T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM….this is Hebrew for “double colon”. It is the scope-resolution operator in PHP…two colons, like this: PostsController::pageTitle(). Crazy, this string of Hebrew text has been the symbol, ever since PHP v3.
Best way to use Amazon Web Services EC2 to roll out temp servers: Start an EBS bootable image (ami-2675974f). Stop Dont Terminate. Saves all
Yes it’s true. Cake is pretty much “the shit.” At the very least, it has made my teaching job that much easier. The students feel like they’re making progress and actually learning something. I need to step it up and bring some wisdom into the classroom though.
I’m about to start making an e-commerce sub site for the one that I’ve been working on. This is going to, more than anything else, inform me about the quirks and capabilities of Cake.
Lots of new things going on. I started teaching a course on PHP and MySQL for a great university. The bar has been set very high and I am really not meeting the expectations, but this week is spring break and I have a bit of breathing room.
Except…I’m now on deadline to present a version 2.0 of the Joomla-based site that I did work on last year. Basically trying to undo the big mistake of running on Joomla 1.0.15 instead of Joomla 1.5.
In the process, I am trying to do my development work off of an Amazon EC2 instance. The previous time I mentioned EC2 I was unaware of the new capability offered by Amazon to basically save your server onto their EBS (elastic block storage) service. This is a really great feature. I can work on the site for a while and then save it off as my own private image. It’s 100% pay as you go. The costs are a bit high, I am still trying to figure out how to keep the costs down, but I will simply pass along the costs to my client for now. No big deal, they can afford another $100 or whatever it will cost in the end.
My main issue right now is that I am not able to setup my virtual server in a way that allows me to SSH from a machine other than my desktop machine. I think that I’m just not that great with SSH, it seems like this is not a failure on the part of amazon or their EC2 service. I’ve been getting all of these tips from alestic.com, but I do not really see anybody over there discussing this setup. I think I’ll post something over there, or on the Amazon AWS message boards tomorrow and get to the bottom of the problem. I’m tired of researching this stuff, on top of trying to get shit done.
