Contemplating the brave new present
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing on Jun 23rd, 2009
Amazon’s AWS Management Console now supports the company’s CloudFront service, a CDN-like extension for the Simple Storage Service (S3).
You can read about this new feature on the AWS Blog and watch an introductory video here.
The great promise of the OpenID specification is that it can simplify identity management on the ‘net. At its best, OpenID provides three great features:
Unified Identity
A single account (identity) with which you can log in to many sites, removing the need to create and remember a separate username/login for every web site you interact with.
Openness
A [...]
I have updated my small java-xmlbuilder project with some nice new features.
First, here’s a reminder of what this project does:
XML Builder is a utility that creates simple XML documents using relatively sparse Java code.
It is intended to allow for quick and painless creation of XML documents where you might otherwise be tempted to use concatenated [...]
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing on Jun 8th, 2009
An interesting post with some drawbacks of cloud computing and EC2, from those in the trenches: Real-world cloud computing.
There are some real gems here, such as:
[They all] used Amazon services, and most if not all of them seemed to use RightScale to manage them.
Cost: cloud is more expensive than real machines. Cloud is good for [...]
I recently installed the excellent IPython program, a beefed-up Python console that provides a raft of extra features over the default interpreter and makes it even more of a pleasure to work with this language.
When you install IPython on Mac OS X Leopard using the standard method, it only installs against the system’s default version [...]