Ellislab Session at SXSW – Video

If you weren’t lucky enough to get to SXSW this year, don’t worry!

Andru Edwards from GearLive has posted a video of the Ellislab session. The session discusses the migration of ExpressionEngine to CodeIgniter. After the speaches and demonstration there’s a question and answer session which answered a couple of the points I’d been pondering about.

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Exploring Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

This week I’ve been reading a great deal about Amazon EC2, a service which lets you rent servers from Amazon’s huge server farms from as little as 10 cents/hour ($73/month).

The principle behind EC2 is genius. You select which ‘AMI’ (linux image) you want to start your server with, then choose what spec you want.

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Test Sites in Any Platform – Live!

I recently wrote a post mentioning Browsershots – a service which allows you to request screenshots of your site in different browsers/operating systems.

While that’s all well and good, how about the ability to test things live? Like AJAX, Javascript and all that other fun magic. Well, now there’s a service that lets you do all that!

CrossBrowserTesting‘, a service which lets you request VPN time on a wide range of different browsers and operating systems.

The choice is quite amazing, and the service seems pretty stable!

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