“I don’t have time” is an excuse.

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Sometimes people say they don’t have time for something. And I think, yes you do. You didn’t want to have enough time to do it. We all have time for exactly what we want to have time for. I know I’m not the first person to say this but I think it’s an important thing people need to realize, especially …

Having trouble moving from AWS t1.micro to t2.mico instances

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In case you haven’t heard, AWS released t2.micro instances that are cheaper and more awesome than the existing t1.micro instances. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/low-cost-burstable-ec2-instances/ But I had some trouble initially moving to these new instances types. Amazon’s error messages are not always helpful. Even though they’re supposed to support changing instance types from t1.micro to t2.micro. I got the following error message: The …

How I test disk performance

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Testing disk performance is not a trivial task. And I’m not an authoritative source on how to do it. However that doesn’t mean I can’t try to be! The reason that testing disk performance isn’t trivial is because it depends on what you care about. “What do you mean? I want to know if my disk is fast or slow.” …

Wow, a blog!

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Not to be confused with Sam Ruby. I’ve decided that instead of hoarding my notes on problems I found ironically too difficult to figure out, that I’ll start writing them here and maybe they will help someone else. That seems like a good thing to do. A little about me: I’m a C# ASP.NET developer and I like it a …