UPDATE: The week is over. There is a retrospective post here. I have posted Tuesdays notes here, Wednesday’s notes here, Thursday’s notes here, and Friday’s notes here. I have decided to write a simple PaaS (Platform as a Service), in order to demonstrate the capabilities of my perfectapi API framework for Node.js. I don’t [...]
Demo Page
I uploaded a new demo page for the PerfectAPI toolset today. You can find it at http://amigen.perfectapi.com/ or from the link on the main website. The demo is of my “amigen” API, which provides a way to generate Amazon AWS images (virtual machines that run in Amazon’s cloud). The demo page showcases the following PerfectAPI [...]
Self-Hosting a Small WordPress Blog or Website on Amazon EC2
Last week, as part of my effort to move my domains away from godaddy.com, I decided to move this blog. That move is complete and what you are looking at is now hosted on an Amazon EC2 “instance”. What follows is my experience and notes on the costs of doing this. The Costs First off, [...]
Introducing… amigen node.js package
This project is still very much a work-in-progress, but it is far enough along that I have published it. What it does is provide a framework for creating predictable, pre-installed machine images on Amazon EC2 (the Amazon cloud). My motivation for doing this is to assist those people that don’t necessarily want to get into [...]