Etherpad is a hosted web service that allows really real-time document collaboration for groups of users. It’s like Google Docs, or perhaps Google Docs is like Etherpad on steroids ? Anyway, if you’re looking for a secure real-time document sharing tool (unfortunately Etherpad is only able to server text documents with very basic formatting) here’s how to deploy it on Debian (Squeeze). Read more »
Riak is something like memcached, a data store, key value db. I’m not a programmer so don’t realy know the differance between these two and never used it for anything but I was asked to installl it on ec2 and as getting it running on local interface was simple the public interface caused some troubles. And this time google didn’t help. Read more »
ImageMagick lenny package sucks. Espacially if You want RMagick gem on the box. Here is how to get it working: Read more »
Here is the easiest way of getting latest puppet installed on Lenny when you start from scratch: Read more »
I had some problems with ec2 and EBS recently when mounting EBS drive with XFS on it. Basically the machine was frozen and only way to get it back was request to detach EBS drive and reboot the ec2 machine, I found a fix here. Read more »
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