Cloud Systems and Chef

Sunday 29 August 2010 at 09:31 am I've been using Opscode's Chef to spin up new instances of servers, both on our internal XenServer cloud and at Rackspace. With a little judicious planning and some attention to detail, the recipes themselves can be used on either of the two sites. (more)

Internal Clouds

Saturday 03 July 2010 at 10:35 am

Creating a private cloud for internal use can be challenging. The documentation provided by the vendor can range from terse to absent, and the chances of a mistake are greatly increased as you scale up the number of actual servers. 

Why aren't there any books on this?

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PHP Programming

Sunday 15 February 2009 at 8:52 pm How do I create thumbnail images? Find out here.

Dude! They're stealing from my website!

Sunday 15 February 2009 at 01:42 am I noticed that there were a number of hits against Sherry's website that didn't appear to go through the html for that page. Sherry has a number of music pages, where she makes an image that shows how she feels about a song, and a low quality mp3 of the song to give the atmosphere. She recommends that anyone interested in the songs should purchase a copy, and the low fidelity of the MP3's prevent anyone from being too interested in them. Or so we thought...
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How to manage geeks

Wednesday 11 February 2009 at 9:16 pm I've always known that there was a basic disconnect between management and techies, here's an article that spells that out. (more)

ASP Programming

Friday 06 February 2009 at 04:58 am I'm doing a little work in ASP, just for fun, and I'm starting to look for basic information on usage and programming. I'll gather some of the better resources here to save myself some time in the future.



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Securing a name based apache server

Wednesday 04 February 2009 at 1:13 pm The Apache server is an extremely capable system, and I've been using it to serve up several web sites. I've been using the name based Virtual Hosting mechanism, which is quite simple and effective. But adding an https secure set of pages adds a whole new set of problems.




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Job Fairs

Tuesday 03 February 2009 at 8:09 pm

I was notified about a Dice Job Fair, the Tech, Engineering and Security Clearance Career Fair in Atlanta the other day. I thought I might go, as I could really use a job. (more)

Added a Weblog

Monday 03 September 2007 at 8:01 pm

I've decided that I want to keep notes on the various problems as I run into them, and perhaps save somebody some steps. Today, I'm trying to set up a password protected subdirectory on my LAMPP server, and I figure that I'm not the only person to have had this problem. So, if I can save someone a few searches, or prevent them from tripping over the same issues that I have, this might be worthwhile.

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