Recently, my wife and I purchased a digital SLR Nikon D40 camera. We figured it was about time to start taking more quality photos, and we were tired of the point ‘n click ‘n wait-for-it cameras. The Nikon D40 is a 6.1 megapixel camera, and we bought it with the 18-50mm lens and the 50-200mm […]
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Infinovision: High Definition Video Hosting Service
Infinovision has developed a high definition video delivery system on top of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, and makes it easy to deploy a video community with a brandable video player, direct webcam recording, fast streaming video, a full-blown API for developers, and – not to mention – an infinitely scalable architecture. From the Infinovision homepage: […]
Tips on Load Balancing a Joomla Cluster with HAProxy
For the past several weeks, I have been working with Joomla in a clustered environment. We have a single load-balancer running HAProxy that sends requests to two web servers synchronized with unison. One server is a hybrid and includes both the MySQL database as well as Apache2/PHP5. The other web server is strictly Apache2/PHP5. We […]
XenServer 3.2.0: Upgrade Debian Linux from Sarge to Etch
If you are running XenServer 3.2.0, then you have a built in Debian Sarge image. If you happen to want to upgrade an instance to Debian Etch (the latest stable build as of February 1, 2008), you should follow these steps. It isn’t a simple apt-get dist-upgrade command as other websites may have you believe. […]
Dreamhost Hosting Review
Soon after I opened my own Dreamhost account, my company needed an external hosting environment for Joomla instances, and I recommended Dreamhost. I mentioned it supported unlimited domains, MySQL databases, etc., and had a large amount of space/bandwidth for any of our sub-projects within the company. They even have a One-click install for Joomla! It […]
Reorganizing Site & Projects
For the past week, I’ve gone through a phase to reorganize all of my domains/projects. I moved most of my websites to a new hosting company that offers unlimited domains, subdomains, MySQL databases, FTP accounts, shell accounts, etc., and so far it’s been great! I have also been making a shift to Joomla! for a […]
Run ASP.NET on Non-Standard Page Extensions
If you have ever wanted to convert an existing HTML-based website to an ASP.NET website, but you didn’t like the idea of losing the “page rank” of those pages, I have the solution. Recently, a friend asked for help on this subject, and since we couldn’t find sufficient information online, I am putting the steps […]
Funambol without /funambol/ds on Debian
One of the first problems I had when installing Funambol on Debian Linux 2.6 was that I did not want mobile device users to have to use the long URL associated with the default sync server settings. I wanted to change this: http://www.mydomain.com:8080/funambol/ds To this: http://sync.mydomain.com/ Here is how to do it. 1. Connect to […]
Benefit from my experience
The reason I created this blog is simple: some problems have difficult solutions but no one publishes them. It may be a “right of passage” mentality that keeps members of the more-experienced-than-you class from not posting solutions to everyday IT problems. They had to work through it. Why shouldn’t you? I think we can change […]