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BotchagalupeMarks for October 4th – 17:25
By John | October 5, 2009
These are my links for October 4th from 17:25 to 17:30:
- PHP on the Microsoft Azure Platform | Cloudiquity – PHP is now officially supported as a language for developing applications that can run on Windows Azure. This makes a lot of sense from Microsoft’s viewpoint as the number of PHP developers that use Windows environments for PHP is not insignificant. Microsoft have now made it possible to run PHP applications on Microsoft Azure servers and also take advantage of the Azure storage services (Table and Blob Storage).
- 10 Mechanical Turk Tests You Should Run Right Now – Use Mechanical Turk for your business. USE IT NOW. You can never spend too much money on Mechanical Turk. It’s too cheap to do that. If you dont' know what Mechanical Turk is yet, here's an explanation: 1) You add a job. 2) You set a price for that job. 3) People do your job for very very little amounts of money. The jobs that you put up should be fairly simple, and take very little time (usually 1-2 minutes a job).
- Using Amazon EC2 Metadata as a Simple DNS – I use the amazon metadata for creating /etc/hosts and do this on a cron schedule. This does everything I need. Instead of fancy DynDNS tricks or having to run and manage an internal DNS server I just have a ruby script that looks at the metadata ec2 to build /etc/hosts. It's easy. To set it up yourself and try it all you need are 3 easy steps. Step 1- Start each of your instances with unique named key that matches what you want their internal hostname to be. Such as "onion" or "potato" or whatever you want to call them. Step 2- Make sure you have ruby, rubygems and amazon-ec2 (rubygem) installed. Then create a ruby script in /usr/local/sbin/hosts that has the following:
- Amazon Web Services Blog: Don’t Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free! – We polled the attendees at a recent Amazon SimpleDB webinar and found that over half of them didn't know that they could start using the service for free. That's a shame because SimpleDB is easy to use, scales easily to handle high request rates, and is available in our US and EU regions.
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