Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 2008
I haven’t actually read a book, any book for about 5 years. I use audio books exclusively – from iTunes or Audible. The main reason is convenience – I find I can listen to an Audio book much more frequently than I can dip into paperback. Driving, walking, at the gym, loading the dishwasher. I [...]
Posted in TabSweep on Jun 23rd, 2008
Office neighbour Aaron Darcy chatting with Cote from Redmonk about our JBoss on Amazon EC2 beta.
No sooner was the ink dry on the annoucement – the JBoss Portal team show you how to get JBoss Portal running in the cloud as well – which, as you would expect, is like running JBoss Portal anywhere else.
Our [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2008
I’ve been involved in middleware long enough to remember when it could easily cost $75k just to get up and running with a Java application server (hardware and software licenses). How far things have come – as of today you can use Amazon EC2 to run JBoss instances so your capital investment is approximately zero; [...]
A couple of related articles hit my (nicely organized) feed reader this morning. First, Tim Bray paints a bleak picture of Google’s Developer Platform – some concerns I shared earlier. Meanwhile CogHead are in the news with their Open Definition model – an attempt to build an open and collaborative environment for CogHead customers. Interesting [...]
Yesterday Google announced Google App Engine – essentially a competitor to AWS (Amazon Web Services) providing storage, execution and secure, reliable “web I/O”. Right now – you have to write your apps. in Python;but they also provide Django (web app framework for Python) – which is pretty neat from the little I’ve seen of it. [...]