Category Archives: Web stuff

If you look at the 8086 opcode map I put together a few weeks ago, you’ll notice that the left margins of the introductory text area and the “bodies” of the opcode tables are aligned. I like this effect. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

This is a quick guide to setting up an Amazon EC2 instance as a Django server. There are many other guides along these lines, but this one includes a “turn-key” script to get everything up and running, as well as … Continue reading →

I’ve been working with a large-ish MySQL table on an EC2 instance. This table has approximately 147MM rows, and I’ve been disappointed with the performance I’ve seen. I took a look at how much performance I could gain by moving … Continue reading →

As I work with Amazon EC2, I find that I need to configure machine images for specific tasks. In general, I’ve preferred to perform this configuration by running brief install scripts on the standard Amazon-owned images, rather than using more … Continue reading →

I recently installed phpMyAdmin on one of my EC2 machine images. In the course of doing so, I found it necessary to upgrade the PHP interpreter. I did not think that the best way to perform this upgrade was obvious, … Continue reading →

After writing last week’s post on a Bloxorz solution algorithm, I was inspired to revisit the solver to make it a little more useful. In addition to cleaning up a few minor bugs, I preloaded it with all 33 levels … Continue reading →

I find the JS interpreter demo that the MochiKit folks put out to be quite useful. It makes it easy to do little JS experiments from any web browser. Many times, however, I’d like to import some external JS libraries … Continue reading →

I’ve been looking at Amazon’s S3 service recently. S3 is a great deal for storage, but I wondered how cost-effective it is at serving content. After a little computation, the answer seems to be: “It’s not that great”.