How to host a Minecraft Server on Amazon Web Services AWS

In this post, I will run through the steps necessary to host a Minecraft Server using Amazon’s Web Service (AWS) platform.  In particular, we will be using the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service to create and launch a Windows server in the cloud.  After you’ve got this set up, your server can be used [...]

Help Setting Up a Local Development Environment

I’m a ColdFusion developer and I maintain my own servers.  I’ve always just worked directly on the servers (via FTP) when developing new apps.  I want to get away from this.  I want do what all other developers do… set up a local development environment on my laptop.But here’s the problem… ARGH.  It never [...]

Linksys WRT54GL Router Hack

Well, I decided not to hack my new Linksys WRT54GL router.  Why, you ask?  I’ll tell you, sparky.  Because it works so friggin’ great right out of the box.

Last night I ripped my Netgear router and Netgear PCI adapter out of my network and installed the Linksys gear instead.  Huge difference.  Rock solid, [...]

Linksys Router Linux Hack

My current Netgear router and/or adapter is causing us serious wireless grief.  It has worked fine for more than a year.  As you may know, a few posts ago I realized that MAC Address filtering alone is not a significant security barrier.  Research allowed me to learn that WPA is the preferred method of [...]