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An analysis of GPL’ed code in Thesis
Introduction There has come to be a huge debate regarding whether the Thesis WordPress theme can be premium licensed when the WordPress code itself is released under the GPL. The GPL requires that any...
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Beyond Thesis: Does the GPL go too far and what makes a derivative work?
After the analysis of several people (including myself) about the inclusion of GPL’ed WordPress code, I think the debate over Thesis has mostly subsided with Chris on the losing end. However, the...
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Celebrating WhyDay: My new project StatusBench.com
I searched long and hard for an idea on how I could celebrate #whyday. In the end, I decided to launch a new website service that I (and I’m hoping a few others) have a need for: StatusBench.com...
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New Ruby Gem: AWS-SES
I’ve release a new gem: aws-ses. This gem provides a ruby wrapper to accessing Amazon SES, allowing for you to easily send e-mail, verify e-mail addresses, and monitor your SES activity. It’s still...
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A new mentorship program
I recently returned from RailsConf 2012 in Austin. I had a terrific time, learned a ton, and most importantly: I was inspired. I was inspired to return to making more contributions to Open Source...
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AWS VPC Error: Client.InvalidParameterCombination
When trying to execute an ec2-run-instances command for a VPC, you must specify both which subnet & which security group you want it to belong to: ec2-run-instances ami-abc123 \ --group sg-abc123 \...
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Fixing Passenger error: PassengerLoggingAgent doesn’t exist
While doing a new install of Passenger & nginx, I ran into some strange errors: 2012/09/25 20:09:54 [alert] 2593#0: Unable to start the Phusion Passenger watchdog because it encountered the...
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Reading between the lines of the AWS outage – Why you should be worried Part 1
TL;DR: There are many very real problem with AWS that are being ignored. #1 is that they appear to have no plan for dealing with their ongoing software bugs. There has been a surprising amount of talk...
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Reading between the lines of the AWS outage – Why you should be worried Part 2
TL;DR: The real problem is there isn’t enough capacity. The us-east1 region is too big and during an outage there simply aren’t enough resources to allow users to recover their sites. In part 1 I...
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Launch an AWS EC2 AMI instance with an EBS disk larger than the default
When you launch an EBS instance on EC2, you get a root disk size that is the same as what the machine image was created with. For example, the Ubuntu AMIs by default are 8GB. Typically, the best...
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