I’m trying to compare VPS and Amazon Web Services commonly known as AWS or Amazon Cloud. I found this links useful:

http://www.quora.com/Should-I-use-Amazon-EC2-S3-or-Dreamhost-for-web-hosting

http://www.jonasblog.com/how-to-use-amazon-ec2-cloud-computing-for-your-website

http://www.craigburke.com/blog/2011/06/27/amazon-web-services-vs-linode/

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/20603/what-is-the-real-price-of-an-amazon-ec2-machine

http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-getting-started-with-amazon-ec2

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1518594/when-should-one-use-the-following-amazon-ec2-google-app-engine-microsoft-azur

Here’s a bonus! AWS guide (kudos! to the Filipino programmer who created this)

http://media.jonasblog.com/docs/Amazon_AWS_Final_3.pdf

The other day, finally I got the confirmation on my registration for the Google Dev Feast 2010 – Manila. Below is the program of activities and the speakers taken from the Google Dev Feast page.

Program

• 08:30 – 09:00 – Registration
• 09:00 – 09:15 – Introduction/Welcome
• 09:15 – 10:15 – Maps
• 10:15 – 10:30 – Morning break
• 10:30 – 11:30 – Chrome/HTML5
• 11:30 – 12:30 – Social
• 12:30 – 13:30 – Networking Lunch
• 13:30 – 14:30 – Apps
• 14:30 – 15:30 – Demos
• 15:30 – 15:45 – Evening break
• 15:45 – 16:45 – Code Lab 1 – Google
• 16:45 – 17:45 – Code Lab 2 – Google
• 17:45 – 18:00 – Closing

SPEAKERS

Jeremy Orlow (MTV/LON)

Jeremy is an engineer working on the Chrome team...

I attended the recently held PHP Summit 2010 at Rembrandt Hotel, Tomas Morato. I never expected that the crowd is as big as it was. I’m glad to have a chance to learn about PHP and ASP.Net Interoperability and Website Scalability.

I also had a good time with my team mates Gibelle and Jeru and happy to meet a friend from Cebu, Raymond.

Congrats to the PHPUG especially to the volunteers for making the event a success.

I need to implement a web forum. I’m still deciding which among the following open source forums to use:

PHPBB3 - so heavy for a simple forum

Vanilla - very minimal feature

SMF - promising features but I haven’t experienced implementing

Fireboard with Joomla – so heavy that I still have to install complete Joomla CMS just for a forum

I haven’t decided yet. But this site, http://www.forummatrix.org  helped me a lot in the evaluation.

We’ve been working on this Vanilla forum upgrade from v1.1.2 to v 1.1.8  for a certain client since yesterday.  After successfully running Vanilla 1.1.8, we got three issues

• Password hash is now different thus users can’t login anymore using their old password.
• Problem in signing out. Maybe because of the customized theme that we use.
• SEO friendly links to the forum (since it is embedded in a custom website) doesn’t work anymore. I’m still trying to figure out 

I really need help to make it work seamlessly.  I almost spent the whole day working on this simple upgrade.

Our Division Manager and Project Manager as well announced yesterday that we are about to start a new project – a BIG one! This has been awarded to us few months ago but due to some issues, the development was not started right away.

After a meeting with our client, it was agreed that we have to catch up with schedule despite the delay. The approach is, instead of preparing all the necessary documents (SRS, Project Plan, etc.) before starting with the development, we have to create a prototype to be presented next week. Whew! Can we meet the clients expectation?

Let’s see how will DotNetNuke help us achieve this. It’s been more than a year since my last implementation of DNN I used version 4.7 if I’m not mistaken and the recent stable version released was 4.9.

Installation

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