I set up my own micro instance on EC2 this morning. Just because noone is paying me to develop in the cloud does not mean I can’t do it. Eventuall, I might be able to migrate my hippeelee.com over to here if the price is right. We will see, it is hard to see how much it costs to run an instance with low traffic. But, this instance will give me a place to point to on a portfolio. I am calling it boxer and it is proprty of Hipsoft Logic - My consulting company that helps develop and maintain web software. I also generated the html with latex2html for my resume and I am not a fan. I think I should just hand code the resume into json and use it like that. Perhaps it is better to start with the data and find a place to store it. Then fill in the latex template dynamically and generate pdf that way. The data will me more mallable that way if it is centrally stored and distributed via json. json can go to the web, I can use json in code to dynamically generate the resume.tex file and turn it into pdf. I didn’t like the markup latext2html spit out. Scrap that, moving on I am putting the data into JSON and will see what I can do with that livecoding in the browser. I got mongrel2 to install and compile on the micro ec2 instance. Yay. Next step - start it up and serve a static html page (my resume? sure, why not :-) ) Then, hook rails into it and put the resume stuff into a database.
1/18/2012 ~ 2 min read
