mark_l_watson
- Advice on stuck EC2s: 'ec2-detach-volume --force ..' to release EBSs, ignore stuck EC2: no billing for them and they eventually go away.about 11 hours ago from web
- Someone at Amazon gave me good advice to working around "stuck" EC2 instances. I am now "un-annoyed" :-)about 11 hours ago from web
- Has now been 4 hours since a EC2instance got stuck on EMS volume errors and I tried to shut it down. Amazon needs a 'kill it now' option.about 24 hours ago from web
- Hmm - my stuck EC2 instance still has not terminated as requested after 1 hour - logs report mucho errors on EBS volumes. Need to unplug :-)4:01 PM Nov 9th from web
- Hmm. I just had an EC2 instance become unresponsive, and shutting it down did not free the mounted EBS - this is why you need EBS snapshots3:11 PM Nov 9th from web
- One advantage MonoDB has over CouchDB is sort-of OK authentication that works out of the box with a few minutes setup. Big CouchDB problem.2:38 PM Nov 9th from web
- Bummer: Jerry Weinberg's medical condition. His early book 'Egoless Programmer' had a fine effect on my career. His later books: also good.1:05 PM Nov 9th from web
- Just finished writing a DevX article on writing Wave Robots in Java - fun stuff!11:58 AM Nov 9th from web
- Latex symbols guide: - I feel sorry for people who like to write, but don't use Latex8:24 AM Nov 8th from web
- Nice: JRuby 1.4.0 final is released :-)2:33 PM Nov 4th from web
- Using Amazon AWS (EC2, EBS, etc.): after a while, it gets to be like driving a car: you don't think about driving, just your destination :-)8:54 AM Nov 4th from web
- Rinari: the keyboard shortcuts for navigating Rails projects: 7:33 AM Nov 1st from web
- Rinari: 7:31 AM Nov 1st from web
- The Rinari Rails tools for Emacs are good - tried them last night. Good when switching between OS X/Ubuntu (lighter weight than RubyMine)7:31 AM Nov 1st from web
- Wow - Chromium browser is fast on Ubuntu 9.1011:13 PM Oct 31st from web
- Awesomely good talk on Hadoop + Pig (use cases at Twitter)10:45 AM Oct 31st from web
- Working on a DevX article on Wave programming with some new ideas - there are already good online tutorials, so I want to add something new.10:27 AM Oct 31st from web
- My wife and I are helping a friend of a friend process hidef of her Yoga classes for kids -- she used to be a super model, vids look great8:30 AM Oct 31st from web
- Great example use of RDFa (view source)9:49 PM Oct 29th from web
- Getting some light snow up in the mountains. cool :-) Good weather for writing code.2:37 PM Oct 28th from web
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- Name mark_l_watson
- Location Sedona Arizona
- Web http://markwatson...
- Bio I am an author of 16 books (Java, artificial intelligence, Linux, etc.) and a Ruby/Java consultant
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