I’ve recently taken on the task of building and now administering a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 command line tools provide all of the basic functionality you’ll need as it relates to creating new instances, EBS volumes, snapshots, and nearly everything you would ever need to do with all of the assets. [...]
I have to admit that I’m not usually one to be excited about the so-called innovation that comes out of many of these larger internet companies. In fact – very few of the so-called “enhancements” really impress me. But I’ll give props to Twitter. The road-map they’ve put together is exciting [...]
Repeat after me: I must backup my LAMP applications!! If you’re like me – you’ve hacked your way through several iterations of backup scripts over the years. I can’t even imagine how screwed I’d be if my server went down without a backup. I have thousands of hours worth of code and [...]
Go figure. I found this cool image analysis tool that attempts to see what celebrities you might resemble…
OK, so I’m making my first real contribution to the WordPress community. I’m a freak for college football; I have been for as long as I can remember. A few years ago, I developed a widget in Yahoo Widgets (formally Konfabulator). It’s called liveSchedule, and it allows users to display their favorite [...]
Hi everyone. Welcome to techkismet.com. What’s it all about? Who am I? You’ll find these things out on the pages of this site. But here is a sneak-peak; I hope to make this site a combination of an online professional and personal diary and offer my own [...]
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