Kotlin Serverless Framework Logging Fix

OVERVIEW If you are interested in using the Serverless Framework with Kotlin on AWS you will likely find the aws-kotlin-jvm-gradle. For example this command will create a service: serverless create --template aws-kotlin-jvm-gradle --path your_service This template seems to work fine but I came accross an issue when attempting to debug errors in Cloudwatch. The errors will mention things like ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier which is preceded by ERROR StatusLogger No log4j2 configuration file found ...

Set a custom default gitignore file in Android Studio

Android Studio includes a .gitignore file with each new project that is created. This file is a good start but it is missing a lot of things that you may need to add as your project grows. I create a lot of Android projects to test out small pieces of the SDK in isolation. As a matter of habit the first thing I do for each project is initiate a git repository so that I can conduct my tests and revert my changes while working towards an optimal solution. ...