http://blog.p-for-productivity.com Solving problems using cloud computing... Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:33:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the past weeks, I have been experimenting with different setups for hosting Git repositories. The environments where I tested these were very different: on my Dreamhost accout I can't run daemon processes, while on the company server, I'm very well allowed to. However, even with these different environments, I didn't ... http://blog.p-for-productivity.com/?p=95 Secure Shell is a great tool for securely connecting between several machines. In the past weeks, I am using it more and more, but I was getting tired of typing too much. I found a great article on setting up passwordless authentication using public/private keys and defining multiple SSH identities, but it ... http://blog.p-for-productivity.com/?p=93 Lately, I have been reading a lot on various technical topics. Usually, after my reading session, I try to find out how to mix good products and/or tools for the benefits not just to add up, but to multiply. The latest products and tools I have been examining are these: SpringSource dm ... http://blog.p-for-productivity.com/?p=71 Continuing with the volume created in the post Sharing EBS Volumes Among Instances, in this post I show how to create a snapshot, create a new volume from that snapshot, and mount the new volume in an instance. Remember that the volume created in the previous post contained 1 file ... http://blog.p-for-productivity.com/?p=58 In this post I share an experiment to create an EBS volume, to attach it to an EC2 instance, to mount it in the instance, to put a file on it, to unmount it, and to detach it. Afterwards the volume will be mounted in another instance (while the first ... http://blog.p-for-productivity.com/?p=39 Section "Setting up the Tools" of the Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide explains how to set up environment variables, so that the EC2 tools find themselves (EC2_HOME), Java ($JAVA_HOME), the private access key file (EC2_PRVATE_KEY) and the certificate file (EC2_CERT). And they also suggest to change the PATH variable, so that you can run ... http://blog.p-for-productivity.com/?p=35 In order to experiment with Amazon Web Services, I requested an AWS account and I installed a bunch of software to get started. Here is an overview of what I did to get up and running. Setting Up an AWS Account and the EC2 Tools I filled in the registration form to ... http://blog.p-for-productivity.com/?p=5