The way I like to develop is to create specific virtual machines for my web development. The chore is to start the machine, mount the file system and then open up your IDE. All a nuisance that takes time. So, I’ve taken to writing a simple Bash script that will do the grunt work for [...]

I’m often switching between different Amazon AWS accounts. So to speed things along I’ve set up some simple scripts to easily switch between accounts while at the command line On Linux (aws_setup): #!/bin/bash export EC2_URL=https://eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com export EC2_CERT=/home/john/cert-12345678901234567890123456789012.pem export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=/home/john/pk-12345678901234567890123456789012.pem Once saved, run chmod +x aws_setup On Windows (aws_setup.cmd): SET EC2_URL=https://eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com SET EC2_CERT=C:\Users\John\cert-12345678901234567890123456789012.pem SET EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=C:\Users\John\pk-12345678901234567890123456789012.pem Save [...]

I’ve been setting up a new backup regime on a hosted server that I’m helping to maintain. One of the key issues right now is that it is there isn’t a solid provided backup regime, so I’ve spent the day playing around with different Linux backup solutions trying to get to the bottom of a [...]

I’ve just completed the first DNS and DHCP server that I’ve built for a while. This was using Ubuntu Linux 8.04. The nice thing about the process this time around as opposed to when I set one up a couple of years ago is that I was a little more au fait with the process. [...]

Webdav is a very handy protocol for writing files back and forth across the internet. I’ve never really had much call for it – but I’m all for it lately as I’m trying out Alfresco and would really love to see a better way to upload files than the basic web-bsaed uploader that is provided. [...]

I had a shocking error of judgement this morning when I accidentally deleted some of my son’s photos from his toy digital camera. They were sitting on my desktop, and I was on a cleanup… These were a casualty of my cleanup-fest and obsession with the shift key. Thinking on a Windows vein – I [...]