Tag: aws

  • V! Message: private, member-to-member conversations, loosely-coupled

    V! Message initial trade inquiry form for Trade To Travel The Client’s Need: Communication One of our clients, Trade To Travel, had an urgent need to allow their members to communicate directly with each other: their staff were overloaded having to act as intermediaries, shuttling queries and clarifications between guests and hosts who were trying…

  • Going in the Deep End

    Thoughts after using Go on a few projects. We have been Wading into Go on some projects recently. In fact we have been using it on small and throw away projects for a while. We first used Go in anger to manage transfering and updating ~500,000 unique files (~1TB total) from an EBS volume to S3. It was my…

  • Wading into Go

    From Python to Go We dove into Python years ago and now are wading into the Go language. Our team’s been using Python for a hells age, building applications in Plone, Django, Flask and Pyramid. It’s been very good to us and the communities are full of bright folks who are willing to share what…

  • AWS hijinx: Windows instances launched from AMI fail to get new password, password recovery only makes things worse

    More Windows, more password problems When a Windows Server 2008R2 instance is launched from a custom AMI, the Amazon EC2Config service is supposed to generate a new random password for the administrator account. Instead when trying to use the “Get Windows Password” option. the user is presented with the dreaded “Your password is not Ready”…

  • WordPress White Page of Death vanquished: database and template mangling when changing hosts

    What are we working on? Our team is working on a contract to migrate a number of public and internal NASA web sites and application to the public cloud, Amazon Web Services in this case. Some of these we’re migrating almost verbatim, some we’re migrating from one application platform to another, and a few we’re…