moving forward: Which amazon images (AMI) to use for the virtual machines? How to create AMI for VMs? Actually hadContinue reading “AT: Moving Ahead With Amazon EC2 (Building the testing environment)”

AT: Moving Ahead With Amazon EC2 (Prerequisites)

AT – Acceptance Testing You need to have RDP (3389) and SSH (22) access to the IP addresses from the Amazon EC2 Public IP Ranges to manage your testing environment. Ask your administrator to open this access in case you don’t have it. Don’t try to run an EC2 instance before you will have thisContinue reading “AT: Moving Ahead With Amazon EC2 (Prerequisites)”