Tips for building web services on Amazon AWS

Amazon, who are most widely known for their online shop, has another project called Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering website authors a collection of very powerful hosting tools as well as hybrid cloud services. This is not a sideline for Amazon – a recent conversation I had with an Amazon guy I met at a Barcamp revealed […]

Marcus Povey

Amazon, who are most widely known for their online shop, has another project called Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering website authors a collection of very powerful hosting tools as well as hybrid cloud services. This is not a sideline for Amazon – a recent conversation I had with an Amazon guy I met at a Barcamp revealed […]

How to set up ProFTP, MySQL and Virtual Users

ProFTP is a configurable FTP server available on most *nix platforms. I recently had the need to get this working and authenticating off a PHP maintained MySQL backend, and this post is primarily to aid my own memory should I ever have to do it again. Installing ProFTP In order to use MySQL as a […]

Marcus Povey

ProFTP is a configurable FTP server available on most *nix platforms. I recently had the need to get this working and authenticating off a PHP maintained MySQL backend, and this post is primarily to aid my own memory should I ever have to do it again. Installing ProFTP In order to use MySQL as a […]

Multiple site support with MP’s Multisite Elgg

Latest: Elgg Multisite is still active and has moved on to Github. Go join in! I have just Open Sourced an “itch scratching” project I’ve been hacking on for a little while. So, without much further ado, I’d like to introduce you to Marcus Povey’s Multisite Elgg! It is currently in Beta and the code […]

Marcus Povey

Latest: Elgg Multisite is still active and has moved on to Github. Go join in! I have just Open Sourced an “itch scratching” project I’ve been hacking on for a little while. So, without much further ado, I’d like to introduce you to Marcus Povey’s Multisite Elgg! It is currently in Beta and the code […]