Tyler Bird

Goodbye Dear Friend

Tyler — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:03:24 +0000

Tonight marks the passing of a computer that I’ve had for 10 years!

10 years ago there was a big schism in the RAM architecture world. And when I was building my machine I got caught in the middle of this debate. Should I go with DIMM or RIMM memory? What was better technology? At [...]

Rake: Not Your Father's Build Tool

Tyler — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 01:24:17 +0000

On Tuesday I was given the opportunity to give a presentation on rake at our Utah Valley ruby brigade. I chose to cover some of the basic building blocks and comparative history of other build tools.

I was inspired by Martin Fowler’s Using the Rake Build Language and Josh Nichols presentation Rake: The [...]

Do Not Delete This Post

Tyler — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:37:33 +0000

So I recently posted that I was working on collaboration with some other writers. I’ve decided to no longer be involved with the project for reasons kinda personal, so no dish unless you see me personally.

But I then thought, ohk do I revise history and remove the post? I’ve decided not to “play god” [...]

First Screenwriting Collaboration

Tyler — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:44:28 +0000

How It Happened

So I get a message in Facebook from a new friend who wanted to know if I was interested in working on a screenplay with him.

Which seems kinda extra-ordinary because I had been thinking to myself that I wanted to pursuit a collaboration relationship in screenwriting, I just didn’t know who [...]

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 [...]