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

Sat Feb 5 17:06:17 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.

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.
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> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:28 AM, jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com <
> jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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>
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>> 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?"
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>> *As it says, in the link above, this ain't a talk. It's hands-on. *
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>> *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?*
>> *
>> *
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>> *Clint Rubottom and Patrick Homans, from TekSystems, will supply pizza.
>> There really is such a thing as a free lunch.*
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>>> 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.
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>> AWS has reached escape velocity.
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>> 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.
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>> You can pull the ported code from right here, on GitHub.<https://github.com/jsh/BarrBookCode>
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>>>
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> The code and notes will improve as you hit omissions and find fixes. I've
>> marked spots where I know need help in red.
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>> 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>
>> .
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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]
>> פרייהייט? דאס איז יאַנג דינען וואָרט.
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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]
> פרייהייט? דאס איז יאַנג דינען וואָרט.
> *
> *
>
>

-- 
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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