Create a Static Website at Amazon AWS using Python, S3, and Route53

Categories: DevOps Engineering Python Web Development
Benefits of Static Web Sites The most important benefits of static web sites are speed and security. Fully static web sites can be delivered via content delivery networks (CDN), making them load much faster to the end user. CDN benefits include caching for your site objects and edge locations (servers) that are geographically closer to your end users. Static web sites are also generally more secure than dynamic sites. This is because there are significantly fewer attack vectors for flat html pages than with using an application server.

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ever2text: Migrating off of Evernote to Dropbox with Plain Text Files

Categories: Projects Python Technology
ever2text: Migrating off of Evernote to Dropbox with Plain Text Files tl;dr ever2text converts Evernote exports of notebooks and files to pure text files, stored in Dropbox. Why migrate off of Evernote? Evernote recently announced they were limiting the free tier of accounts to only 2 devices, and also substantially increasing the pricing of all of their plans. You can read their announcement here. I used Evernote on 5 devices, but I only used Evernote to take text notes.

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Build Rackspace Cloud Servers with Ansible in a Virtualenv

Categories: DevOps Engineering
Ansible, Rackspace Cloud Servers, and Virtualenv Ansible is a powerful tool for managing and configuring servers. It can also be used to create new cloud servers and then configure them automatically for us. For a system administrator, engineer, and developer, ansible can save us a lot of time and hassle by automating a lot of our routine tasks. Here’s a tutorial guide for using ansible to build and configure new Rackspace Cloud servers.

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Beef Stew Recipe for 3 quart Slow Cooker

Categories: Recipes
3 quart slow cooker beef stew recipe I enjoy a nice, hot bowl of stew when it’s cold outside. Making your own beef stew is easy, cheap, and most importantly delicious. Unfortunately for me, I only have a 3 quart slow cooker (Crock-Pot 3-Quart Manual Slow Cooker, Stainless Steel). The good: the slow cooker was free. The bad: most slow cooker recipes are for 6 quart slow cookers. After some experimentation, I’ve come up with a beef stew recipe I really enjoy for my 3 quart slow cooker.

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Favorite Quotes: Thomas Edison on Work, Success and Inventing

Categories: Favorite Quotes
Thomas Edison Quotes on Work Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. – Thomas Edison Thomas Edison Quotes on Success I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

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