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HOW-TO install MySQL on an Amazon AWS Server using EBS

I am using an Amazon Linux AIM so the steps below assume this is the kind of image you have. Most of the steps below actually should work on any Linux server.
It is interesting to use an EBS filesystem so your data is persisted even after termination of your server instance. Using the instance filesystem to store data from MySQL should not be interesting for a database server, as all your data would be lost in case of termination of your instance.

How-to install Ruby and Rails on a Amazon EC2 Server

To install Ruby and Rails on your Amazon EC2 server there are a few steps you need to follow, but none of them quite hard. By default ruby is already installed on your server by Amazon - check it by running $ ruby -v.

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i386-linux]

HOW-TO read the Request Content using PHP

After searching a little bit for a simple way to read the request parameters sent to the server, I normally found references telling people to use the apache_request_headers() or the getAllHeaders() (which is actually a wrapper for the previous one) function, but these will only work if you are running php as an apache module. Well, this is not the case for me, as I use Locaweb (a famous hosting service in Brazil).

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