Contemplating the brave new present
Posted in Other on Mar 31st, 2008
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 insults and ad hominem attacks at the bottom through to counterarguments and reasoned refutation of [...]
Posted in AWS on Mar 29th, 2008
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.
262,992 hours.
10,958 days.
1,565 weeks.
1 lifetime.
But who’s counting…
Posted in AWS on Mar 27th, 2008
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.
Posted in AWS, O'Reilly Book on Mar 26th, 2008
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 who are building applications on top of Amazon’s infrastructure services, or who are considering doing [...]
Posted in AWS on Mar 22nd, 2008
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 to rename objects you have already stored (copy to a new name), to relocate them [...]