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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.6 Exploring Use Cases

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey with Amazon Q Developer. Each day I will share a new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly. Check out the previous tips here.

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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.5 Break down large problems

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey with Amazon Q Developer. Each day I will share a new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly. Check out the previous tips here.

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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.4 No AWS account needed

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey with Amazon Q Developer. Each day I will share a new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly. Check out the previous tips here.

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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.3 Enable Amazon Q Developer Workspace Index

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey with Amazon Q Developer. Each day I will share a new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly. Check out the previous tips here.

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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.2 IDE Layout

In the previous post I shared the importance of forming daily habits to help you discover your own flow when working with AI coding assistants like Amazon Q Developer. I also shared the first tip - make sure you keep your Amazon Q Developer plugin auto updated.

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey with Amazon Q Developer. Each day I will share a new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly.

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Daily Tips to supercharge your Amazon Q Developer experience

The importance of building muscle memory

When I talk to developers about the use of AI coding assistants, one of the key takeaways is that daily habits are one of the most effective tools in helping to build muscle memory and explore new possibilities that these tools provide.

To help folk with this, over the next few weeks I am going to share daily hints and tips that I have found useful and made my use of Amazon Q Developer more effective. If you can follow with me on this journey, I hope that some of you will start to form your own daily habits and even share your own hints and tips that worked for you.

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Using Finch to run Apache Airflow using mwaa-local-runner

I show you how you can use the Finch to run Apache Airflow using the mwaa-local-runner tool, and how you can do this for your applications too

As some of you may know, I have been creating content on Apache Airflow for a few years now. One of the open source projects that AWS has produced to make it easier for developers to get started with Apache Airflow, is mwaa-local-runner. If you have seen me at an event, it is likely you will have seen my live coding/demos, where I use this project. It is awesome!

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Writing simple Python scripts faster with Amazon Q

The future is here folks! I share my experiences using Amazon Q in the IDE, and how I was able to write more quickly and with less friction.

Some of you might be familiar with the AWS open source newsletter, a weekly publication that features a curated set of content for open source developers on AWS. I rely on a number of folk to share with me interesting open source projects that I feature, but I wanted to see if I could create an automated script that I could run on a weekly schedule that would find new open source projects for me to review.

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