Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

7 Quick Tips Learned While Creating WeddingWare

With this blog post, I am pleased to announce that A Few Guys Coding has created a service with a different twist. Wedding customs and traditions are changing all the time. Whether it is the customs, music, the attire or even certain colors such as a wedding I once went to that had black and [...]

A Survey on Resource Management and Allocation Techniques in Autonomic Distributed Systems

Abstract— With the Internet becoming a major resource for many individuals, business, universities and countries, there is an increasing amount of traffic on the Internet.  Some applications available on the Internet need to be able to provide stringent performance guarantees from their web servers (such as online securities trading).  Due to the fact that Internet [...]

HttpSession and Google App Engine

I recently spent a good amount of time trying to figure out why I could not retreive an object from a session that I had previously stored.  After doing a little thinking, I came up with the answer and I hope this saves someone else an immense amount of time.  There is one setup item [...]

A Practical Survey of Search Engine Optimization Techniques

This research article was co-authored by David Stites (dstites[at]uccs.edu) and Jonathan Snyder (jsynder4[at]uccs.edu) Abstract—A common problem for many web sites is appearing as a high ranking in search engines.  Many searchers make quick decisions about which result they will choose and unless a web site appears within a certain threshold of the top rankings, the [...]

Backing up to Amazon S3 with Ruby s3fs

I recently came across a problem of needing to create incremental backups to a remote site for my server in the case of a failure. Since my VPS provider didn’t provide this as a service (paid or free), I had to come up with a different solution. This solution assumes that you are using Ubuntu [...]