A quick tutorial on using Imagemagick to remove a background colour from images. The image file format needs to support transparency e.g. PNG. NOTE: JPG doesnt support transparency, so it would be necessary to convert the file. There is also this method Imagemagick transparency I find the option below to be a bit …

Introduction When working with Google Cloud Storage as a backend, you will probably need to amend the CORS setting at some point. CORS stands for Cross Origin Resource Sharing and is invoked from your browser as a security access feature. Typically the HTTP-header will indicate which origin is permitted to be accessed. …

Introduction If you are using a Google Cloud Storage bucket for application development you may want to use this handy tip. When working with data, you can turn off the cache-control option. If you want to test things like temporary JSON or image files, this setting is super useful. Amend the bucket metadata Google …

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer Certification (Feb 2023) An overview of taking the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer Exam. Blog Post Rich Rose Professional Cloud Developer Feb 2023 Training Material The material I used to get ready for the exam. Source Type Description Rating Google Cloud Docs …

Professional Cloud Architect Certification (Feb 2023) An overview of taking the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Exam. Blog Post Rich Rose Professional Cloud Architect Exam Feb 2023 Training Material Source Type Description Rating ACloudGuru formally Linux Academy Course Exam specific content, good …

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification (Jan 2023) An overview of taking the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam. Blog Post Rich Rose Professional Cloud Data Engineer Jan 2023 Training Material The material I used to get ready for the exam. Source Type Description Rating ACloudGuru Course …

2023 Aspirational Certifications Overview So currently I have a number of Certifications that will need to be renewed in 2023. Rather than procrastinate about which to take I actually put some thought into this time around. In the new year, I will begin the preparation for my 2023 year of study. I typically take four …

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification Overview If you work with Google Cloud then you really should be looking at taking the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification. You will join an exclusive group of fellow professionals. The exciting part is you will learn a valuable …

"PDFtk - The PDF Toolkit. PDFtk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. It comes in three flavors: PDFtk Free, PDFtk Pro, and our original command-line tool PDFtk Server." In a prior blog post, the PDFTK utility was installed. Working with PDF can often produce multiple files that …

Tmux is a terminal multiplexer, which is a fancy way of saying it give you the ability to run multi terminals. Google Cloud Cloudshell uses the default Tmux configuration which makes me not want to use it. However help is at hand. You can update the settings and this post covers how to make those changes. Cloudshell is …