brainless stuff!

Trying out GeoDNS

2012-01-23T10:45:00.000-08:00

For the last 3 weeks that we have started working on Mag, we have been talking to a few prospective clients or other knowledgeable folks out there. We want to understand how individuals, SMBs or larger organizations use Social Media or the Internet in general. Of course all of these initial meets are local to Bangalore and a few in other cities in India (over the phone). We have been getting a

Schema Example on Amazon DynamoDB

2012-01-20T05:00:00.000-08:00

First an apology to anyone who read my previous blog post. I had used wrong rates for throughput capacity. I noticed this since my calculations seemed a little costly :) Throughput Capacity price as on AWS website, as of today: * Write Throughput: $0.01 per hour for every 10 units of Write Capacity * Read Throughput: $0.01 per hour for every 50 units of Read Capacity Thus as per my example of

Day One of Amazon DynamoDB

2012-01-19T20:39:00.000-08:00

Its been just about a day that I have been going through the documentation of the newly released Amazon DynamoDB. Using the PHP SDK and getting a basic Table up was simple. Right now I am planning the data organization. DynamoDB is a schema less data store. There is a primary key per table which is your main query column, so as to say. I am trying to use existing MongoDB based data mappers and

Mag will use Amazon DynamoDB

2012-01-19T04:52:00.000-08:00

Amazon's latest announcement (and offering) could not have come at a better time for Mag. I am talking about Amazon DynamoDB here and I feel it is a good fit for Mag. For the last few weeks I have been looking at many available options for the data storage for Mag. Notice I mentioned data store and not RDBMS. The reason is that Mag's data is really a large collection of configurations for

Price comparison of dedicated or VPS hosts

2012-01-16T04:30:00.000-08:00

For the impatient: link to spreadsheet. For the last few weeks I have been looking around a lot on the web, checking for details and prices of VPS or dedicated servers. I am looking for places to host Mag when it starts growing. Not that I am leaving AWS in any way. But for Mag we will need servers at a lower bandwidth cost that on AWS. I am looking for self managed (or unmanaged) dedicated/VPS

Height of Facebook custom Page Tabs

2012-01-13T09:29:00.000-08:00

This is a quick tip: I am currently working on a Facebook app. I have a demo for a custom Page Tab. But somehow the height was not setting properly. The canvas height setting in the Developer setting was to Fluid. I have no clue where was the setting for Page Tab. Anyway after a little search I found that the following code works: