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Having started out on a Joyent appliance, migrating to Linode, and, finally, to Amazon with a Bitnami stack, we noticed the common pain of manually configuring each of these environments. Bitnami caused us an even bigger headache by being very difficult to update (apt-get doesn’t update the bitnami wrapped AMP stack). We decided to get [...]

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The cool thing about doing geeky things like this is the ability to share the howto with other folks who can actually get just as excited. Amazon’s announcement of a 12 month free usage tier, plus the fact that this blog doesn’t run on sugar plums and candy canes, put us in the short list [...]

“We’d like to offer a poll on our site. How long do you think it would take to create a polling tool?” A good question, and, like any good developer, I thought about how long it would take. A few days for the frontend screens design. A couple days to create the backend “data entry” [...]