How to get started in the Cloud

Here’s a presentation by the CEO of GoGrid at CloudWorld09. He discussed:

• What is Cloud Computing – The Cloud Pyramid
• The Benefits of Cloud Computing & Hybrid Hosting
• What can Cloud Computing do for me and my business
• The Competitive Landscape & Key Differentiators
• Cost Savings of Cloud Computing – pay only for what you need
• How to determine when to utilize Cloud Computing
• How should you get started using the Cloud?
• How to identify what to put in the cloud first (more…)

web-based screen capture/recording tool

As simple as it is to create a video and share it with the world (aka screencasting), I feel that technology for creating a recording of one’s desktop interactions (combined with audio) is still somewhat limited. Camtasia is probably the better known desktop/screen recording application. However it only works on Windows. Same goes for the open-source Camstudio. I did find a couple screen recording tools for the Mac. (more…)

X-Forwarded-For log filtering

The “X-Forwarded-For” is a HTTP header commonly used to pass the original client ip address as the web request traverses through reverse proxy servers. Furthermore, to truly capture the request ip address, the web server must be configured to record the ip address from the X-Forward-For header. If not, the log file will simply show that all requests are coming from the reverse proxy servers that frontend the web servers. (more…)