[lug] AWS Installfest-in-the-Cloud

[jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com]

Next Saturday.  Y'all come.

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>
> 720-837-8908 [cell], http://seejeffrun.blogspot.com [blog],
> http://www.youtube.com/user/goyishekop [vlog]
> פרייהייט? דאס איז יאַנג דינען וואָרט.
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> *
>
>


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Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
720-837-8908 [cell], http://seejeffrun.blogspot.com [blog],
http://www.youtube.com/user/goyishekop [vlog]
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