Monthly Archives: June 2009

AWS Management Console: Now with CloudFront

Posted on June 23, 2009 by James Murty

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.

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OpenID Delegation: Why and How

Posted on June 16, 2009 by James Murty

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, … Continue reading →

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XMLBuilder Version 0.3: XPath, Parsing and Maven Goodies

Posted on June 11, 2009 by James Murty

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 … Continue reading →

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Real-world cloud computing

Posted on June 8, 2009 by James Murty

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 … Continue reading →

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IPython with Python version 2.6 on OS X Leopard

Posted on June 5, 2009 by James Murty

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 … Continue reading →

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