Installing Percona XtraDB Cluster (Beta) on CentOS 6.2 (EC2)

Percona recently released the beta version of their MySQL cluster offering. Percona XtraDB Cluster (Beta). Features: Synchronous replication Multi-master replication support Parallel replication Automatic node provisioning I've been using Percona XtraDB Server as a replacement for regular old plain MySQL deployments more and more recently. And I have to say…

Updated: Installing Zimbra 7.0 (ZCS) on an EC2 instance

Zimbra can be installed on an Amazon AWS EC2 instance. However there are a few hoops you'll have to jump through to get it functioning properly. Namely, resizing an AMI image and configuring DNS correctly. Setup your Amazon AWS Account If you don't already have an Amazon Web Services account…

BBM, Twitter, Social Media, and the London riots.

The last few days has seen London experience some of the worst rioting, looting, and violence I've seen in my (short) lifetime. The majorty of which seems to have been perpetrated by a specific age group. Youths. Ranging from those as young as 10, to those in their late 20s…