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Installing Cent OS 5.5 on EC2 with the Cent OS 5.5 Kernel
Amazon recently introduced the ability to boot a custom kernel using pv-grub on EC2. This opens the door for all kinds of interesting ideas that I've been thinking about for a while, like seeing if I can boot right into a web server and skip all that extra junk that comes with Linux distributions, but [...]
Upgrade to Fedora 13 from Fedora 12
After a week delay Fedora 13 has been released and it is time to upgrade of course. As always there are a decent number of features in this release but here are a few that stand out to me: boot.fedoraproject.org – A small bootable image to start the install from. IntelliJ IDEA – IntelliJ IDEA [...]
Faceted Search With Sphinx
I decided to use the Sphinx search engine for the GeeQe iPhone app I build last year because it was fast and had a very small memory footprint. Recently I wanted to experiment with a search interface that had facets and wondered if I would need to move away from Sphinx to something like Solr. [...]
iPad Streaming Video and More
I've updated the configuration examples in the open source segmenter project to reflect Apple's recommended stream bitrates for iPad video streaming, added a few fixes and a few new features. If you are interested in streaming video on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch and haven't done so yet you it may help to start [...]
Using Cursors with PHP MySQLi and Multiple Prepared Statements
After my post on using PHP MySQLi and multiple prepared statements at the same time someone commented that using cursors could do the same thing. With that comment I dug some more and found that modifying the cursor type that is used under the covers will indeed let you execute multiple prepared statements concurrently on [...]
Spring 3 File Upload Example
I had the opportunity to figure out how to do file uploads using Spring 3 the other day and I couldn't find anything that pulled it all together. What follows is a complete example of how to do MVC based file uploads with Spring 3.
Parsing the SXSW Twitter Stream for Fun
Over the weekend I decided to toss together a simple twitter stream monitoring app that would capture SXSW tweets. I wanted to build on some of what I learned while hacking together the stuff for code2009 and it was also an excuse to play with node.js and a few other things. I figured I would [...]
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