I’ve created yet another system for deploying rails apps to ec2 using capistrano. None of the others were doing it for me, primarily because I needed a way to deploy/configure/scale-up to multiple instances as needed.
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I’m in the process of writing some capistrano recipes to make deploying to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (ec2) easier. Since I’m making this project available for general consumption, I wanted a way to make it easy for someone to try it out without having to check something into source control. Read the rest of this entry »
I setup a xen based system for our production environment at work. I’m using LVM throughout for all the benefits it provides (resizing, snapshot backups, etc). Each domU gets its own logical volume on dom0’s volume group. This logical volume actually looks like an entire physical disk to the domU, and the domU then further partitions it into a boot partition and a nested LVM partition (swap + root fs). Aren’t the layers of unix file abstractions a thing of beauty to behold? 
In retrospect I probably should have mapped LVM logical volumes direct from dom0 as partitions in domU rather than having domU add the extra LVM layer on top - though reading around shows that this _may_ not be supported in the future, so… Read the rest of this entry »
To date, my wireless setup at home consists of 2 linksys WRT54Gs modded with the OpenWRT firmware + x-wrt (webif2) for a better web ui. One of these routers serves as my gateway/firewall and the other connects my upper floors to the gateway via WDS (basically, its only there so my Series-1 Tivo can get online as the only mod I have for it is a wired ethernet card I also have a server (mythtv) which connects to my gateway via an ethernet cable cleverly hidden under a rug between the living room and study. Something my wife isn’t too happy with!
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We just added a cool feature called Make My Ringtone, where you can turn any MP3 file into a custom ringtone for your phone. It’s free, easy to use, and works on all major U.S. carriers including Verizon.
To check it out,
1. Go to www.mobicious.com/ringtones/new
2. Select an MP3 file from your desktop
3. Choose and preview any 20 second clip
4. Send your custom ringtone to your mobile phone