One could say that I’m out of the trial period for Ghost, due to having written more personal blog posts than on previous platforms. So I moved my blog out of the AWS EC2 infrastructure and relocated to a data center in San Francisco. I must have created/terminated at least six instances on EC2 to […]
Month: December 2013
Malware for the Holidays
Nothing quite like setting up your child’s first computer. I opted for Windows 8.1 primarily because of how my child responds to it. Microsoft knows what it is doing by leaving us old folks behind. We were tag-teaming the addons and software programs, and our inexperience with free mods for games and learning software exposed […]
Boost your discussion forum performance
A simple blog, like this one, isn’t going to experience significant performance gains from a CDN. Sure, the images are replicated on a few geographically advantageous locations but it doesn’t have that many images to begin with. I’m also taking advantage of CDN-supported html optimization and compression, which makes me feel better but the few […]
Choosing Forum Software
I’ve operated discussion forums as a hobby for many years. My first was a discussion group for a turn-based enviroment where players owned spaceships, planets, and fleets; called Tradewars. I didn’t own or operate the necessary software, just moderated a loosely-knit group of worldwide participants. Back then dial-up bulletin board systems syncronized posts nightly, so […]