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Setting up on EC2
Thanks to my friend Dustin, and his EC2 demo using Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2 I got an EC2 image setup. With other references Link 1 ,Link 2 ,Link 3 I was also able to create my own AMI.
Read moreGiving control of your data to the cloud
I’ve been doing some research and evaluation of more cloud computing. Specifically my focus has been on data store, and considering how to augment an existing operation using a popular database such as MySQL .
Read moreYour site unavailable page
When your site is down what do people see? If overloaded to you respond well or not? For much larger organizations with the infrastructure and DNS management this should be part of your DR strategy.
Read moreWhat determines authoritative information
I had need to visit a particular store in New York on Sunday on referral by a friend. I knew they had two locations. Like all tech savvy people I googled sports authority new york .
Read moreDon’t use HostMonster
Following a 2-4 day outage from my hosting provider of my dedicated server, I decided to move non critical websites to shared hosting. I have one with 1&1 but I created a second account to share load and act as a backup with www.
Read moreHandling Disaster 101
I’ve had to accept the “practice what you preach” pill recently due to a disaster at my hosting provider. See Learning from a Disaster . While it was my own personal site on a dedicated server in question and not a business generating review I found that my MySQL Backup Strategy was incomplete ( It is also based on code 4 years old).
Read moreLearning from a Disaster
As Farhan has already pointed out to us, Disaster is Inevitable – Must shutdown generators . My primary hosting provider The Planet had a serious meltdown, 9,000 servers unavailable, DNS and administration application .
Read moreWorking with Google App Engine
Yesterday I took a more serious look at Google App Engine , I got a developer account some weeks ago. After going though the getting started demo some time ago, I chose an idea for a FaceBook Application and started in true eXtreme Programming (XP) style (i.
Read moreScreen recorder software for Mac
I’ve been researching what software exists for a Mac to produce video like screen recording and audio. Multiple people have recommended Camtasia however this is Windows only. I today with some research came across Jing Project which at first test seems perfect, easy to install, use and even deploy to an integrated Screencast .
Read moreBeyond Blogs
I was reading today in a printed magazine Business Week the article Beyond Blogs . It’s unusual these days to actually read on paper what we can find on our online world.
Read moreCorruption using MySQL AES_[EN|DE]NCRYPT functions
I was contacted this week by a previous client regarding a failure of processing data. This was a Contact, Financial and Media Management system I developed for a non-for-profit organization a LAMJ stack, and I’ve had to do nothing since deployment in the past 3 years, no bug fixes, no feature enhancements.
Read moreUpdated Website and Professional Blog
For those that have my existing blog bookmarked, or use any RSS/Atom feeds please update your information now. My new blog can be found at http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ RSS 2 is http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/feed/rss2 , Atom is http://ronaldbradford.
Read moreEverything open source from Sun
In the recent interview Missed Twitter Questions from Jonathan Schwartz Interview at Web 2.0 Expo Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is quoted as saying “Everything Sun delivers will be freely available, via a free and open license (either GPL, LGPL or Mozilla/CDDL), to the community.
Read moreMigrating my blog & updating WordPress
I’m migrating my existing WordPress run blog site at blog.arabx.com.au to a my new site ronaldbradford.com (which is not yet publically available) As part of this process I’ll be doing a number of upgrades/changes including:
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