Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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.
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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. […]
Posted in Web on Apr 5th, 2008
One thing that’s been nagging me for a while is the chronically disorganized state of my feeds. I promised myself I’d spend some time rationalizing them before I start my new job. So this morning I did just that while watching Jack at soccer. I’ve been playing with several feed readers over the years (Thunderbird, […]
Posted in Google on Feb 28th, 2008
Maybe I’m the last to notice but Google StreetView now covers Raleigh / Cary - including the abode of yours truly and including our Halloween decorations and an immortalized Bradford Pear tree that we had felled (shame on us).
Boy am I glad I didn’t get caught fetching the WSJ in my pajamas. Oh, I just […]
Posted in Enterprise, Google on Feb 28th, 2008
Over a year after acquiring JotSpot, Google have just announced the launch of Google Sites - currently available as a Google Apps service and therefore aimed at organizations rather than individuals.
I had a very quick look this morning and it’s pretty nice (and pretty free) - it really pulls together the other services […]