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ChartBoost, Running a Modern Startup on PHP

Jun 2

Posted by John Allen in Languages, PHP, Technology | No Comments

Running a Modern Startup on PHP In the modern world of agile startups and silicon valley, the buzz is all about Ruby, Python, and whatever the latest cool programming language or framework to come out is. Older technologies don’t get much love, and PHP especially has a bad reputation. In this post, I’m gonna go [...]

ha/doozerd – GitHub

May 6

Posted by John Allen in Database Systems, Linux, Networking, Technology | No Comments

ha/doozerd – GitHub.

Drizzle – A database for the cloud

May 6

Posted by John Allen in Database Systems, Technology | No Comments

Drizzle is a community-driven open source project that is forked from the popular MySQL database. via Drizzle – A database for the cloud.

OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software

May 4

Posted by John Allen in Linux, Networking, Open Source, Technology, Web | No Comments

Backed by Rackspace, NASA, Dell, Citrix, Cisco, Canonical and over 50 other organizations, OpenStack has grown to be a global software community of developers, technologists, researchers and corporations collaborating on a standard and massively scalable open source cloud operating system. Our mission is to enable any organization to create and offer cloud computing services running [...]

Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption

Apr 29

Posted by John Allen in Technology | No Comments

Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption.

Debian Squeeze as an OpenZV Template | Shadows of epiphany

Apr 28

Posted by John Allen in Debian, Linux, Operating Systems, Technology | No Comments

OpenVZ is used for Virtualization and is both light weight (minimal software on the host, guests have small footprints on the hard drive, and minimal use of RAM) and fast (native speed). Although I have been using Ubuntu as an OpenVZ guest, I have decided to give Debian a try. Debian has a few advantages [...]

NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome

Apr 15

Posted by John Allen in Debian, Linux, Networking, PHP, Technology, Unix, Web | No Comments

NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome.

SproutCore – Home

Apr 6

Posted by John Allen in Technology, Web | No Comments

How do we build blazingly fast, desktop-class web applications? via SproutCore – Home.

ShipIt comes to an end « Canonical Blog

Apr 6

Posted by John Allen in Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Technology | No Comments

It’s with some regret that we are announcing the end of the ShipIt Programme and the CD distributor programme. When we started ShipIt in 2005 broadband was still a marketing promise even in the most connected parts of the most developed nations. We knew that this represented a significant stumbling block to the adoption of [...]

Paravirtualization With Xen 4.0 On Debian Squeeze (AMD64) | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials

Apr 1

Posted by John Allen in Debian, Linux, Operating Systems, Technology, Unix | No Comments

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen 4.0 on a Debian Squeeze (6.0) system (AMD64) and create paravirtualized guests (don’t mix this up with fully virtualized guests, i.e. hardware virtualization (HVM)). Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called “virtual machines” or domUs, under [...]