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Host Hudson CI on Engine Yard AppCloud

Tyler — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 02:50:58 +0000

Hudson CI

The Hudson Continuous Integration server, built on Java, has been adopted by Dr. Nic. He has pioneered the engineyard-hudson project that helps grease the wheels and get a Hudson server running on Engine Yard’s AppCloud in just minutes.

Dr. Nic recorded the screencast footage and then I assisted by providing [...]

Engine Yard is Out of the Hardware Business

Tyler — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:37:43 +0000

Fun With Sledgehammers

While I was recently in San Francisco we had a company meeting and celebrated a huge milestone. We had recently completed an almost year-long migration from our original legacy hardware to our new cloud based virtual machine offerings.

And so Tom Mornini and Ed Muller were able to take a swing [...]

Amazon Out of Capacity

Tyler — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:04:32 +0000

Quickcasts

To answer an answer quickly, and in screencast form, I created the Amazon Out of Capacity Quickcast and published it.

The most popular size EY AppCloud offers is the High CPU Medium. Sometime this size will not be available at the time a user would like to boot an instance. So [...]

Change an Instance Size

Tyler — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:00:46 +0000

Knowing How To Upgrade

This screencast shows you how to upgrade your Engine Yard AppCloud instance from it’s current size to the next size you need. Whether that’s small to medium or more.

Now if you just knew when to upgrade. I mean other than after hours…

Rails Rumble Server Screencasts

Tyler — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:09:54 +0000

Server Setup

By the end of this screencast you’ll have a server running on linode with MySQL, REE, Passenger and Nginx ready to receive your application.

I will provide code snippets here in the blog article so you can copy and paste them into your terminal.

Boot Linode Instance

The steps in the screencast [...]

Setup Performance Monitoring with New Relic

Tyler — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:40:17 +0000

Today I posted the first screencast in Engine Yard’s AppCloud Screencast series on how to Setup Performance Monitoring with New Relic RPM on AppCloud.

It was a lot of fun putting this together as it brought together my skills in audio/video that I’ve not used in quite a while and I still enjoy. I’m quite [...]

Ruby Heroes 2010 Video

Tyler — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:39:06 +0000

Ruby Heroes 2010 from Tyler Bird on Vimeo.

After Yehuda’s keynote Tuesday night at RailsConf the Ruby Hero awards were presented by Gregg Pollack and Nathaniel Bibler from Envy Labs.

The Ruby Hero awards was created in 2008 to highlight people in the Ruby community who have [...]

Quality over Quantity

Tyler — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:53:45 +0000

So last year I thought that writing online, on a daily basis, would be a way to make this blog a better thing. But it’s just another way to fail. And fail publicly.

Well working with my therapist, I’ve learned to try and correct my valuation of outcome versus progress.

When you value outcome only, [...]

Screencasting

Tyler — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:22:24 +0000

I’ve consistently been facinated with the content and quality of Geoffrey Grosenbach’s peepcode screencasts.

And now I’ve finished watching his screencast on how to make your own screencasts I’m still impressed. The difference is that now I want to make my own sceencasts.

So I’ll be working on this and some future posts will be [...]

Road Trip Eve – RailsConf 2009 Las Vegas, NV

Tyler — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:32:00 +0000

Tomorrow I’ll be driving down to Las Vegas for the 2009 RailsConf.

I’m looking forward to more opportunities to evangelize Solo to the masses. Also, it will be great to get together with other Engine Yard peeps and put the name, voice, IRC nick, etc… to the face.