If you’re using Amazon’s PaaS offering, Elastic Beanstalk, you’re more than likely using .EBExtensions to control the configuration or other aspects of your applications. And I’m sure, As any responsible devloper/admin would, you’re cleaning up after yourself as well… right?
»After wrestling with a .NET app that wasn’t excluding the “packages” directory from the repo, I realized I had missed a crucial and obvious step… I forgot to commit the change to finalize the removal. Talk about one of those “you forgot a comma” moments…
»I was recently asked when it made sense to choose to architect an application based on micro-services vs the more common approach of using a more centralized core framework or codebase. Answering this over Twitter is simply impossible as the answer isn’t simple. In fact, there’s a lot that needs to be considered as the decision extends well beyond just the code.
»I have a number of Linux-based applications that have been using the .ebextensions functionality of Elastic Beanstalk for quite some time. Its a great way of managing the configuration of your environments and running tasks both pre and post-deploy. However, one of my current projects is a C# .NET app and it took me a while to remember how to create a folder in Windows with a leading (.) period. It seems so trivial, but, honestly, I can’t recall the last time I’ve had to do it - chances are many of you can’t either.
»####Installing Nodejs from the standard Ubuntu repos.#### While this won’t get you bleeding edge 0.12.x, it will it will get you a relatively recent and stable version of 0.10.x. This probably isn’t a bad thing as 0.12.x is pretty new and not everything supports it - yet.
»Yes, another post on Mcrypt, but this time for OSX Mavericks. I cannot stress how frustrated I was when upgrading to Mountain Lion hosed my web development environment, let alone when it did it again upgrading to Mavericks. Here is a great post on compiling PHP 5.4.17 with Mcrypt on OSX 10.9.
»Having problems installing PHP5-MCrypt on Ubuntu 13.10? You’re not alone. Apparently this is a bug with the latest version of Ubuntu, where they changed the default location for php modules, but mcrypt was apparently left behind. For full details and a workaround, feel free to visit this Ubuntu Stack Exchange thread.
»I have finally gotten The Tomboy and the Geek back online! This is third site I needed to restore and is right in-line with my Year of the Hustle post. This particular site is meant to help keep our friends and family in the loop with what we’ve been up to. The site previously housed years worth of pictures and content, so it will take a while to get the old content (as much as we still have) republished and available.
»I am happy to report that CurtisRissi.com up and online! Its not much, but its at least a start and will continue to increase in functionality over time. As mentioned in my post, “The Year of the Hustle”, this is simply one item of step one, but is, by far, my most critical site and seeing tangible progress is invigorating. The site is my first real attempt at implementing a Twitter Bootstrap theme and was a great learning experience. If anyone reading this has suggestions, please list them in the comments; I’d love to hear them.
»For the past few months I have been experimenting with the various Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers for PHP and the winner so far is hands down - Pagoda Box. This amazing tool is still under active development, but is insanely cheap and offers some amazing functionality that its competitors don’t. Probably most compelling feature is its support for persistent files storage with - wait for it - SSH access. That’s correct - not everything has to be stored in Git. If you haven’t decided on a PHP PaaS solution, or even if you already have, I recommend checking them out.
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