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

Installing Sphinx on Amazon EC2 and EBS

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

Music Ownership Soon to be Obsolete

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

In the Cloud

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