Installing PHP 7 on Amazon Linux.  Quick and easy!

Installing PHP 7 on Amazon Linux. Quick and easy!

So PHP 7 has been available since late last year.  This is the first major release since PHP 5 came out in 2004.  Yes, it took eleven years.  It’s not like it was abandoned, its just that things took a very winding path.  Notice that we went from version 5 to...
HTTPS Everywhere, for free!  The new Certificate Manager.

HTTPS Everywhere, for free! The new Certificate Manager.

(Well, sorta free) If you’re anywhere around the web infrastructure world, then you’re likely familiar with the push for HTTPS everywhere.  In the name of privacy, consumers and all sorts of privacy groups are demanding that websites communicate using...
HTTPS Everywhere, for free!  The new Certificate Manager.

Amazon Web Services: Automate EC2 Backups

Today we will be talking about automating EC2 backups.  Backups are boring and no one ever cares about them.  Until you need them.  It’s at that point that you wish you had setup some sort of automated backup system, because life goes by too quickly to do...
Twilio, Lockitron, and Evernote: Build Your Own SMS Control

Twilio, Lockitron, and Evernote: Build Your Own SMS Control

  I recently purchased a Lockitron internet connected door lock.  The lock itself is pretty neat, but not without it’s problems.  I funded the Kickstarter campaign for this thing about two years ago.  I just recently received the lock.  So to say they have...