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Hacking The AWS:EC2 Load Balancing Service Zone Apex CNAME Restriction w/ Win2k3 and Unbound
June 16 2009
I assume that many of you who may have interest in Amazon Web Services and, in particular, their EC2 Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch services, will likely only visit the support forums on an as-needed basis. As such, I... read moreOn Trademarks and Open Source Software
May 11 2009
I couldn't say it any better than this, so I'm going to let a recent post from Reuven Cohen speak for itself: As the founder of an open source cloud computing product company my concern with combining open source and... read more[AWS:EC2] EC2 Reserved Instances Launched In EU Data Center
April 15 2009
As per a recent post to the EC2 forums, there's now support for reserved instances inside the EC2 EU Data Center. read moreIn NYC Tonight: An Eclectic Evening of Electric Energy Awaits
April 08 2009
This last Saturday I had an amazing experience: I got a phone call from Ian Edgar from EclecticMethod at around 2pm MDT. I'd never met Ian before. In fact, before that moment I had never spoken with Ian. We'd never... read moreNo Fooling Around, (ASP.NET_MVC = (OSS) => OSS.MS-PL) == true
April 02 2009
Furthering their effort to "Make Web Not War.", today Microsoft announced the release of the ASP.NET MVC Framework under the OSI approved MS-PL OSS license. read more[AWS:ElasticMapReduce] Google-sized Parallel Computing on a You-sized Budget
April 02 2009
@ http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/ you'll find an interesting new entry into Amazon's utility-based web service offerings: Elastic MapReduce. read moreAWS:EC2 Introduces Reserved Instances; Massive Potential Cost Reduction
March 12 2009
What's the best way to jump start a stalling economy? Provide reasons for people to spend money by reducing costs for goods they're already paying for, freeing up capital to be invested into places they otherwise would not be invested into. Enter Amazon Web Services and the introduction of EC2… read moreMarch 04 2009
In a seemingly bold move by Amazon, on Wednesday support for the Kindle e-book format will become available to iPhone owners via a freely downloadable application. But this shouldn't really come as any shock: Amazon is simply doing what they've always done: Looked to the bigger picture as their guiding… read more[AWS:EC2] Windows Gains EC2:EU Support; Additional US Availability Zone
March 03 2009
As per the recent announcement in the AWS:EC2 forums, Amazon Web Services has beefed up their support of Windows 2k3, adding an additional availability zone in the U.S. as well as extending support via two availability zones to EC2:EU. read moreWhat Do Software Development and Toyota Have In Common?
February 02 2009
At present time, nothing, which is exactly what Scott Bellware has recently described as a significant and gaping hole in our industry: We have a gaping human resource hole in our software product development organizations through which incredible value continues... read moreJanuary 27 2009
whurley has a /brilliant/ idea: Bring the power and capabilities of cloud computing to the higher education masses by creating a national computing cloud. But will leveling the high tech education playing field with a national computing cloud bring about a high tech revolution? Or is it just one more… read moreJanuary 22 2009
While I have no clue what, if any, our "Petition To Get Chris Sells To Host Another SellsCon Before The End Of 2008" (from five days short of a year ago) had to do with his decision to put on... read moreTomorrow's Come: A Tribute To Change
January 20 2009
They say code is poetry. So then is poetry code? Not sure, but that's my justification for posting this on my O'Reilly blog. My apologies to those in whom feel this is out of place on a technical blog. But... read moreCitizenSchools.org: A Worthwhile Cause Worthy of Your Vote
January 01 2009
When I was in Boston this last September I was fortunate enough to be introduced to John Werner, one of the founders of http://citizenschools.org/, by John Palfrey who thought I could be helpful in helping John achieve success with Citizen Schools on the Web 2.0 front. John has a chance… read moreDoes Java Run Faster On .NET VM and Windows Azure?
December 20 2008
Looking for ways to tweak the performance of your Java applications? Look no further than the .NET platform and Windows Azure. read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
