…Friday's 2pm session entitled " Building Robust Systems With Google Compute Engine".
For more information about how to get started, please see the following:
Sign up for Google Compute Engine
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- High Scalability: C is for Compute - Google Compute Engine (GCE)
- coderrr: What to do when Google PR0s your business
I recently wrote about the updates coming soon to Hosted Chef. In particular I described a brand-new permissions manager then scheduled to be deployed the evening of 5/8. This deploy did not occur. We chose to re-schedule due to the last minute discovery of a subtle and hard-to-isolate bug arising from the interaction between Hosted Chef back-end systems.
Delaying the deploy at the last minute was a major bummer for us. Even though the delay meant disappointing ourselves and …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Mountain.rb Hackfest and Whisky Event
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #908
- Comments on: blog: Link dump for November 26th
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Edge vs. Cloud Computing
- Coding Horror: What's On Your Utility Belt?
- The Curiosity Project: Backing Up Your Data With Fog
And a happy new year to you too.
gitrep - Search and tagging site for GitHub repositories.
Iron.io - Hosted workers, queuing, and caching for your cloud applications.
Basics of fog and AWS for Rails apps - Starting from the AWS console commands.
Building Ruby 1.9.3 package for Debian Squeeze - Came in handy last night as I brought up a new server.
- Luigi Montanez: On Starting a Startup
- How Software is Built: Interview with Rich Wolski - Eucalyptus CTO
- New Relic: September Partner Spotlight: News from CloudBees, SOASTA, Acquia and More
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Wesley Beary and fog Promoted to the Engine Yard Open Source Program
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 264 — Chaos Monkey
- till's blog: Getting the most out of Chef with Scalarium and vagrant
errorception - Hosted JavaScript error tracking.
Bootstrap Tour - Build product tours using Twitter Bootstrap popovers.
The RubyMotion Way - An appreciation of RubyMotion for iOS or Mac applications.
Vico is dead. Long live vico. - A text editor goes open source.
Introducing BitTorrent Torque - Not only is BT still around, but it's just announced an alpha JavaScript version.
- New Relic: Node.js and PaaS: Changing the Development & Operations World
- Andrzej on Software: Frontend is a separate application
- Transcending Frontiers: Positions available: Ruby Developers
- Kalzumeus Software: Kalzumeus Podcast Ep. 2 with Amy Hoy: Pricing, Products, And Passion
- DevChix: Awesome Speakers at Fluent 2012
- Trevor Turk: Links for 5-17-11
Interesting tidbits from around the web (November 26th):
Google Wave Comes Back From the Dead - so apache might take on/over google wave. which reminds me I still need to move my waves to some place safer.
50 Resources for Getting the Most Out of Google Analytics - my reading list grows - this time for google analytics.
DNSimple - Simple Hosted DNS and Domain Management - Another hosted DNS option, comes with iphone app and ruby wrapper to their API for managing DNS.
- A Fresh Cup: My Tools of the Trade - 2009
- Jason Seifer: Receiving Email with Rails
- Open Sourcery: Driving Business Processes in Ruby
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Hopping in the cloud
- Ruby on Rails, London - The Blog by Dynamic50: Creating you own internal DNS server
- Intridea - Company Blog: Announcing Custom Domain Names for your Present.ly Microblog
The Whisky Tour: Mountain.rb Edition Hosted by Engine Yard, EdgeCase and Pivotal Labs Date: TBA Time: TBA Location: Pivotal Labs Boulder, 1701 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO 80302
We're looking forward to an action-packed Mountain.rb next week. It's not too late to register to join us . Hope you can make it!
- Ruby Inside: 14 Ruby and Rails Jobs for August 2010
- Luigi Montanez: Ten Ruby Conferences (and Three Camps) in Eight Weeks
- Viget.com Blogs: Developer Day Boulder Wrapup
- Lessons Learned: Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets
- OnRails.org: RailsConf 2010 - Thank You!
…kit and substitute the smartphone. Not exactly, mind you, but it's getting closer every year. At this rate, Apple could introduce a flip-out blade on the iPhone 7 and reduce my entire EDC kit to one item.
Anyway, that's what's on my utility belt in 2010. What's on yours?
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- Coding Horror: A SSD in Your Pocket
- Coding Horror: Geek Transportation Systems
…ATI, so easily attainable for desktop users -- as long as you're aware of the DisplayPort caveat I discussed above. I'd encourage anyone who is even remotely interested in the (many) productivity benefits of a triple monitor setup to seriously consider an ATI video card upgrade.
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- Coding Horror: The PC is Over
- Coding Horror: Multiple Video Cards
- Jason Seifer: Mini DisplayPort to Dual Link DVI Adapter Fix (Temporary)
- The Usware Blog - Django Web Development: Pycon India 2009 : A Review
…On-premise Email ( Exchange Server) is being complimented with Hosted Email ( Hosted Exchange) and EMail Services ( Windows Live Mail). Windows Live Mesh is yet another example of combining the Cloud and the Edge.
Microsoft calls hybrid apps like these " Software + Services" applications. Terminology apart, you can bet that the dominant application architecture going forward would combine Cloud Computing with Edge Computing. What exact shape would this …
- SD Ruby Podcast: Episode 010: REST Web Services with Rails
- Andrzej on Software: A Guide to Deploying Rails Applications
- 41 technologies: Building a Ruby on Rails application in a week
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Key-Value Stores in Ruby: The Wrap Up
- Blog on Applicake's ideas, Ruby on Rails and Internet start-ups: How to speed up your website?
- Dead Programmer Society: The FutureRuby Revolution Will Not Be On AOL - Part 2
I have now been away from the blogosphere on yet another extended leave of absence. The reason is that I have been in the midst of change - I now lead Web Strategy at Microsoft India. The web is evolving at a very fast pace and Microsoft has a unique position amongst all technology vendors when it comes to this space. This becomes even more interesting in the India context - the pace of socio-economic change is unprecedented, and companies here are coming up with some very innovative business …
- Old dog, new tricks: Social networking is not exactly new
- Global Nerdy: Cloudy (with a Chance of Mobile)
- Scottish Ruby Conference: Gold Sponsors - Microsoft
- igvita.com: State of Ruby VMs: Ruby Renaissance
- 41 technologies: C# 4.0 specs mentions Ruby in line 4