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Linode is a very focused and simple Virtual Private Hosting (VPS) company that delivers some very affordable cloud hosting solutions.
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I was just reading State of the Cloud over at Jack of all Clouds. They monitor the various players...
I spend a lot of time evaluating events and conferences. If I'm going to an event I deeply want to understand the event and how it speaks to me. From an industry perspective I am evaluating events for their approach and how they are managing it.
Either way I want a programmatic approach to digesting the events information...in its entirety. I want to see:
Event Overview
Sessions
Exhibitors
Speakers
Keynotes
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I am playing with different ways of monetizing my skills and knowledge. I wrote a white paper on how to setup your core email infrastructure in the Amazon cloud. I haven't spent a lot of time polishing, because I am not a writer. I have spent hundreds of hours polishing the approach.
I am offering this white p...
I was just reading on the Programmable Web blog that they were acquired by Alcatel-Lucent. Not sure what this means for their content and direction.
I have always followed prog...
GoGrid just launched a complete overhaul of their systems including web site, platform and training materials. Since they are one of the leading cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, its pretty big news:
Ov...
Amazon S3 cloud storage has changed the way I manage files on my networks. I am centralizing all file storage across my web site and applications to Amazon S3. All heavy file types:
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Cookies store information about us and our surfing habits (and they are yummy). One of the secure things about a cookie is that you can only access it within the web site to which the cookie belongs.
So if you are visiting www.kinlane.com I can put a cookie on your computer, bu...
Tired of sending people to Amazon, Rackspace, or GoGrid. You can now start your own cloud computing provider.
TelasticStack allows you to offer your own brand of cloud servers:
Turnkey Cloud Platform
Deployment Within...
The Chromium team talked about improved Google Chrome plug-in security today. Apparently we are seeing more and more security exploits targeting browser plug-ins. Since many plug-ins are ubiquitous, they pose the most significan...
I'm waiting for a server to finish installing some updates. I close my Firefox...then try to open.
Then once I open I'm given option to upgrade my Firefox, why sure.
kinlane-productions2
Once I restart I get:
Chrome embraces Flas...
Amazon published today that Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports SSL encrypted connections. You can now generate an SSL certificate for each database instance.
Here are a few of the details abo...
I was mapping some subdomains to various Amazon S3 buckets today. I decided to use the new Amazon S3 interface available in the Amazon Console, instead of S3Fox for a change.
I was setting the permissions for a new bucket and I noticed kinlane-productions2 for each bucket. For some reason this has escaped me. I see in the
When setting up your Amazon Load Balancer you need to configure ports and protocols that the load balancer will route traffic for.
Traffic can be routed from any load balancer port to any port on your Amazon EC2 instances. By default, the lo...
When harvesting thousands of Twitter profiles and evaluating them at a macro level....you really have to come up with a definition of what is a quality or influential Twitter user.
What makes a Twitter user influential:
Number of Followers
Number of Retweets
Number of Tweets
I am always willing to admit when I'm wrong. I was just railing on a site for not providing <author> information in their RSS feed. I'm used to pulling the author name using the <author> tag.
I come to learn that <author> tag is just meant for the post author's email address. <dc:creator> is truly meant for the name of the author.
I didn't know this. I had to Google it and I came up with this post explaining
I was just reading a great testimonial of moving your business to Google Apps. I use Google Apps as a starting point for all my domai...
I was reviewing a cloud backup product, CloudBerry Backup yesterday. Each time I try a new cloud storage product I can't hel...
Red Hat has been part of the cloud with services like Amazon EC2 since the beginning, because they are a leading open source platform. Not be outdone by other technology providers, Red Hat is ...
