Monthly Archives: March 2008

Paul Graham's How to Disagree

Posted on March 31, 2008 by James Murty

Paul Graham has written a short yet striking article, How to Disagree, which could help us all improve the tone and content of debates we pursue online. He classifies comments expressing disagreement into a Disagreement Hierarchy with seven levels, from … Continue reading →

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Elastra provides support for RDBMS in the cloud

Posted on March 29, 2008 by James Murty

ELASTRA recently announced their ELASTRA Cloud Server product, a server application that aims to make it significantly easier to design and deploy cloud-based applications.

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Thirty

Posted on March 28, 2008 by James Murty

262,992 hours. 10,958 days. 1,565 weeks. 1 lifetime. But who’s counting…

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New EC2 API released (2008-02-01): Elastic IPs and User Selectable Kernels

Posted on March 27, 2008 by James Murty

Amazon has released the latest version of the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) API: 2008-02-01. This release includes a number of new features, two of which are very interesting: Elastic IP Addresses and User Selectable Kernels.

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Programming Amazon Web Services is published

Posted on March 26, 2008 by James Murty

I am pleased to announce that my book Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS and SimpleDB is now officially published and should soon be available from booksellers. It will hopefully prove to be a valuable resource for people … Continue reading →

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Amazon is planning to add "copy" support to S3

Posted on March 22, 2008 by James Murty

Amazon AWS developers are planning to add a new “copy” feature to the Simple Storage Service (S3) API that will make it possible to copy your data objects to a new location in the service. This feature could be used … Continue reading →

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