Brad Zacher – Medium

Jul 5, 2018

Migrating my personal website to AWS

Recently I decided to migrate my personal webhost to AWS. It’s been running on a really cheap (but still amazing) Australian webhost for the last 6 years, but my contract expires in August I’ve decided to try something new. Very soon I’ll be moving to America, so I don’t want…

AWS

6 min read

Nov 20, 2016

Building a Build Environment for UI5 — From the Ground Up, Part 4

Preamble — Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 Now for the final part of the quintet of posts about building a build. This part is specific to the ABAP stack, though the concepts can be applied to other stacks. You’ve probably been deploying your code…

Blogging

5 min read

Oct 25, 2016

Building a Build Environment for UI5 — From the Ground Up, Part 3

Preamble — Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 By now we’ve got a complete local development environment. But there’s some more things that would be nice to add. Everything I’m going to go through here is technically optional, but I’d recommend it — strongly. …

Blogging

5 min read

Oct 11, 2016

Building a Build Environment for UI5 — From the Ground Up, Part 2

Preamble — Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 When we left our tooling we had it packaging, uglifying and sourcemapping our code into a separate folder. At each step of adding tooling, you were probably struggling to test the built files. …

Blogging

5 min read

Oct 6, 2016

Building a Build Environment for UI5 — From the Ground Up, Part 1

Preamble — Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 I was originally going to go about this just listing what I had in the build environment and how to use it — treating the environment as a black box. But I was reading some comments on…

Blogging

7 min read

Oct 4, 2016

Building a Build Environment for UI5 — Preamble

Preamble — Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 UI5 is an interesting framework to say the least. In comparison to other frameworks such as Angular 1 and 2, React and jQuery, it isn’t one of the best front end frameworks out there. …

Blogging

4 min read

Oct 4, 2016

SubMate — an Award Winning Application

Earlier this year I developed an app based off an idea from the business. The idea came through Bright Ideas (which is a system that lets anyone in the business submit an idea to improve anything in the business with a cash reward for ideas which are get implemented). The…

Blogging

4 min read

Oct 3, 2016

Setting up SSL with Cloudflare and cPanel

Today I finally got around to setting up a number of things on my personal website. This blog being the first thing, Cloudflare being the second, and finally HTTPS. …

Configuration

5 min read

Setting up SSL with Cloudflare and cPanel

Oct 10, 2015

EF and Data Transfer Objects

Data Model and DTOs When I first read about the concept of DTOs (data transfer objects), I thought they were bonkers. Why on earth would I bother to duplicate all my effort and hand write another set of nearly identical classes on top of my pre generated model? That doesn’t really become…

Development

3 min read

Oct 7, 2015

Working with EntityFramework

My first exposure to EF was when I was doing an enhancement on one of the Azure applications at work. Before I then, I had the opinion that ORMs weren’t really worth the time it takes to set them up — lots of config to get them to a working…

Data Modelling

5 min read