links for 2011-06-06

• Alex Payne — All We Will Ever Have
  "“Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have."
  (tags: quotes al3x)
• Behind the Project: Pic A Fight — PaulStamatiou.com
  the making of a simple web app, complete with list of languages used, etc...

  Pic A Fight was built on:
  -Ruby 1.9.2 with RVM and Rails 3
  -hosted on several Amazon EC2 micro instances (we spun up 5 during load)
  -with an Amazon elastic load balancer instance
  -using Amazon RDS (it's like a database instance) for our MySQL store and with images hosted via Instagram's Amazon S3.

  
  
  (tags: howto design)