Archive for November, 2010

Announcing The Automatic Blog Machine

Monday, November 29th, 2010

This is the project that I have been focused on building for the last few months, and it has expanded from work that I have been doing off and on for several years.  I’m excited that it finally has a home of it’s own and is nearly ready to release to the public. I will [...]

Scaling With Amazon EC2

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

For my next web application I am using Amazon EC2 Cloud infrastructure for hosting.  This is going to be by far the most demanding web application in terms of memory, processing and disk requirements I have ever launched and so it requires a scalable system to run on.  One of the frustrations I’ve had with [...]

Malware Profits

Monday, November 8th, 2010

On a recent trip home to my parents house I was asked to do what most tech savvy guys are asked.  ”Please fix my computer.”  This time around I found my parents computer had been infected with something that left both google and yahoo search results being diverted to parked advertising sites.  It was pretty [...]