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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:
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,...
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 signifi...
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.
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Once I restart I get:
Chrome embraces F...
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 ab...
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...
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 do...
I was reviewing a cloud backup product, CloudBerry Backup yesterday. Each time I try a new cloud storage product I can't ...
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 ...
Google releasde Google Chrome 5.0.375.86 on Thursday which includes integrated flash player being enabled by default. Interesting positioning by Google in the Flash v HTML5 battle.
Google Ch...
Right now I use 3 main ways to discover new information and technology:
Google Reader
Google Alerts
Twitter
I have other ways I find information, but these are my 3 primary sources currently.
DARPA wants your help to change the way we approach computing. Everything today depends on computers, and to meet the relentlessly increasing demands for gr...
I am always trying to keep an eye on various cloud storage solutions. A company called Cloudberry has been offering an Amazon S...
As our home and work lives have become increasingly mobile, the demand for web-based software and information storage has exploded. But as the amount of digital content created grows exponentially, there are concerns as to whether the cloud is growing fast enough to keep up.
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JavaScript is a scripting language where semicolons as statement terminators are optional. I have never found a conversation about this, I just stumble...
I was just reading thoughts on scalable web operations, observations/thoughts on web operations collected from a fe...
