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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) - Limited Beta
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011
EC2 let’s you load an arbitrary number of OS images known as AMI’s (Amazon Machine Image is a configured Linux distro ready to [...]
Rubytastic Nerdgasm!
From an article about choosing RoR, Ruby on Rails, comes this awesome snippet.
Combine the semantic beauty of Ruby with the visual beauty of text on the screen in TextMate and you’ve got a Rubytastic nerdgasm. Getting Real with Lovetastic: #1, Why We Chose Rails
How to Provide a Web API
Alex Bosworth lays it down in 5 simple rules.
What are a few simple rules for providing a web API? Keep it clean and simple Stick to standards Make it about data Keep it working Design for updates http://www.sourcelabs.com/blogs/ajb/2006/08/how_to_provide_a_web_api.html
Link via Jeremy Zawodny’s [...]
MySQL Triggers: How do you abort an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE with a trigger?
On EfNet’s #mysql someone asked:
How do I make a trigger abort the operation if my business rule fails?
In MySQL 5.0 and 5.1 you need to resort to some trickery to make a trigger fail and deliver a meaningful error message. The MySQL Stored Procedure FAQ says this about error handling:
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