By Daniel J. Pritchett on November 30, 2008
Let’s get online and start a business!
Last week we discussed the possibility of starting one’s own web business using the inexpensive and scalable Amazon Web Services as a backend. This type of distributed computing is beyond the scope of work I’ve done in the past so this should be interesting and it will probably take [...]
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By Daniel J. Pritchett on November 24, 2008
Once you’ve mastered the means of creating scalable web businesses, do you build one solid business and push it to greatness? Do you sell it and move on to the next big idea? Do you build a string of hopefuls and try to push each of them over the top? I imagine you’d want to [...]
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The Week in Tweets: Week Ending 11/30/2008
By Daniel J. Pritchett on December 1, 2008
This is where my mind was in the last seven days according to my Twitter microblog:
Researching #AWS pricing. Is it possible to build Ruby on Rails for AWS using a Windows box for dev work? I might try a Linux VM for the IDE
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoying an afternoon with the family in Memphis. Leila is [...]
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