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Yesterday I had my car into the dealer for a service. In walks an older gentleman and we spark up a conversation. Mind you, I'm also getting on in years so I usually just start talking out the side of my neck and hope for the best. He was nearly 90. He was a dyed in the wool, bonafide, card carrying member of Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation. You'll know why if you read on.

Ok, so Solspace writes code. Code does not get written without caffeine. And unless you are a circus animal, you get your caffeine from the only respectable source on the planet, coffee beans. Your local boutique coffee house is trying to convince you that you need to buy a $4.50 cold brew every afternoon so that your JS variables don't degrade into BS variables. But they are full of it. Lemme school you.

Building, maintaining and most importantly, monitoring a Node JS application as a hub for your organization's API integrations.

I just finished a few hours of fighting with the NetSuite API, SuiteTalk, on attaching files to contact records. Google could find nothing of use to help me. So here's a blog post that Google can show to the next poor soul who is about to go through what I just did.

You just took on a new client. They have a lot of work for you to do. During the kick-off call they ask you if you are going to be working on their live site. You tell them, "Naw, there's no need for that. We'll just spin up a quick Amazon EC2 instance and do our development over there. That way we don't break anything on your production site." Now you sound like a pro; confident, capable, experienced and relaxed. Read on for a tutorial on how to get Craft CMS running up on AWS.

I found an Easter Egg in the new ExpressionEngine 3 service architecture that, although undocumented, is quite a useful resource for add-on developers and by extension designers and clients as well. It's the CP/Filter service.

ExpressionEngine 3 came out a couple of weeks ago. I'm really enjoying working with it as we update our addons. There is a new part of the architecture that EllisLab is calling Services. We'll get technical and talk about a highlight in this blog post.

Solspace has been doing API integration projects on websites and web applications for more than a decade. One thing we know for certain is that you don't always have to integrate API's. Sometimes it's perfectly sufficient to hire someone to do some simple data entry for you and save all the coding, QA and revision time.