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Like a few other developers at PMG, I had the pleasure of attending Amazon’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this year. It was not only my first time attending re:Invent, but also my first time at a major tech conference. It was an incredible experience with hours of interactive learning the likes of which will be difficult […]
As a fresh college grad, your first full-time job can be intimidating. How am I going to catch up to all these smart people? When will I know as much as them? What is digital advertising… Fortunately, I get to work with incredible people who have helped me figure out all these questions and bridge […]
Adwords scripts can be a powerful platform for modifying your Adwords data, but you are limited to Google Services such as Google Spreadsheets and Google Analytics. What if you wanted to control your Adwords campaigns outside of the Google universe? Well, there is an app for that. Introducing Amazon Web Service’s Lambda functions. Using AWS […]
A few weeks post-re:Invent the hours of sessions and conversation have had a chance to sink in. Two years ago my takeaways from re:Invent were about microservers and stateless applications being the future. In a way a lot of the focus, two years later, is still on stateless microservices. Today, however, the future seems to […]
At 4:59 PM on February 12, 2015, Kanye West premiered “Wolves”, a track featuring Vic Mensa and Sia, at Yeezy Season 1. Yet when the track finally appeared on The Life of Pablo, Mensa and Sia had been excised from the track, instead being replaced by vocals from Frank Ocean. Several days after the release of TLOP, West proclaimed […]
On November 17, Mozilla announced the launch of a new browser for iOS, Firefox Focus — a free, mobile browser that privacy browsing front and center. Within seconds of downloading and launching, it’s easy to see Firefox Focus’ impact on web privacy. By default, Firefox Focus blocks all ad tracking software, all web-analytics software, and even […]
This past week, I had the amazing opportunity to attend the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. For those that don’t know, it is the premier conference for cloud computing and deals with the entire AWS ecosystem. Keynotes are presented by the CEO, Andy Jassy, and CTO, Werner Vogels. These speakers obviously have invaluable knowledge […]
Quick question: What Is Natural Language Processing? I’ll save you some time Googling it: In layman’s terms, it is the processing of real life human communication by computers. It often comes in the form of a human generated text string that is then processed by a computer, and then analyzed in some way. This analysis generally holds the intention […]
Understand how to maximize complicated ad tech investments by utilizing agency partners specializing in “gap technology.”
I’m not a big fan of the typical app.php and app_dev.php setup in the Symfony Standard Edition. While it’s not a big deal if the app_dev.php file gets deployed, it shouldn’t be done anyway. It’s too risky and complicates the deploy process a bit. The alternative: environment variables that default to production mode. Create a […]