Amazon EC2 Basic Monitoring
Amazon has recently added basic monitoring to all Amazon EC2 instances. Before this change, you had to sign-up for Amazon CloudWatch to get any monitoring. Basic monitoring allows you to…
Firefox Memory Restart
Firefox has a history of using up a lot of memory when used for a long time or when used with many open tabs. Mozilla support and mozillaZine both recommend…
Migrating from HttpClient 3.1 to HttpClient 4.0
We were using Apache HttpClient 3.1 for some time now and have decide to bite the bullet and migrate over to HttpClient 4.0.3. It's usually painless to update Apache libraries, but…