The Amazon EC2 service is a rather revolutionary cloud computing system that came out in late 2006. It provides a fairly flexible infrastructure that allows you to launch application servers on demand. Traditionally new web companies are forced to pay for rather expensive co-location facilities for their servers, with little or not thought [...]

I went out for a few beers tonight with Boris and Dave down in Yaletown, a pseudo celebration for Cinco De Mayo. One of the topics that came up casually over a few margaritas was the fast approaching onslaught of Vancouver technology events.
Shira and Maura and Launch Party Vancouver 2
Kicking [...]

Tonight is the first ever WordCamp Vancouver down at The Network Hub. WordCamp is a unique event that brings together WordPress enthusiasts with a passion for one of the most widely used blogging packages, WordPress.

The presenters for the night are:
Rebecca Bollwitt: Adding photos to your [...]

So it’s been fairly cool passively watching the WordPress blogs on the internet slowly convert to BraveNewCode’s WPtouch iPhone theme. Tod Maffin just sent me a link to the CBC’s Official Blog, which now sports a fancy new WPtouch theme.

Check it out.

I’ve been using Google Reader as my main RSS reader for some time. For the most part, I’m pretty happy with it. They’ve recently added the ability to share items, which makes it far more interesting.
The one thing I’d love to see though is the ability to add local comments on those [...]

I accidentally stumbled onto my own feed in Google reader today and noticed some photos I actually didn’t take. For whatever reasons, it seems like feed burner is not filtering the content based on my user account at Flickr, but instead is including public photos tagged “feedburner”, something it never used to do.
I checked [...]

Good news is I’m fairly happy with the outcome, especially with the branding part of it. Plus transcoding only took about 3 or 4 minutes. I signed up for a Pro Account on a month by month basis for this upcoming weekend. It gives me priority transcoding and the ability to automatically [...]

For those of you who follow what goes on in the web services part of the internet, this little tidbit may interest you. Amazon has offered relatively cheap cloud computer for the last year or so, but one of the major downsides was that it didn’t have a static IP address. So if [...]