Linux Lab School Project

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It was around end of March when Bacolod TayTung computer lab started to be setup using Linux. The distribution to be used is SkoleLinux a debian based distro. I believe this is my way of extending and evangelizing Linux for kids. Let them learn while they are still at the young age so we will get more Linux users in the future. At the same time, the school benefits a lot in terms of financial charges accumulated by paying MicroSoft licences.

I will get back to Bacolod (City of Smiles) by end of May to see the lab is working and making sure it’s running smoothly for the students when school day starts. Hopefully, other school will follow so they will also save more money on licences. I ask them to please give Linux a try..opps..DON’T just try… USE and LOVE Linux not just because it’s free, but it is also fun and most of all full of things for students to LEARN.

Go Linux for Kids!

Hacking Amazon SQS

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I’ve been working on a simple Amazon SQS to be able to send a thousands of messages and log them to a db to be queried later using a web service. After a few rundown, I tried using typica http://code.google.com/p/typica/ for api to SQS and the Apache Axis2 http://ws.apache.org/axis2/ for the webservice implementation.

I’ve been trying to bundle the app inside an AMI fetching the codes from SVN repository during startup and run the Pollserver and the webservice. The remaining task are MySQL replication inside Amazon EC2, scripts to backup MySQL data to S3 and a simple HTML pages fetching WSDL service results.

Finally, a plan to add the load balancer for my tomcat servers. Hopefully using the Scalr http://code.google.com/p/scalr/ as much as possible. A nice experience working with Amazon AWS.

Get ready for action!