We Lost a Great One.

October 5, 2011 // Web // 0 Comments

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

We lost a great one.

Every generation has someone they look up to, they admire.

I looked up to Steve, I admired Steve. I loved his character, his influence, his ideas, his attention to details. The list could go on.

One of my personal goals was to meet Steve. I wish that could’ve happened.

Though he is gone, his legacy will live on.

Apple will live on.

I installed OS X Lion this afternoon. The last OS X release he got to see; I’m sure he already had influence on 10.8. I’m sure we’ll see it when Apple releases it.

Maybe we’ll meet in heaven. I sure hope so.

EC2: Sign Up and Choose a Linux Distro

October 3, 2011 // Series // 1 Comment

[This is part of the series: Getting Started with EC2]

Imagine this: A ginormous cluster of computers on an optical network running an OS similar to VMWare ESXi with some of the fattest connections to the Internet in the world. That’s basically what EC2 is. Every time you create a new “instance”, you’re launching a virtual server on top of that platform. It’s incredibly powerful, and you’re here because you want in! Let’s get started. Continue Reading…

Series: Getting Started with EC2

October 2, 2011 // Series // 0 Comments

Sundays are usually my day to play and rest, but instead I’ve been thinking about what to blog about this week. It doesn’t always come naturally, so I have to take time to think about it.

Coming up this week is a series on Getting Started with AWS EC2! I’m going to focus on the free tier, but it’ll apply for any tier. I could write it all in one post, but it’d be massive and no one likes massive blog posts…at least I don’t. Here’s the breakdown:

EC2 is an awesome platform, but getting started is a definite challenge.

I’m looking forward to this one! Get ready!

Import Large SQL Files

September 30, 2011 // How To // 0 Comments

I’ve been in the process of server migration over the past few days. It’s been easy and I’ve experienced no down time thanks to Cloudflare and the fact that DNS propagation takes a while.

One of the hardest parts of migration wasn’t the site files, it was the databases! I had exported all of the databases into 1 SQL file via phpMyAdmin, but it was too large for phpMyAdmin to import so I had to find a way to get everything back where it belonged! Thankfully, MySQL makes this simpler than I’d imagined.

To import a SQL file:

  1. Login to the server via SSH
  2. Login to mysql with: mysql -u USER -p'PASSWORD'where USER is your MySQL user and PASSWORD is your MySQL password.
  3. Type: source FILENAME.SQL where FILENAME.SQL is the path to the SQL file you wish to import
  4. Hit enter, and watch it import!

Thoughts on Site Search

September 28, 2011 // Blogging // 0 Comments

I was looking through some Google Analytics reports last night and noticed the site search report. I’ve never paid a ton of attention to it, but it made me think. Iknow why we have search bars, and I even know why WordPress includes one by default, but if you look at the numbers, it becomes tempting to remove it from the sidebar.

I think the biggest issue is people’s prior history with in-site searches. Usually they don’t work – at all. I think people might’ve become accustomed to that and though they see the search bar, they would rather hit the back button and scroll through Google’s search results instead of taking the risk of a bad search algorithm.

My question is how do we tell people that it’s ok to use our blog’s built in search and that if their query exists, they’ll find it? I replaced WordPress’ built in search with a Google Custom Search Engine. I guarantee you’ll find what you want…if it exists within the confines of this blog…it’s Google’s algorithm!

I mean, I don’t want to over glorify it, it’s just search, but at the same time, seeing those stats above is kind of disheartening.

Have you ever thought about this? Any thoughts?

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