Posts Tagged ‘ amazon ’

Amazon EC2, HPC Edition

2010/07/14
By Dylan Stamat
Amazon EC2, HPC Edition

We have been proponents of Amazon’s EC2 service from  the very beginning and – warning: shameless self-promotion – have built some pretty impressive applications on top of it. Check out the Sweety High social networking site, for example. No...
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Adding an Amazon S3 filestore to AttachmentSaver

2010/04/08
By Ricky Taing
Adding an Amazon S3 filestore to AttachmentSaver

I recently had to take preexisting code and modify it so it would save its data on S3.  The plugin used for saving the data was AttachmentSaver, which comes with filestores for the local file system and for in-database storage.  Trying to touch the least amount of the existing codebase, I decided to add...
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Blocking Amazon advertisements

2010/03/26
By Ricky Taing
Blocking Amazon advertisements

Dealing with advertisements is a part of life, from watching TV to running free apps on the iPhone.  It’s made Google the envy of all tech companies.  Fortunately for those who want to minimize exposure to them, there are some options such as DVR for the TV and Adblock Plus for Firefox.  I haven’t...
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Double Shot #493

2009/07/10
By Mike Gunderloy
Double Shot #493

There are days I need to remind myself that I’m happier on the open source side of the fence.Infomaki – Open source usability testing tool written in Rails, from the NY Public Library. (via Konigi) Ruby Code Quality and Metric_Fu – Some notes on getting the current metric_fu to run properly. Why I use Safari for...
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