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Ruby, Rails, and brute force
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
I’ve started teaching myself to work with Ruby on Rails. And since I’m a hands on guy I tend to get myself into odd situations and have to brute force myself out. For example last night I was dealing with trying to display a number of records from a database (there were only 3 records) [...]
Animated Gif Maker – Cool Indirect Ajax Tool
Friday, October 20th, 2006
It’s definitely neat when someone can hack together something like the animated AJAX loading GIF generator in some spare time and release it to the world. I also think that the wake that AJAX is leaving has a lot of room for tools like this one. Very spiffy. Thanks!
BWUahahahahaha
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Downloading a new browser: $0 Loosing your old standby browser: $0 Hoping you can use your machine after the next reboot: $0 Getting to be the QA engineer for one of the richest companies ever: PRICELESS
QMAIL-TOASTER remote redilivery loop problem
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
I recently switched from my old gentoo server to a new FC5 server. I opted to go with a qmail-toaster setup because, while I’m perfectly capable of manually making my desired qmail+vpopmail setup, I just didn’t want to spend the personal time doing it. So I figured I would give the toaster project a try. [...]
Series: CRM on S3 & EC2, Part2
Saturday, October 14th, 2006
So we’ve touched a bit on what to look for in your database. The comments made were by no means specific, and the requirements will vary from place to place. But the underlying principals are what are really important there. Now lets move on to something a bit more specific. Backup. There is an important [...]
Series: CRM on S3 & EC2, Part1
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
Danny de Wit wrote in with a request for collaboration on how to best use EC2 and S3 for his new Ruby On Rails CRM application. And I’m happy to oblige. At this point I dont know much about what he’s doing, so I hope to start rough and open a dialogue with him and [...]
Random Musing: Bluring the Line Between Storage and Database?
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
As food for thought… If you had a table `items` itemId char(40), itemName varchar(128), Another table `tags` tagId char(40), tagName char(40), And a third table `owners` ownerId char(40), ownerUsername char(40), ownerPassword varchar(128), It would theoretically be possible to have an S3 bucket ItemsToTags inside which you put empty objects named (ownerId)-(itemId)-(tagId). And a TagsToItems S3 [...]
How S3 Fits in Comparison to Other Storage Solutions
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
So, recently Nick G. Asked “Since you’ve worked with S3 a good bit, I’d like to get your take on using a service like S3 compared to using a local instance (or cluster) of MogileFS?” I’d like to interject here and mention that in this case “quite a bit” means I’ve used it in one [...]
Where should AmazonAWS go next?
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
We have SQS, we have S3, and we have EC2, so what next from the Amazon AWS team?. There is really only one piece of the puzzle missing… And its a piece that has a lot of people griping. I have a strong hunch that Amazon is working on the problem, because I have a [...]