Log into the AWS web console, find the instance you want to create an AMI from, right click and select “Create Image (EBS AMI)”. Follow the wizard. All the top results in Google are for The Long Way™ to do this. The Long Way has a bunch of useful things to take into consideration (security, [...]
This post was inspired by this TED talk from Sheryl Sandberg, which reminded me of this brilliant blog post by Jolie O’Dell. The whole women in tech thing is something which interests me (as a techie, as well as a human being), and there are loads of great discussions (and terrible ones) about it. Have [...]
I’ve thrown together a little hack that gives current Dublin Bus route status information in JSON format. Endpoint: http://rossduggan.ie/stuff/bus/ Simply calling the endpoint will return a JSON object of all bus routes and their associated statuses. Append ?route=x to the endpoint and you’ll get just the results for the route specified (or what it thinks [...]
Paul Conroy has written a little bookmarlet to add imgur previews to the Twitter web interface, and has a detailed explanation of how he’s done it. The Algorithm + the Crowd is not enough. I have a response post gestating. Defecting by Accident, A Flaw Common to Analytical People. This is “How to Win Friends [...]
If you need to extract information from a large number of images on disk (and you’re using a *nix system), you could do worse than using find with Imagemagick’s command line tools. If you’re unfamiliar with find, I’d recommend reading the beginners guide on Linux.ie. It has terse and initially daunting syntax, but is one [...]
Leslie Jensen-Inman via A List Apart, examines the use of colour. Worth a read, especially for the tools she highlights: Graybit – see the web as a colourblind person sees it. Color Scheme Designer – impressive tool for color matching and testing. Check My Colours – Checks a URL for potential contrast problems. Clay Shirky [...]
Prescient – “The End of Practical Obscurity” (dated 21/05/2003) Further evidence supporting the idea that Apple is planning to cut the legs out from underneath Google. Discussion: Students and professional developers take on the “skill shortage” in the IT sector (Boards.ie). Mark Dennehy’s take. Somewhat prescient, somewhat wacky – What the future looked like in [...]
In the same minute that I pressed “publish” on this blog entry, it was downloaded by search engines, chopped up into keywords and indexed for the world to find. It was downloaded into RSS readers. If it were something significant or vaguely interesting to someone, it might be copied to another blog, a forum, linked [...]
Just a thought that came out of a café conversation with Conor; the increasing effort from Apple to eradicate Adobe’s Flash platform from their devices could be a subversive attack on the advertising revenue of both Google and Microsoft. We know that Apple owns the high end of consumer laptop purchases and holds a significant [...]
In response to the three questions proposed by Jason Calacanis today: 1. Is Facebook clueless, unethical or just unlucky? Why? I don’t believe that Facebook could possibly be clueless; they’re one of the few companies that gets to take their pick of what talent is available to the industry. This is a slip into the [...]