I’ve found a YouTube video I’ve been hunting for for a few months now – “Four Chord song” by Axis of Awesome: basically, they don’t think they’ve had a hit record because they’ve never release a single with a song with these four chords which are used in practically every popular beat combo:
Richy's Random Ramblings
After just over 3 years working at Blue Duck Education Ltd as the Lead Developer/Systems Architect with Toby Rowland and other very talented people (too numerous to name here) building the Mangahigh Maths Games educational resource which we built from a brand new site to being one of the fastest growing educational games sites – I’m now leaving for pastures new.
So where am I going?
Well, my fiancée and I will be starting, on the 3rd of January, a new company called Bairwell Web Development to combine our two talents. Bairwell will be offering WordPress, Perch and LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP 5 : also some Varnish, PostgreSQL, Memcache, Perl and Systems administration) development consultancy services – so if you want a well designed (Katy), scalable and responsive (me) website: then please get in touch with us via our web development site (Katy is still working on it at this time of writing), Twitter or Facebook.
Fingers crossed!
Many of you developers have used Github, but when you want an organisation’s code hosted (in private repositories), Github can be quite expensive. The current rates are:
| Plan | Price | Private repositories | Collaborators | Disk space |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organisations: Platinum | $200/month | 125 | Unlimited | 60Gb |
| Organisations: Gold | $100/month | 50 | Unlimited | 20Gb |
| Organisations: Silver | $50/month | 20 | Unlimited | 6Gb |
| Organisations: Bronze | $25/month | 10 | Unlimited | 2.4Gb |
| Personal only: Medium | $22/month | 20 | 10 | 2.4Gb |
| Personal only: Small | $12/month | 10 | 5 | 1.2Gb |
| Personal only: Micro: | $7/month | 5 | 1 | 0.6Gb |
(Disk spaces on Github are “soft-limits”)
All packages include unlimited public projects.
So, what alternatives are there?
In the US, it’s “black Friday” which means that many companies are having some specials.
Here’s my recommendations of products which are available to people in the UK:
- JetBrain’s PhpStorm editor
50% off Personal Licences. £38 instead of £77. - OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
I’ve found phpStorm a lot better than Eclipse and Netbeans: and as well as PHP, HTML, Javascript syntax colouring and checking, it also does .htaccess files, YAML, XML and more (along with integration with GIT and others). Jetbrains also has the discount on WebStorm (same as PHPStorm, but no PHP editing) and RubyMine. - 1Password password manager
About half price. $24.99 for a single user licence instead of $49.99 - OS: Windows, Mac OS, iOS (iPhone/iPad)
Stores and manages your passwords and secure notes. Extremely useful and handy. Compatible with Dropbox, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer: so you can have all your passwords on all your computers. - Apple
Discounts from all the range (£31 off the iPad 2, £81 off a MacBook Air) - Prag Prog (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
40% off all items - Offering 40% off all of their products when the coupon code “turkey” is used. Quite a selection of books, but I’ve not tried them before…
- Lavasoft Ad-Aware Pro
Save $20 - OS: Windows
Buy the popular anti virus and anti spyware application for $9.95 instead of $29.95. I’ve found their free Ad-Aware application extremely good.
Any other tech deals available today to people in the UK that you know of?
Continued from Make a backup of the Amazon EC2 configuration
Relaunching the Amazon EC2 image
- Log into your Amazon Ec2 account
- Select your Region again
- Select “Images->AMI”
- Select your image and click “Launch”
- Ensure the number of instances of “1” and “Instance type” is “Micro” and click “Continue”