Bloggitation

• Moving to Rails 2.0
  (tags: ruby rails programming)
• HOWTO: Install and Boot OS X On a Flash Drive
  (tags: mac mac-mini sysadmin backup)
• scaling drupal
  an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites
  (tags: apache web hosting cluster 247up sysadmin php mysql)
• Haskell hacking
  a journal of Haskell programming
  (tags: haskell programming blog)
• boot xp from USB HD (no internal drive partitioning)
  (tags: windows livecd backup sysadmin)

• Scalable Media Hosting with Amazon S3
  (tags: amazon s3 hosting web web2.0 sysadmin 247up cluster backup blog)
• Updating dynamic DNS on Amazon EC2
  (tags: amazon ec2 dns ruby hosting)

• intraducibles: Mercurial on Dreamhost
  (tags: mercurial scm hosting)
• Ubuntu Gutsy - generating a self signed SSL certificate
  (tags: linux ubuntu security web sysadmin)
• Eventlet
  a networking library written in Python. It achieves high scalability by using non-blocking io while at the same time retaining high programmer usability by using coroutines to make the non-blocking io operations appear blocking at the source code level.
  (tags: python web programming)
• Installation on MacMini (ppc) - openSUSE
  (tags: linux mac-mini)

• Statistical Data Mining Tutorials
  (tags: ai science tutorial)
• Ubuntu Gutsy on an Asus Eee pc.
  (tags: linux ubuntu hardware)
• Merb-related links
  (tags: ruby merb programming web)
• Ubuntu Customization Guide v2 « Tux Enclave.
  (tags: linux ubuntu tuning fun)
• Some VMware images
  (tags: linux ubuntu debian vmware emulator sysadmin)
• libev
  A full-featured and high-performance (see benchmark) event loop that is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs.
  (tags: c linux programming)
• The top 10 “IT” (Computer related) disasters of all time
  (tags: society web)
• VMWare Player Image Creation
  (tags: linux vmware emulator sysadmin)

• Cap deploy via SCP
  (tags: ruby capistrano sysadmin)

• Ye Newbyes Gyde to Routing in Merb
  (tags: ruby merb programming)
• Extending the Erlang shell (part 1)
  (tags: erlang programming)
• commit-patch
  commit patches to CVS, Darcs or Mercurial repositories
  (tags: scm mercurial darcs programming)
• Writing Web Applications in Factor
  (tags: web programming factor)
• Don’t Get Caught with Your Instance Down
  This article will focus specifically on monitoring Amazon EC2 virtual machines, and logging alerts when errors occur.
  (tags: amazon ec2 ruby rails programming)
• Speedtest - how fast are you?
  (tags: web fun society)
• jRails - jQuery on Rails
  a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype/script.aculo.us on Rails. Using jRails, you can get all of the same default Rails helpers for javascript functionality using the lighter jQuery library.
  (tags: ruby rails ajax javascript web programming web2.0)

• Experimenting with the erlang SSH support, or remote ‘tail’ with SSH…
  (tags: erlang sysadmin security vpn)
• Starbox - Rating stars for prototype
  (tags: web2.0 ajax javascript programming web design css)
• Free online web template generator
  (tags: web design web2.0 programming blog)
• WeoCEO
  Yet another EC2 load balancing service deal.
  (tags: amazon ec2 cluster web web2.0 sysadmin s3 hosting)

If you
’ve switched to Ubuntu (as I have) or any other Linux distribution, you may consider the following free (and in most cases open-source) games, as they’ve been favorites of mine for some time now.

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• Ubuntu JeOS
  Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced “Juice”) is an efficient variant of the popular desktop and server operating system, configured specifically for virtual appliances.
  (tags: linux ubuntu xen sysadmin 247up)
• 11 Free Online Image Editing Tools
  (tags: web design multimedia web2.0)
• Pagination Gallery: Examples And Good Practices
  (tags: web design css)

[Thanks to Phoronix] The new version of Ubuntu 7.10 JeOS (pronounced “Juice”) is ready for download! It’s been studied expressly for virtual machines (Just Enough Operating System, get it?) and it’s just 150MB (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/jeos/releases/gutsy/release/). Now go nuts and create applications for specific needs!

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