Category: Technology

  • Manufacturing A Product: What Are Your Options

    Manufacturing A Product: What Are Your Options

    There are several ways to manufacture a product. Each method can come with its own pros and cons. If you’ve come up with an idea for a product and you are unsure how to manufacture it, weigh up these three options.  Hand-craft it You may decide to manufacture your product by hand. This can prevent…

  • What’s Wrong With Your Business Office?

    What’s Wrong With Your Business Office?

    When you own a business, it’s important that your employees have a safe, and secure place for them to work. However, it is much more than that because they need somewhere comfortable as well. It’s not as though they can work through any conditions and still produce the results that you want from them, it…

  • Data project: I became an environmental data collector

    Data project: I became an environmental data collector

    At the beginning of the Corona epidemic, I wrote an article about a personal data project I had worked on: The air I breathe how polluted is it?. After that project, I became an environmental data collector by purchasing a wearable, portable indoor-outdoor air quality monitor. My interest in air quality is about the fact that…

  • 6 Ways an IT Service Provider Help Your Small Business

    6 Ways an IT Service Provider Help Your Small Business

    Productivity is essential in any small business and there are many different IT issues that can affect productivity, however, the one way to overcome all of these issues is to hire a managed IT services provider to look after your IT systems. 

  • Types of Cloud Deployment Models and How They Benefit Businesses

    Types of Cloud Deployment Models and How They Benefit Businesses

    The fast development of the internet brought new ways in which businesses are conducted. What was unimaginable only a few years ago, today is the norm. Businesses around the globe have seen new opportunities and decided to grab them. One such opportunity is cloud computing. 

  • Should You Move Your Business To The Cloud?

    Should You Move Your Business To The Cloud?

    In the realm of technology, the cloud is a ubiquitous presence, yet it often mystifies individuals who are not well-versed in its intricacies. It’s perfectly understandable if you find yourself pondering what the cloud truly represents. Contrary to common misconceptions, the cloud is not a singular monolithic entity. Instead, it comprises a multitude of distinct…

  • What is in your family tree with a DNA match

    What is in your family tree with a DNA match

    Data comes in various forms and shapes, in my personal life I have been very interested in Genome data and creating my family tree. When I was born the family tree was handed down word of mouth, you only had 3 to 4 generations in your family tree.

  • Maritime noon report with Google Cloud Dataprep

    Maritime noon report with Google Cloud Dataprep

    I recently worked on an exciting project, the use case for the project was to make the maritime noon report data available in Google BigQuery, which sounds simple enough. However, there were a lot of requirements, from collecting application data from the Greenpeace fleet in different formats leveraging Cloud Functions and API calls, landing the…

  • Securing HTTP trigger in Google Cloud Functions

    Securing HTTP trigger in Google Cloud Functions

    In this how-to article, I’m going to show how you can secure your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Functions HTTP trigger, it has not been that straightforward to secure HTTP trigger in Cloud Functions in the past HTTP triggers in GCP were publicly available. While this might be useful in a lot of scenarios, it’s also…

  • Pagination with Angular and Firestore

    Pagination with Angular and Firestore

    I have created a Cloud Function that uses the NewsAPI to read the latest news and store the news in a Firestore collection. To read the news links I created an Angular app to read the news. Firestore does not have pagination support so I had to build it myself. This post is all about how…