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Roll Your Own CDN with Amazon S3 and Cloudfront

johnblackmore — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:11:38 +0000

If you serve a lot of static files from your website you can acheive a healthy speed boost for your visitors as well as offloading the burden of serving up those files by using Amazon Cloudfront to roll your own Content Delivery Network (CDN). Setting up your own CDN is a three step process and it’s [...]

Twitter Autoresponders Are Good

whitepug — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:21:57 +0000

Twitter autoresponders and people that use them have been getting a bit of a bad rep recently. I thought I would just add my thoughts on the subject to why I think otherwise. For those who have not experienced a Twitter autoresponder or don’t know what I’m talking about I mean the automated messages you [...]

Acer Aspire One finally supports 3 Network Huawei E220 Modem

whitepug — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:27:51 +0000

I’ve had an Acer Aspire One for quite some time now but have yet to write anything about it. In fact I was one of the stupid few who rushed out on UK launch day to make sure I had one of those dinky little netbooks, only to find out a few days later the [...]

UK Car Show Photos from the last 5 years

whitepug — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:01:53 +0000

After attending the French Car Show 2008 at Rockingham this year I was reminded about how much things have changed over the last five years of car modifying and tuning. Back in 2003 I took part in my first “show” at Lutterworth House in Leicestershire at French Car Show 2003. Just five years ago styling [...]

Will Mobile Broadband be the Death of WiFi Hotspots? I think yes!

whitepug — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:24:05 +0000

With the increasing rise in numbers of portable devices in recent years the demand for ubiquitous Internet connections is increasing too. At the time I was taking my degree in 2006 there were estimated to be over 1 billion pervasive computing devices and this number was increasing all the time. photo credit: gailjadehamilton As we move forward [...]