This is a quick post about getting Ghost onto a Joyent cloud instance, with the intention of using dtrace on SmartOS to inspect & optimise Ghost's memory utilisation. Sign up for an account on Joyent, set up your key, and then hit create instance. It'll ask you to choose an…
It's 9am and I'm sat in Lisbon airport making good use of the free WiFi after an excellent trip to LxJS 2013 (more about that in a later post). I'm super excited because I have just setup my first blog on Ghost.org, Ghost's brand new hosted service. There's more…
Getting Ghost deployed to an EC2 instance was a real win yesterday. I wrote my first ever bash script to configure EC2 for running Ghost, and quickly managed to write my second ever bash script to build and deploy Ghost to specifc EC2 instance. Feeling pretty pleased with myself. The…
Not much to see here. Finally got a Ghost deploy working on amazon ec2 :)…
A new version of Migrate! is now available to download from Github. What does this fix? This is a really small update / bugfix to add support for https:// in the URL checks. All credit goes to bteryk It's been a while... It's been far too long! This is one small…
Recently, I went through the process of setting up a new development environment on Windows for my playground projects at home. My work is usually done and hosted on Linux with a standard LAMP stack, so using an ubuntu virtual machine lets me keep my Windows machine for gaming and…
I loved this little collection of quotes from philipchircop.com and recommend you click on the screen grab, or one of the links to go read them all. I'm just filing this away here for posterity :) [caption id="attachment_2384" align="alignleft" width="528"…
I know, we're almost a week into 2012 already, it's a bit late for contemplating achievements and setting resolutions isn't it? Every year, the "January diet" gets further reinforced by our populist media - all the adverts are suddenly for exercise DVDs, clever cookbooks and healthy food -…