Today is a fantastic day for advocates of cloud computing in Australia (and the whole Asia Pacific region actually). Finally the Asia Pacific region has a presence for cloud computing (not just cloud content).
Great job Amazon. In the past few years the lack of a geographically close (and thus virtually closer) hasn’t worried me too much, but as I am now starting an Australian software development company that provides services in the cloud – it does.
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posted on the April 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Google’s AppEngine is not a CDN (or Content Delivery Network).
How do I know this? Well I’m in a process of setting up a new site in anticipation of going out and doing my own thing (nothing finalized quite yet). While not really the point of this article it was the trigger for investigating AppEngine performance with regards to load times of resource files (images, css, etc).
While the results aren’t suprising, it definitely highlights the continued need for a CDN (even if you read the occasional post that tries to tell you that using AppEngine as a CDN is possible).
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posted on the March 2nd, 2010 8 Comments »
Let me start by saying this is in no way an in-depth comparison of these two excellent cloud based hosting services. It should serve, however, as a good resource to help you determine which of the options is better suited to your needs at a high level, and point you in the right direction for further investigation.
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posted on the February 26th, 2010 No Comments »
With last week’s release of Sidewiki, there have been a quite a few discussions around whether it is a good or bad thing for blogs and sites in general. Whether it is the right way to go about implementing a global commenting system, etc, etc.
Whether it is or isn’t doesn’t really worry too much – my thoughts are around what can be done with the API.
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posted on the September 28th, 2009 No Comments »
I actually had to make a new article category to capture the coolness of this great new web application. It pretty much gets a tick in the box for each of the criteria on the “Super Cool WebApp” checklist (which admittedly I am only just formally noting down now).
So what is Thounds? Well read on…
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posted on the September 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Man, Gist is good. It’s basically the tool you have been waiting for to help you get on top of noise that is social media.
I would say that noise is pretty much deafening, not deafening in the way that makes you want to lock yourself in a room (well sometimes maybe) – maybe noise is not the right word. It is more like the deafening you experience when you go to a concert or gig and everything else just seems to disappear. When you are busy networking, other goals and objectives can simply cease to be…
So how does Gist help?
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posted on the September 6th, 2009 2 Comments »
I’m currently on a quest for a desktop environment that is lean enough to run on my MSI Wind netbook, but scales up nicely to a multi-monitor desktop environment. Now I’ve sucessfully installed Ubuntu on the netbook but haven’t really taken the next step on getting it running the various programming environments I’m used to working with. Currently I’m stuck in a world of a heavyweight IDE (eclipse) that really doesn’t scale well to the small screen of the netbook.
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posted on the July 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
I am beginning to get some laughs out of the raft of tweets about “Google Wave is like product x, combined with product y (with a bit of product z thrown in)”. It’s only natural that people try to liken it to other things they have seen (and I know I’m doing the same thing). I think the reality is that it’s actually quite a bit different from anything we have seen before (like the afore mentioned radioactive dancing squirrel for instance).
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posted on the June 1st, 2009 2 Comments »
So Google announced Google Wave a few days ago and it’s a very interesting and great re-thinking of email and web-based communication and collaboration in general. In terms of personal use, I think it is great. Additionally, the potential for use in the corporate world is absolutely immense. One of the big barriers to corporate adoption I see is the question “Who owns the wave?”.
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posted on the May 31st, 2009 No Comments »
After making a move across to using Git instead of subversion, I was desperately in need of a cheat sheet of all the commands that were available in git. Thankfully github have an excellent reference page for using Git. Additionally on this page is a gem of a single-page reference for Git by Zack Rusin.
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posted on the May 31st, 2009 No Comments »
