Using FriendFeed for Blog Comments

So I’ve redesigned. It was time: there’s just so much purple a fellow can take. The new el-studio.com brings you all sorts of good stuff:

How to Use FriendFeed from Email

At the office, we use FriendFeed for sharing and discussing links. It’s great for that. There’s a bookmark that lets you share links and images with a click. And we use groups to keep discussions (somewhat) on-topic – especially for our top-secret internal discussions.

Scaling Drupal on the Amazon Cloud - Drupalcon presentation

@febbraro and I presented our work hosting Drupal on Amazon AWS at Drupalcon last night. Thanks to everybody who could make it. Slides below for download.

How I Sold Our Web Servers and Moved to the Cloud

At NTEN, the nonprofit tech conference, last year I met a developer who was really exited. One of the vendors on the floor was giving away Pentium 3 processors, and he had a box that could use an extra boost.

4 Steps to Happiness Working with GitHub Projects

Git is a great (and fashionable) source control management program. GitHub takes the pain out of hosting Git for a group – for both open-source and private projects. How to best use them together? The Way to Happiness has these 4 steps:

GitHub Best Practices

The folks at GitHub have taken the pain out of centralized Git hosting. Even better, they’ve built in tools that make distributed version control easy to use for group projects. But how to set up your repositories and branches to avoid merge pain? Here are two good options.

Full Disk Restore from Time Machine Backups - Over the Network

Turns out Time Machine is not just for accidentally deleted files – it works great for restoring a Mac from bare metal, too. Even over the network.

Letter to CIO: OpenID, Please

I sent a letter to our CIO the other day asking for OpenID for the office. Strikes me that OpenID is one place where traditional interests of IT (ensuring users have access to what they need, compliance) jibe with those of Web 2.0 service users.

JungleDisk 2.0 Gets Compatible S3 Buckets, Horray

The folks at JungleDisk released version 2.0 Monday. This is a major – and welcome – upgrade.