Category: Coldfusion, FarCry, Linux, Tinkering | 2 Comments
I use Amazon’s S3 quite a bit and I really like it. I’ve also been very curious about using Amazon’s EC2 - their cloud computing product.
If you’ve never heard of it, what EC2 allows you to do is bring up images of computers into a big network of processing power and bandwidth. It’s like you have a whole box under your control, but … there is no box. It’s like VMWare for servers. The billing for these instances is by the minute hour - around $0.10 for Linux and $0.12 for windows - so you can bring up test boxes only when you want them, or throw a bit of extra power at a problem.
Anyway, it all sounds fun, but where does one start? I decided to sit down last weekend and start figuring it out. My ultimate goal with this, by the way, is to bring up an EC2 instance, put Railo 3 on it, install FarCry, and then move my blog over to FarCry.
Here are a few movies about what I’ve found so far. These are just on how to bring up an EC2 instance, and I’ll be making some more as I progress.
(Since youtube wont let me upload a 12 minute video…)
Category: Chinese, iPhone | Leave a Comment
I saw an interesting article on digg today that said iPhones are outselling Blackberries. Since it seems lots of people are carrying these things around now, I figured I would put up a feed of my favourite wallpapers.
Not that I am a photographer by any stretch of the imagination, but since it was about 6 clicks in iPhoto to publish the feed, I figured why not. You can nab them here - Chinese Tea is currently my favourite.
If you are on the hunt for lots of wallpaper choices, flickr has an iPhone wallpaper feed too.