• Getting Mod-Rewrite working on your EC2

  

  Mod rewrite is essential to any site, and it especially helps SEO. Here is how to set it up on Ubuntu.

  By sublet on Mar 20th, 2012 at 5:14 PM

• Adding a User to Ubuntu

  

  So, after I got my EC2 instance first setup, I wanted to know how the heck to manage the Wordpress theme I have on it. As a developer, the only real way I knew of getting files onto a web server is by using FTP or SFTP. Up to this point, I was using the .pem file to get connected and manage my server, so [...]

  By sublet on Jul 18th, 2011 at 7:28 AM

• Cron on Ubuntu

  

  One thing that is near and dear to all of us programmers are automated processes. Before, when I was using a hosted solution, I had a beautiful control panel that made it easy to add and remove cron jobs. Now, however, I am using a Amazon EC2 instance without a control panel. So, I needed [...]

  By sublet on Jul 6th, 2011 at 9:33 AM

• Setting up a EC2 Server on Amazon: Part 3

  

  Up to this point you have created the server, and have granted yourself access to it. Now it’s time to make it work how it should, so, let’s jump right into this. We will be using the ever so dreaded command prompt to set this up. There isn’t any way around it so just muster up the courage [...]

  By sublet on Jun 15th, 2011 at 2:27 PM

• Setting up a EC2 Server on Amazon: Part 2

  

  Security Groups got it’s own post, because I think Amazon did it very well, and is very important. When you first set up a EC2 server you have to attach a Security Group which basically tells the server who is allowed to do what on this server. This covers SSH, FTP, HTTP, and everything [...]

  By sublet on May 25th, 2011 at 9:06 AM

• Setting up a EC2 Server on Amazon: Part 1

  

  Before we get too far into this, one important thing to note is that when we refer to an instance, we are basically referring to a server. It’s not it’s own server, but that is how it is referred to. Also important to note is that everything on Amazon’s Web Service is billed hourly. (You can find the pricing [...]

  By sublet on Apr 21st, 2011 at 11:49 AM

• Setting up a EC2 Server on Amazon

  

  This is the introduction of a 4 part series on setting up a server. With the Government Shutdown looming recently, a few buddies at work came to me with an idea for a website that would showcase deals for government workers throughout the DC area. The idea went into motion at 5:00 on [...]

  By sublet on Apr 12th, 2011 at 8:18 AM

• Barstool Sports 3.0

  

  The newest addition to the Design Menace family is a company I have followed since I stomped around the North Shore of Boston. Barstool Sports is a Boston based company, who’s reach has spread into New York City as well. It’s 30 Million plus page views a month warrants it to be load balanced [...]

  By sublet on Jan 7th, 2011 at 6:45 AM

• How to Connect to Webtrends using PHP, through ODBC.

  

  So I spent a few days, on and off, pounding my head against the desk trying to get a ODBC Connection to a WebTrends OnDemand Account using PHP. Now 99% of you will probably never run into this, but I learned some things, and since it isn’t documented at all, and I don’t have anything else to write about now…let me share [...]

  By sublet on Sep 2nd, 2010 at 11:18 AM

• Designing for iOS4

  

  With all of the different devices out there for just the iOS, how does one go about designing for all, without having to backtrack again and again. What am I talking about specifically? Well let’s review Apple’s current iOS line of products. The older iPhone 3 displays at 320×480, the new retina display on the [...]

  By sublet on Sep 1st, 2010 at 10:09 AM