Monthly Archives: November 2006

Comparing Amazon EC2 with VPS and dedicated hosting

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Todd Huss

I’ve been reading all the great things about Amazon EC2 (or Elastic Compute Cloud) and lots of pricing comparisons with VPS and dedicated hosting. I finally got an EC2 account and tinkered a bit and there’s a big difference between … Continue reading →

Posted in Database, FreeBSD, Linux, MySQL, Systems Administration | 9 Comments

Ajax enabling crusty legacy webapps with Prototype

Posted on November 26, 2006 by Todd Huss

With all of the hype around Ajax it’s easy to think you might need an MVC framework with baked in Ajax support like Rails ActionPack or JBoss Seam to make Ajax easy. However, libraries like Prototype (which is what Rails … Continue reading →

Posted in AJAX, CSS, Javascript, Software Engineering, Web | 1 Comment

Javascript debugging in Internet Explorer

Posted on November 21, 2006 by Todd Huss

It always drives me nuts when I get a Javascript error in Internet Explorer that I can’t reproduce in Firefox because I’m used to debugging Javascript in Firefox with Firebug. I finally had to buckle down and figure out how … Continue reading →

Posted in Javascript, Software Engineering, Web | 2 Comments

Instantiating and populating a list or collection

Posted on November 20, 2006 by Todd Huss

In Java it always irks me when I have to create a collection and then populate it in separate steps as follows: List states = new ArrayList(); state.add(State.CA); state.add(State.WY); Then today I read about using an anonymous subclass with instance … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Ruby, Software Engineering | 12 Comments