http://quellhorst.org Internet Ninja Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:54:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amazon is finally setting up persistent storage for EC2 instances. This means you can more reliably host a MySQL or PostgreSQL database on EC2. Never again will I have to buy more servers for my applications!  See the forum post, the blog post and signup here. http://quellhorst.org/2008/04/13/persistent-storage-for-database-or-whatever-on-amazon-ec2/ http://dot.appspot.com/ is the first Google App I have seen to hit quota limits. Funny that Google App Engine is being billed as a way to build infinately scalable web apps, yet the quota limits are so small. You get around 500MB of storage and 10GB transfer.  Only google gets a ... http://quellhorst.org/2008/04/08/google-app-engine/ I just started playing around with Ustream.tv today. It seems interesting and maybe I'll try to do some Video Podcasting with it. http://quellhorst.org/2008/03/28/streaming-live-via-ustreamtv/ With the Euro shooting past 1.57 dollars you can forget outsourcing to India. Places like GetFriday now charge $15 per hour for offshore workers where there is a language barrier. Instead, try posting gigs on Craigslist and you may get people near minimum wage at $6.55 per hour. http://quellhorst.org/2008/03/26/the-dollar-is-the-new-peso-and-americans-are-the-new-indians/ Back in 2007 I started using git after watching linus speak about it. Currently there are 11 domains that I'm working on and I needed a quick way to create directories to store the apps, make a blank README file, and then create the remote repository. You may find this post ... http://quellhorst.org/2008/03/21/moving-to-git-scm-from-svn-and-deploying-with-capistrano/ If you ever need to get past some firewall or proxy blocking MySpace or any other site, checkout my new site ClearMyPath.com. Using this simple web app, you can bypass screens like the one below. Another plus is that your browsing also becomes anonymous to the sites you are ... http://quellhorst.org/2008/03/19/free-anonymous-proxy-server-clearmypathcom/ This lady was screaming because she was woken up. Since I had my camera out from filming some spring break stuff the night before I decided to antagonize her a bit.If you look in her hand, you will see the pepper spray she was trying to get me with. http://quellhorst.org/2008/03/18/my-crazy-neighbour-tried-to-attack-me/ What do you do when you see a screen like this? Over the weekend I made a new site called IsWebsiteDown.com that lets you see if there is a problem with a website or your connection to that site. A toolbar widget for one click checking of sites is available. ... http://quellhorst.org/2008/03/15/launch-of-iswebsitedowncom/ In WordPress the default ping list is small but can easily be changed by going to Options > Writing > Update Services. A ping lets other services like searching engines know you have added new content to a website. I ping the following popular ping services: http://api.feedster.com/ping http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/ http://ping.blo.gs/ http://ping.feedburner.com http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/ http://rpc.newsgator.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://topicexchange.com/RPC2 http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2 http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud http://ping.weblogs.se/ http://blogmatcher.com/u.php http://coreblog.org/ping/ http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php http://ping.myblog.jp http://ping.bitacoras.com http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/ http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/ http://xmlrpc.blogg.de http://1470.net/api/ping http://bblog.com/ping.php http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC If you were curious, here is ... http://quellhorst.org/2008/03/14/wordpress-ping-list/ I just switched away from Mephisto for my blog (Ruby on Rails based) to WordPress but found the default install horifically slow. I switched to WP because its popular (powering 1.8% of the internet) and its coded in PHP instead of Perl (Movable Type). The WordPress slowness can be fixed ... http://quellhorst.org/2008/03/14/wordpress-performance-is-garbage/