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dholowiski

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Email: david@holowiski.com http://holowiski.com Hire me. -Dave Holowiski
  1. Backing up a web server to S3 with Duplicity (thevagabondgeek.com)
    1 points 0
  2. Show HN: moo.bz - Google Universal Analytics integrated URL Shortener

    The problem: If you're posting a link to a site that doesn't have your own Google Analytics code on it, you can't track clicks on to that link within Google Analytics. Solution: Shorten the URL with moo.bz and provide…

    1 points 0
  3. Ask HN: Need for a RSS/API relay service?

    On my current project, I will be pulling in many different feeds and talking to many API's. It occurred to me that it would be smart to 'launder' these requests though a relay, (AWS) so that if I accidentally do…

    1 points 0
  4. Moving from Heroku to your own server (thevagabondgeek.com)
    6 points 1
  5. Ask HN: Open Source Digital Signage software?

    Is there any good open source (preferably Linux based) digital signage software out there? I've been looking and all I can find are a few small projects, and super-expensive commercial solutions. I need a back end CMS…

    1 points 0
  6. Ask HN: What physical thing would you build?

    What would you love to build, if neither money nor skill/knowledge was an issue?

    4 points 14
  7. A Helpdesk software manifesto (thevagabondgeek.com)
    1 points 0
  8. Freshdesk Wants To Make Customer Service Fun With Game Mechanics (m.techcrunch.com)
    2 points 3
  9. Ask HN: what would you do with a gigabit Internet connection?

    What new things could you do, with a symmetrical gigabit Internet connection? Or maybe you live in one of the Kansas Cities, what are you going to do with your gigabit Internet connection?

    5 points 6
  10. Black Hat SEO powered by Amazon Mechanical Turk (thevagabondgeek.com)
    3 points 0
  11. CentOS/RHEL yum groupinstall basics (thevagabondgeek.com)
    2 points 0
  12. Amazon book prices by SMS (My weekend Project) (prce.me)
    2 points 4
  13. Ask HN: What's your favourite API?

    What web API do you find the most useful? Which one provides really good information or allows you to make amazing things happen?

    9 points 8
  14. Ask HN: Google safebrowsing lists cloudfront.net as distributing malware?

    http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=cloudfront.net/ Cloudfront.net is the domain used by Amazon AWS's Cloudfront service, is listed in Google's 'safebrowsing' as distributing malware. Due to this, one of our…

    1 points 0
  15. Ask HN: How many active users does Google (search, not plus) have?

    Facebook claims 800+ million 'active users'. I'm wondering how Google compares to that. Not google Plus, but Google search.

    1 points 0
  16. Ask HN: Suggestions to handle 1000x traffic?

    I manage a web site that runs on a CMS on a typical LAMP stack (AWS, Cloudfront). Next week, it's possible our site traffic might go up to several million unique views per day, for about 5 days. Aside from 'boot more…

    6 points 7
  17. Ask HN: Where to register alternate TLD's?

    I need to register a .gs domain name. Namecheap doesn't do .gs, and neither do the other registrars that I regularly use. The only one I can think of right now is the elephant killing, SOPA supporting registrar we all…

    1 points 0
  18. My RepRap build, day 1 (thevagabondgeek.com)
    2 points 0
  19. Ask HN: Post your Favorite Twitter Lists here

    Post a link to your favorite Twitter list - programming or not, below.

    1 points 0
  20. Ask HN: Book Recommendation for Ajax/Rails?

    I've been coding in Ruby on Rails and PHP for a while, and have a very light level of Javascript knowledge. I'd like to learn more about Ajax in general, as well as Javascript Integration with Rails, and I'm looking for…

    1 points 0
  21. Ask HN: AWS Cloud Event announcement tomorrow

    I assume all AWS customers got this invite for the Amazon Web Services cloud event happening on the 18th - the tag line is "Find out what's next in the AWS Cloud". Any speculation as to what they're announcing? I don't…

    2 points 2
  22. I re-arrange bits for a living (plus.google.com)
    1 points 0
  23. US Gov't to close 1,200 Data Centers (datacenterknowledge.com)
    3 points 1
  24. Tell hn:what did you overcome in 2011?

    My small business failed, I broke my arm and sliced my finger open resulting in 6 stitche and a permanent loss of feeling in that finger. I was diagnosed with incurable acid reflux, and am in the process of being…

    8 points 0
  25. Correlation or Causation? (businessweek.com)
    4 points 1