A blog on developing, deploying and maintaining web applications at Firmhouse
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Everyday Feed started as a pet project about a week ago. I already scratched my own itch with building a service that actually let’s me read my feeds instead of skipping them. Also, this project is my way of researching and testing all the hints and tips I learned from Rework, Getting Real and Crush [...]
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A little longer than two weeks ago, I talked about why the newspaper is going to rock, but that it’s not going to rock in it’s current form and that it’s not going to be owned by the big news companies. In that post, my conclusion was that iPad/tablet-like devices are going to be the [...]
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is great and we use it as our #1 hosting infrastructure at Firmhouse. We still have some “old” traditional virtual servers laying around on some (also great) servers but we are slowly moving away from them to be totally scalable in a cloud environment. There are however, one few problems with [...]
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I just got back from the holidays. Ski-ing was great btw. I actually know my parallels know. It was a fun week and I’m going back as soon as I can. But more important, this is wat’s on the schedule the following weeks (and maybe some 2010 resolutions): Get all client projects up and running [...]
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Last week, Amazon Web Services released a great killer new feature in their virtual computing cloud EC2. You can now launch AWS instances (virtual servers) from an EBS (Elastic Block Storage). An Elastic Block Storage is like a USB hard drive you can plug in and out of your virtual server to expand space or [...]
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