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This has been my hesitation for doing any reserved instances. I expect to need larger instances in teh next 6 to 12 months, so any reserved instances I purchase today would have ex…

I've been a long time proponent of CloudFlare. Usually they just speed things up and life is good. I've had a few minor problems where they 'clean up' some JavaScript and break it …

I recently got an message from a client who has a business email blocked because of a Spamhaus SBL listing for CloudFlare. I know they have already responded to this at http://blog…

I know the developer and I just let him know that he is getting attention here ... and to get a donation link up ASAP ... He is a good guy and this has been an awful experience for…

I've been moving my domain away for months as they expire ... I have a few that are ready to expire and I waited for today to do it ... Plus I'm going to move a few other important…

I recently launched a B2B platform that required a VPN connection to each of my customers back end server running a proprietary software package on top of MSSQL. In order for my ap…

I second that

I use 3 Flip cameras to create a video podcast for my church each week. I'm not going for great quality, I'm going for good enough with a simple form factor and and ease of use. Th…

I installed the extension and blocked experts exchange first thing ... not sure if I'll even use it for any other sites ...

I've been working on an e-commerce project for a client that ended up having some major issues with database imports and the client wanted results now. Anyway, we got all of the it…

I ran into a project where I needed a cross platform GUI kit (needed Windows and Mac) and settled on wxWidgets after talking to a few developers. It's been great to work with, alth…

I've always thought that these certification programs were more of a game of trivial pursuit then a good gage of abilities.

If you are interested in this you might check out King Corn. It is a documentary about two guys who grow 1 acre of corn to see how it is done and where it goes. They also get into …

This is my typical work flow and I am currently in a lull. I haven't figured out exactly how to get out of a lull except to wait it out and work on whatever hold my interest for th…

Among the other things I'm doing right now, I actually have a book deal to write a book on yoga, that includes information on meditation and breath control along with the standard …

I have done quite a bit of work in Erlang over the past 4 or so years. I even wrote an anti-spam engine hat was heavy on parsing. The best thing Erlang has going in the parsing are…

I personally believe that this is where the data you collect about a persons voting should be used to recommend articles for them specifically. Then you can go to the main page to …

The things you would end up learning about Erlang while writing a web server aren't as much about processes but more about pattern matching. Most people focus on Erlang as an easy …

A friend of mine is working on a comet server in Erlang at http://code.google.com/p/erlycomet/

For those of us who program in Erlang calling it 'weird' is a compliment :-) I think it's like complaining about parenthesis to a Lisper ... Both Lisp and Erlang make you think is …

LOL ... He hit most of my points except for the insane complexity of the FETCH and SEARCH commands. Each of these commands could be broken down into smaller commands that could be …

At the moment I am currently writing an IMAP server in Erlang (google Erlang IMAP and you'll find me pretty fast) and the IMAP protocol is crazy complicated. Although after you get…

Curently writting my own in Erlang ... again ...