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You can certainly use your AWS root account’s keys to sync content up to your S3 backed website. It will work just fine and it may be enough in cases where you are a really small organization. It does however cause issues when the credentials need to...
Read More... Sometimes you just need to make a small change. What can go wrong right? Well…

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Read More... It took a few months, but I finally received the Dell Precision M3800 that I ordered as a work laptop. It was certainly worth the wait though. It is fast and sleek and is turning out to be a great alternative to the current batch of Macbook Pros.
My...
Read More... A developer pulls a copy of the staging database and runs a migration to make sure that it will work against the existing data and structure.
A developer writes specs around a new feature that he is building.
Both acts imply testing. One is explicit...
Read More... It’s not a surprise that governments in general want to monitor what happens on the Internet. I always took the stance that anything that goes over unproctected and unencrypted channel was basically public. Private things need to be encrypted. This is...
Read More... - Idempotent
- An idempotent operation is one where the result of the operation is the same when it is repeated with the same input parameter.
One of the design goals of my middleman-s3_gem gem is to only push content that has been updated to an S3...
Read More... I pushed a new release of middleman-s3_sync to Rubygems this morning. This build resolves an issue where the sync crashed when the bucket contained objects named like directories.
Read More... Posterous is about to shut down access to the web site. They do provide a facility to backup your space’s content. It works. You end up with a zip file with your whole content and what appears to be a Wordpress export file. It wasn’t quite ready to import...
Read More... There are many options available for blog posting. There are SaaS solutions where the blogging infrastructure is managed for you. There are a few self-hosted solution where you (or your organization) is managing the infrastructure of your blog. Either...
Read More... I have left my blog dormant for about 3 years now. There aren’t good reasons or excuses to have done so. I just focussed my energies on other activities and outlets (mainly Twitter and Facebook.
The upcoming demise of Posterous made me rethink how I...
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