ChangeLog – Jon Chase's blog

I’ve been trying to get a PDF to embed inside of a Web page for most of the day, but I’ve been having problems with most browsers. In IE, the area where the PDF should be is just a blank white box. In Safari, a dialog pops up asking me if I’d like [...]

I just stumbled across CyTunes.org, a music download site that gives every penny it earns to cancer research. All of the music on the site is original and can’t be found anywere else (take that, iTunes!). Here’s a write up about the inspriational story behind the site.By the way, I came across CyTunes [...]

I just put this list of helpful links together for the Triangle microISV Group, so I figured I’d post them here too.

Speaking of the group, we had our first meeting on Wednesday and it went really well. I think we had 14 people show up, all of whom were friendly and great to [...]

This is a quick shout out to the good folks at EAPPS for doing a great job (their support) and providing a bang up service (their hosting).
I use EAPPS for hosting this domain (juliesoft.com) and SendAlong. So far, I only have good things to say about them. They’re really fast with answering [...]

I had my first experience with coworking last week. All in all, it was very positive and I will definitely be going back for more.
I went to Carrboro Creative Coworking (CCC), which is located in Carrboro in a little office park, not far from Franklin Street. Brian (the owner) has done a great [...]

If you live in the Triangle area in North Carolina, you might want to attend the Triangle microISV Group’s first meeting on Wednesday, January 21st at 7pm. We’ll be meeting at the Panera Bread at the Southpoint Mall right off of 40 (directions).
I started this group because I know there are a lot of smart [...]

Skybus is officially closed – as of, well, right now (thanks for the advance notice). I bet they wanted to do this April 1st but were afraid that no one would have taken it seriously.
The official announcement:
Skybus Airlines will cease all operations effective Saturday, April 5.
Skybus struggled to overcome the combination of rising [...]

I just had a blast catching up on RSS feeds over lunch – except I couldn’t tell what news was real and what was fake.
Here are some of my favorites from today, and a few from the past. The funniest ones are in bold.

SQL on Rails (you must watch the screencast)
The Commentator – automatically [...]

This is great news for any Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) developer – up until this point, hosting web sites on EC2 has been a little tricky due to the fact that EC2 instances used dynamic IPs – making it tough to set up reliable load balancing and failover in the face of ever-changing IP [...]

I know I’m going to, just for the cool fish on the cover and the unbelievably long title: Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB.
Via Amazon Web Services Blog.