[lug] BLUG's First AWS Installfest-in-the-Cloud

Mon Feb 7 16:21:38 MST 2011

> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> What enormous fun I had.  Thanks to all who came, and an extra measure to
> those of you who provided all the logistical support: a room, handouts,
> connectivity, books, pizza, bagels, doughnuts, coffee, expertise, ....
>
> We ended up with about forty attendees.  A community is just the people
> who're in it.  I'm quite thankful for ours.
>
> If you're hungry for more, do check out Jeff Barr's book, which is a good
> door into the world of AWS, to which you now have access. If you wanted a
> book but forgot to get one, come on Thursday -- there are four left.
> Well,
> okay, three after I take one.

i'd like to reserve one of those books please if one is still available.

thanks

> And if you start a cool AWS project, and want to talk about it, let me
> know.
>  BLUG still has two open months left, this year. :-)
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:43 AM, jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com <
> jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 10am-2pm, tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 5), Aztek Networks, 2477 55th street,
>> boulder, co 80301-2835.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:28 AM, jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com <
>> jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> If you were at BLUG, on Thursday and heard this, here it is again. If
>>> not,
>>> read on.
>>>
>>> Saturday, February 5, the Boulder Linux Users Group is putting together
>>> an
>>> *Installfest-in-the-Cloud*.<http://lug.boulder.co.us/special_events.html>
>>>
>>>
>>> You're encouraged to wander in, get whatever help you need to set up a
>>> free, Amazon Web Services account, and ask questions, like "Now that I
>>> can
>>> get on to AWS and use it, why would I want to?"
>>>
>>> *As it says, in the link above, this ain't a talk. It's hands-on. *
>>> *
>>> *
>>> *This month's talk was Mark Salee on Xen, which AWS uses for
>>> virtualization. Next month's talk, February 10, will be Tom
>>> Preston-Werner
>>> on GitHub, which appears, a bunch, below.*
>>> *
>>> *
>>> *Coincidence? I think so. An amazing, astrological, alignment of the
>>> stars. Me, I'm an Orion, with my moon in Cassiopeia and Ursa Minor
>>> rising.
>>> You?*
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
>>> *Clint Rubottom and Patrick Homans, from TekSystems, will supply pizza.
>>> There really is such a thing as a free lunch.*
>>>
>>>  *
>>> *
>>>
>>>> Some of you will walk out of the event wanting a solid,
>>>> self-contained,
>>> treatment on how to use AWS.  Jeff Barr's *Host Your Web Site in the
>>> Cloud <http://www.amazon.com/Host-Your-Web-Site-Cloud/dp/0980576830>*
>>> fills
>>> the bill perfectly, and will get you where you want to go.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, none of the code in it works.
>>>
>>> Oh, it *used* to.  But the book was published waaay back in September,
>>> and the world has changed since then. Jeff Barr is Amazon's chief AWS
>>> Evangelist, so it's not as though he's some know-nothing, slipshod,
>>> slacker,
>>> either.
>>>
>>> AWS has reached escape velocity.
>>>
>>>>
>>> I went through all his code and tweaked it to work again. I didn't want
>>> you to start out excited but end up frustrated.
>>>
>>> You can pull the ported code from right here, on
>>> GitHub.<https://github.com/jsh/BarrBookCode>
>>>
>>>>
>>> You'll get a bundle of working code that's minimally different from
>>> Jeff
>>> Barr's. I've eschewed gratuitous tinkering. You'll have no trouble
>>> correlating the book with the code in GitHub.
>>>
>>>>
>>> I've put step-by-step instructions and
>>> tips<https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1tvk2zbmcA_-x6GBnuhaKHBRhhcTATUh7YYVhx6qbkGc>
>>> on
>>> Google docs. They're help for things Jeff Barr assumes but weren't
>>> obvious
>>> to me.
>>>
>>> There are minor bugs I couldn't figure out how to fix in Chapters 7 and
>>> 11
>>> (described in those notes), which probably just shows lack of
>>> imagination on
>>> my part.
>>>
>>> The code and notes will improve as you hit omissions and find fixes.
>>> I've
>>> marked spots where I know need help in red.
>>>
>>>>
>>> Want to see what I changed, when, and why? GitHub holds every detail.
>>>
>>> If this is your cup of tea, click on the links, above. Or just start
>>> here<https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1tvk2zbmcA_-x6GBnuhaKHBRhhcTATUh7YYVhx6qbkGc>
>>> .
>>>
>>>>
>>> --
>>> Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
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>>> *
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
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>
>
> --
> Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
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