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Policy for an S3 only Amazon IAM User
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Snippets on June 27, 2011
Now that Amazon’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) is more widely known, and you can use your IAM credentials to login to the AWS Console, you might be wondering how to really leverage the IAM offering.
Taking Route 53 to Optimized Website Performance
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing on April 11, 2011
When Amazon announced it’s Authoritative DNS service, cheekily named Route 53 a few things popped into my head immediately. First, this should be a much easier way to get the effects of Dynamic DNS which we were currently leveraging DNS Made Easy for. Secondly, I wonder how much of a performance boost using it might [...]
Enabling AWS Console Login for IAM Users
Posted by RyanG in Uncategorized on April 4, 2011
Last week, I told you how you can use Amazon’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) offering to better secure the services and tools you use to manage your AWS environment with service accounts. Well on February 14th IAM got that much sweeter when they opened up the ability for IAM users to login to the [...]
Create AWS Service Accounts with IAM
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing on March 28, 2011
I’ve been making use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) quite a lot lately. In order to really enjoy the benefits of Cloud Computing (automation, agility, etc) I’ve had to use a number of tools to interact with AWS on my behalf. All of these external tools ask for the same thing to enable them to [...]
Please Standby…
Posted by RyanG in Uncategorized on March 21, 2011
You may (or may not) have noticed that there has not been much activity here over the past couple months. There are a number of reasons for that, but I’ll spare you the excuses. I’m here to tell you that things are about to change.
Time is Money – What’s your hourly rate?
Posted by RyanG in Personal Expressions on February 16, 2011
You’ve heard the colloquialism that “Time is Money” right? Perhaps you agree, or perhaps you just scoff at the sentiment. I, for one, have given this particular little proverb a good amount of though. So much so, that I usually work out how much something will “cost” me for my time before I get serious [...]
How to host WordPress for Free
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Linux on February 14, 2011
If you’re looking to start a blog to promote your business, or boost your presence on the internet, you’ve probably heard of WordPress. You may also have heard about the benefits of hosting your own instance of WordPress, but you’re intimidated by the idea of setting up and maintaining your own server, or trusting your [...]
RightScale iTunes Podcast Channel
Posted by RyanG in Uncategorized on February 1, 2011
If you’re like me, every time you get an invitation for one of the RightScale webinars you’re super excited and sign up right away, anxious to see what they have prepared. Perhaps like me you also manage to forget, and the reminder from your calendar application of choice doesn’t pop up.
Long Live the Nikon SB600
Posted by RyanG in Photography on January 10, 2011
It’s been a bit over a year since I dropped my Nikon SB600, rendering it useless. When it happened I was able to disassemble the flash and identify the part which was damaged, but being a relative layman when it comes to circuit board components I didn’t know what to replace it with. Apparently though, [...]
Grails Plugin Dependencies
Posted by RyanG in Grails/Groovy on January 3, 2011
You just finished adding a shiny new plugin to your Grails project, and build some functionality around it. You excitedly push it out to your deployment site and you’re greeted with a NoClassDefException. If this has happened to you, the complex and murky plugin dependency handling of Grails may be to blame.
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