During my time as a web developer I’ve had the opportunity to work on some application that needed serious scalability. But scaling isn’t something we always think of when we set off to build an application. So, here’s a few tips I’ve picked up on the way that can help you build applications that are [...]
The Truth about Freelance Web Development
career / 17th February 2009 / By Elliot
Most web developers have thought about going freelance at some point in their career. And for me, that time is now. After moving from London back home to Cumbria, I’ve decided to start freelancing whilst my Royal Air Force application is processing (It’s a fairly long process). But there are some important things you should [...]
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A Quick Overview of Amazon EC2
Uncategorized / 12th February 2009 / By Elliot
Following my last post, saying that I’d moved my sites to EC2, I had some feedback on twitter asking me where people can find out a little more about the service. So, I thought I’d tell you all about it here. Amazon’s EC2 Service is part of a wider collection of products called ‘Amazon Web [...]
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Fully Rolling on EC2
servers / 11th February 2009 / By Elliot
Hey guys, just thought that I’d mention to everyone that my sites are all now hosted on Amazon’s EC2. Whilst I’ve been using EC2 and other Amazon services such as S3 and SQS, I’ve always been a little hesitant of moving my current setup across. The main reason for this is was the lack of [...]
