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February 6, 2009

Load Balancing EC2 with HAProxy

Until the time comes when Amazon will offer a load balancing service in their EC2 environment, people are forced to use a software-based load balancing solution. One of the most common out there is HAProxy. I've been looking at it for the past 2 months or so, and recently we started to use it in production here at OpenX. I am very impressed with its performance and capabilities. I'll explore here some of the functionality that HAProxy offers, and also discuss some of the non-obvious aspects of its configuration.

via agiletesting.blogspot.com

 

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February 5, 2009

Posterous autopost is really cool!

via posterous.com

Man, this makes it REALLY easy to post images, audio, video, or text you find on web pages. Also creates "via" links giving credit to sources. It make particularly nice and easy to grab stuff from other posterous blogs.

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February 3, 2009

Menstrual calendar apps...for men

What started as a joke among a bunch of men and women after work in a bar, ended up as an iPhone app. Thanks to Guy Kawasaki for the tip.

 

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February 3, 2009

GLX2 v2.4b28-30 Released

GLX2 Version 2.4b28-30
Tue, Feb 3, 2009, 2:21 PM (GMT-0600)
  • Archiving Parent Stack from File menu now works properly.
  • HyperLinking to handlers no longer creates extra crumb of destination.
  • Option-clicking the last tab where there are two tabs no longer throws an error.
  • Repeated, rapid typing of the escape key no longer throws an error.

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February 2, 2009

Programmers are tiny gods?

Nah, that's just how they behave.

This article (via John Gruber aka Daring Fireball) hits the proverbial nail on the head.

The money quote:

Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll apply every bit of genius they have to solve it in the best possible way. If you tell them how to do it, you’ll suffer the wrath of an angry Go

 

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February 2, 2009

New debugger for GLX2 - a Revolution Tool

We just released a new debugger for GLX2, our development tools for Revolution. This version takes advantage of new debug messages being sent from newer versions of the Revolution IDE (Integrated Development Environment).

Mark Wieder did the work on this version of the debugger.

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