Category Archives: Ideas

Cool things others are doing in the library or tech community that might be useful for me in the future. Or just generally things I’ve seen that I think are pretty cool.

Update on Amazon Web Services

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Rosalyn Metz

Amazon released some new features for AWS: Load Balancing — Enables you to automatically balance incoming requests and distribute traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. You will be able to intelligently distribute load within or across Availability Zones, without worrying … Continue reading →

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Installing Tomcat and XTF on my Mac

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Rosalyn Metz

Friday I decided to be a complete and utter geek and install Apache Tomcat on my Mac.  I know, I know you’re asking me “But Rosalyn Apache comes with a Mac, why do you need Tomcat?”  Well that’s a good … Continue reading →

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Amazon EC2: Finding AMIs and Using Command Line Tools

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Rosalyn Metz

I set up my command line tools with a little help from Robert Sosinski’s blog which I think lays things out a little more clearly than Amazon’s instructions. I’ve abandoned for now using Elastic Fox, my brain needs to wrap … Continue reading →

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