Tiernans Comms Closet

So, this morning Amazon has announced that your can set the Root Object of a CloudFront distribution. this now means that you can have an index.htm file (like the front page of this blog) hosted, and tell Amazon to host that when someone goes to the main page. and since you can use a CNAME [...]

So, with the event of Amazon’s Cloud Front and RackSpace Cloud’s Cloud Files (with the backing of Limelight Networks) the world and its mother can now use cheap and cherfull CDNs for hosting images, CSS and JS files for their blogs. but what about the rest of the blog?
In theory, a blog is 99% static. [...]

So, a few days ago, i was talking with some colleagues about printers and DIY printing of your photos, and the consensus was pretty much Don’t DIY, outsource. and it started making me think about my current in-house systems, hosting, etc. so, this is the basis of what this post it about.
Current setup in house
i [...]

So, today at the Mobile World Congress, Microsoft unvailed the Windows Phone Series 7. This is the next generation of Windows Phone devices. So, some quick links and some screen shots from around the web:

There is a hands on Demo over at Channel 9 of the Windows Phone 7 Series.  the OS is VERY SWEET! [...]

So, we are 2 weeks into the new year (give or take a few hours as of writing this) and i am already starting to think about upgrades… some are more likely than others… but here are my thoughts for the new year and upgrades…

Phones: So, i have had my G1 for a while now [...]

So, i have been looking at Data De-Duplication, and have built a little demo app in C# for this idea… The code is on GitHub and if you have better ideas around the code, please leave comments or update the block.
This code is not intended for Production use. it is purely experimental!
One idea i [...]

Right. so OSNews has a post asking users to post their setup they are currently using… I was going to post a comment with mine, but though it would take up too much space… so, here is mine. Leave a comment if you wish with your setup…
Main workstation: There was a series of posts about [...]

In yesterday’s Budget, the Irish government added a EUR15 per tonn of CO2 tax to companies… Some quick maths!
burning a Liter of Petrol produces 2.39KG of CO2 Per Liter burned. diesel = 2.62KG / L
that means for Petrol, you would need to burn 418.4 L to produce a Tonn of CO2 (381.6 for [...]

So, i have been busy working on code for Torrent Helper (still looking for a proper name and URL) and one of the things i wanted to add was a version number footer… ust for the laugh, just cause i could… But how? So, this is how you do it…
First, you need to modify the [...]

Today i would like to announce the release of Torrent Helper, a website i started coding about 19 hours ago (as of time of writing this post at 6pm on Satrday). The coding of this project started at 11PM on Friday, and took a short break at 6am for some sleep… It was officially released (with [...]