Where I work, and I’m sure in many places, versioning software has always been a problem. There were different conflicting ways used to version our frameworks and API’s, or worse using no versioning used at all. Effectively, we had our own version (excuse the pun) of DLL hell. I was recently charged with resolving, or …
Monthly Archive: December 2011
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Dec 18
CloudFormation and Chef
Over the past month I’ve been toying with the idea of getting Opscode’s Chef to automate the installation of applications on my server stack on AWS, but it wasn’t until last weekend that I actually bit the bullet and decided to make it work. For those of you don’t know what Chef is, it’s a …
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Dec 07
Fighting the Phantom Restart
I was playing around with CloudFormation from Amazon Web Services (AWS) tonight (blog posts coming soon™) and remembered an issue we regularly have at work with our Windows Servers; whenever we create a new image from an AMI the machine restarts after it’s created. Now ordinarily this wouldn’t be a problem, but our application deployment …
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