I lived in Atlanta, Georgia for 12 years, and in all that time I never ventured north toward the mountains, despite being able to see them from my condo in
Exploring Dog-Friendly Vineyards Near Prince Frederick, Maryland
My Cork Hound co-founder Jeremy, recently had friends in town for the weekend and we decided to spend some of the time exploring a dog-friendly vineyard in southern Maryland. So,
Changes to our Web and Mobile User Interfaces
You may have noticed a recent change that we made to our search results having to do with Ratings. If you are curious as to why, this blog is for
Migrating from Self-Managed Docker to ECS - EC2 Instances
I recently migrated our four containerized microservices from self managed Docker to AWS ECS. We are adding a lot more vineyards (the addition of California more than doubles the number
Virginia to Welcome Dogs (Back) into Tasting Rooms this Summer
Just this past January the Virginia state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill to amend Virginia’s Law to officially allow dogs inside vineyard/winery tasting rooms (and breweries). The governor,
Design and Test Considerations for an AWS Serverless Architecture
This post is a companion blog to a recent post on Building a Hybrid Mobile Application with Adobe Phonegap that I published in January. We recently released our Mobile Application
Building a Hybrid Mobile Application with Adobe Phonegap
This blog has been a long time coming, as I've been working on the Cork Hounds iOS Mobile Application for the better part of 2017. I decided to use Phonegap
Exploring Dog-Friendly Vineyards Along Virginia and Maryland’s Eastern Shore
On a windy fall weekend, Cork Hound cofounder, Jeremy, our pups, Greta and Bentley and I, headed out from the D.C. metro area to visit Cape Charles, Virginia. Cape
Exploring Dog-Friendly Vineyards Along the I-81 Corridor of Virginia
For the past three summers, my girlfriends and I have enjoyed a weekend trip to the mountains of southern Virginia to a rustic retreat known as Mountain Lake Lodge. The
Coding an Amazon Alexa Skill in Java Using Dialog Directives
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to look into writing an Amazon Alexa Skill using the Java SDK. Alexa was an early entrant into the voice service market, allowing
Geospatial Queries on AWS DynamoDB
I'm currently using Postgres/PostGIS for all our Geospatial queries. This works well with our microservices architecture. However, as I build out the backend for our Mobile app architecture using
Exploring Dog-Friendly Vineyards Near Charlottesville, Virginia
Hello Cork Hounders! My co-founder, Jeremy and I recently took a road trip to Charlottesville, VA with our dachshunds Bentley and Greta. Naturally, we used corkhounds.com to discover some
Traveling With Your Dog: 14 Tips For A Fun Trip
Want to hit the open road with your pup by your side? Nothing can be more fun than going on an adventure with your loyal companion (using Corkhounds.com as
Exploring Dog-Friendly Vineyards Near Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Mixed among rolling hills, Amish farms, Pennsylvania Dutch architecture and rural life, is Lancaster PA’s wineries. Pennsylvania may not be an obvious place for great wines but you’ll
Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS in AWS
I wanted an easy way in AWS (e.g. using an Elastic Load Balancer) to rewrite/redirect a URL in Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) but had to find an alternate