I signed up last night!
Software Development
Just spent the last two hours exploring DevOps with OpsCode and Chef. Nearly got my EC2 instance bootstrapped!
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to chsh zsh on my Mac. Hello again zsh. It’s been too long old buddy!
I really wish I still had that .zshrc file I spent forever optimizing in college.
If you are thinking “Oh, that is what he did in college! Play with his .zshrc!” That’s fair.
Required installing many dependencies but I now have chef and knife gems installed to start playing with deployments.
Burstable performance instances — Considering AWS EC2 Micro instances? Read this doc to understand the compute profile.
Planning out deploying thingelstad.com on Amazon EC2 with autoscaling and independent SQL/NFS server.
As odd as this seems at first, Amazon EC2’s new “micro” instance is a game changer. Ridiculously cheap for the right task.
A t1.micro reserved instance comes in at $54/year!
If your curious, here is Amazon’s Micro announcement.
First impression of Google Streaming Search: hate it. Distracting, clunky. It’s like someone not allowing me to finish a sentence.
Not a fan of the new visual elements in iTunes 10. Reminds me of the grayscale of NeXT.
Got a great rundown from OpsCode on Chef and managing cloud instances on EC2. Very impressive!