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OpenStack
Today is a big day for Rackspace Hosting. They announced a new project that Rackspace believes will change the way the cloud is developed and it’s called OpenStack – an open source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability.
Cluster Compute Instances for EC2
Amazon is excited to announce the immediate availability of Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2, a new instance type specifically designed for high-performance computing (HPC) applications and other demanding network-bound applications. Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled parallel processes, or with applications sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high [...]
Nice Dog Framework
I just came across this mico php framework a few nights ago. When i say “micro” i mean micro, this framework is one file!
Codeigniter Path Helper
he Path Helper file contains functions that permits you to work with file paths on the server.
Amazon CloudFront Adds HTTPS
Amazon is excited to let you know about three separate changes to Amazon CloudFront, the easy-to-use AWS content delivery network.
Listing files in a directory Codeigniter
The Directory Helper file contains functions that assist in working with directories. First if you plan on using this often you may want to place this in your autoload under the config folder. Below is how you would load it in the controller itself. $this->load->helper(’directory’); Now you have access to the directory_map function, this function [...]
Amazon RDS MySQL
If you are currently running a MySQL deployment on Amazon EC2 or in another computing environment, you may be interested to learn about some of the recent releases for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
CodeIgniter 2.0 Baking
EllisLab today announces changes to our internal development processes, including dropping Subversion in favor of Mercurial and adopting Assembla as our agile software development management tool. Along with these changes, CodeIgniter 2.0 pre-release code is in development, and is now hosted at the Mercurial-focused social coding site BitBucket.
Mail Goggles from Google!
No More drunk emails! When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind? Google [...]
Platforms Windows to Mac
I have been working on Mac’s for a long time but before that i used a PC for everything. I have recently been working on a PC for .NET development and thought i would not enjoy myself at all. I kept my mind open and tried to stay neutral. After working on the PC for [...]



