This article is largely for my own notes so I can remember what I did. I am just starting to get my feet wet in the EC2 world. I am a programmer by trade, but have been forced by necessity into being a system engineer also, but I'm absolutley not... Continue Reading
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Okay, day two of learning EC2 and attempting to get a Sphinx Full Text Search server up and running on my Ubuntu EC2 instance and data on the EBS volume.
As far as AMIs the web site Alestic has been a big help, but today I changed to the official... Continue Reading
For a long time I have been reading the various tech blogs (especially Tech Crunch) raving about the need for DRM-free music and also basically saying that music subscription services are the stupidest thing in the world. They contend why would... Continue Reading
I was amazed how much attention my last blog post about the speed tests I had done after after enabling CloudFront on my S3 static content. The post was re-tweeted over and over on Twitter and today I even saw follow-ups of people saying they were... Continue Reading
Several years ago, back when I was a budding junior web developer back at MindComet--better known as the evil empire--I was part of a fantastic (if under-appreciated and under-paid) development team that included at the time folks like Jerry Jackson... Continue Reading
So I'm really interested in trying to get working with Amazon's S3 this summer. I'm hoping I have time to do that. I have been worried about the additional responsibility of really opening up the floodgates for our huge user base to start... Continue Reading