This short guide is for Ubuntu Linux but can work on any distro. (just use your distro's package manager).
first of all make sure that your Amazon account have SES enabled and that your account is authorised to use the full service.
the default after adding SES to your account is sandbox mode.
install stunnel4 and postfix:
apt-get install stunnel4 postfix
We recently had a client request to search inside user's uploaded Documents for some online tenders.
Dupal's apachesolr and apachesolr_attachments modules with Apache's solr do the work but we have an exotic language and.. exotic challenges...
When extracting text from the uploaded PDFs - the uploaded Hebrew PDF indexes the words backwards (not being aware to Right To Left text)...
We started using GIT SCM for all the new development projects.
GIT's advantages are widely discussed elsewhere- it is fast, efficient, and is a DVCS.
The reason that is important is that it's much faster than SVN and the branching is so easy you don't think about it much as you develop (much less SVN merge drama :) )