Amazon Web Services Blog: Cloudbursting - Hybrid Application Hosting (22)
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I get to meet with lots of developers and system architects as part of my job. Talking to them about cloud computing and about the Amazon Web Services is both challenging and rewarding. Cloud computing as a concept is still relatively new. When I explain what it is and what it enables, I can almost literally see the light bulbs lighting up in people's heads as they understand cloud computing and our services, and what ...
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RightScale Webinar: Leveraging Amazon's Elastic Block Store (4)
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The folks at RightScale will be conducting a webinar on Thursday, August 28th at 10 AM PDT. They'll focus on the recently announced Amazon Elastic Block Store, discussing application scenarios, mission-critical deployment, architecture, and design considerations. Michael Crandell (RightScale CEO) and Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale CTO) will present. The webinar is free, but space is limited and pre-registration is recommended. -- Jeff;
$249 Kindle 2.0 significantly thinner and Frog stylish? (26)
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Filed under: Displays, Misc. Gadgets Like the 1st generation Kindle unearthed by Engadget snoops way back in September of 2006, Amazon's having a tough time keeping the lid on its 2nd generation e-book reader. Seems everyone and his analyst brother is confirming a new, larger screened collegiate reader and at least one other variation, presumably the Kindle 2.0. Now BusinessWeek steps up and "confirms" the collegiate reader while claiming knowledge of a new 2.0 base ...
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Aaron said:
Hmmm, I might buy one of these at this price point...
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Greg Lowe said:
I've been waiting for this. I'm very excited that this may replace the glut of books that collect dust
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Tim said:
At $249 I would consider this, as many books as I read.
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nybble said:
If Frog design did Kindle 2.0 (and if Kindle 2.0 actually exists), that will be very cool on a few levels.
Coderholic » Blog Archive » 10 Free Python Programming Books (29)
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Below is a collection of 10 great Python programming books that are available online in full, completely free of charge:Dive into PythonThis is a fantastic book that is also available in print. It covers everything, from installing Python and the language’s syntax, right up to web services and unit testing. This is a good book to learn from, but it’s also excellent to use a reference. I frequently find myself visiting the site! If you ...
Amazon Confirms Student Version Of Kindle (41)
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Amazon confirmed our speculation that they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle, reports the Seattle PI. Textbooks are a $5.5 billion annual market, and most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks. McGraw-Hill Education, for example, publishes 95% of their books electronically as well as in print. But there is no compelling device to read them on. The new Kindle will likely be a large screen ...
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Eric Atkins said:
Yes! Forget about heavy text books. Give me digital paper.
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Ahmaud Templeton said:
The opportunity to buy digital copies of my textbooks would be fantastic. I wouldn't have to lug around those tomes from class to class anymore. Man, would that be nice.
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fesja said:
a ver si pruebo un kindle, que tengo curiosidad por ver cómo funciona
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Vicky said:
Great move by Amazon. I hope this will bring down the price of textbooks considerably.
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Amazon confirmed our speculation that they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle, reports the Seattle PI. Textbooks are a $5.5 billion annual market, and most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks. McGraw-Hill Education, for example, publishes 95% of their books electronically as well as in print. But there is no compelling device to read them on. The new Kindle will likely be a large screen ...
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Ahmaud Templeton said:
The opportunity to buy digital copies of my textbooks would be fantastic. I wouldn't have to lug around those tomes from class to class anymore. Man, would that be nice.
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Vicky said:
Great move by Amazon. I hope this will bring down the price of textbooks considerably.
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Eric Atkins said:
Yes! Forget about heavy text books. Give me digital paper.
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fesja said:
a ver si pruebo un kindle, que tengo curiosidad por ver cómo funciona
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Forrest said:
SO COOL - this should be a great catalyst for amazon, and plays to a bunch of themes that are popular across the political divide. Good on Amazon for bringing this solution to market.
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Sean Blakey said:
Consistently handling PDFs of lecture slides and papers would be a big improvement.
OpenDS in your OpenSolaris Machine ... or in your Servlet! (2)
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Here are two quite different uses of OpenDS - which recently Reached 1.0 and is now Commercially Supported. First as a Directory Service for OpenSolaris - see these two articles by Ludo, Marzen and Marina: Basic Setup and Advanced Configuration. The second is as An Embedded Application: Mark describes in detail how to write a portable Servlet using OpenDS so it can run on a container like GlassFish Server.
GPS-equipped turtle runs into reefer farm, gets high-fives from police (22)
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Filed under: GPSThough not quite as bad as toting the GPS module around with you, one particular marijuana farmer had to be mighty embarrassed / wondering what he ever did to deserve such bad luck when a GPS-equipped turtle meandered into his crop. As the story goes, a close friend of the police -- a box turtle with no fear of Big Brother -- just happened upon a pot stash on US park property. Clearly, ...
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John G said:
Props for the headline alone.
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CannonGod said:
The thought of crime-fighting turtles. EPIC.
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Stuart said:
You knew that Dolphins were working for the NAVY. Did you know that Turtles were working for the Parks Service?
From the Trenches at Sun Identity, Part 6: Identity Services for Securing Web Applications (1)
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In this interview, Sun identity architect Aravindan Ranganathan explainswhy OpenSSO's identity services are an ideal architecture for protectingapplications from unauthorized access. He also describes the relatedtasks, the benefits, and the plans for integrating identity serviceswith the federation capability in OpenSSO.
Dumber is Faster with Large Data Sets (and Disk Seeks) (18)
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I remember reading Disk is the new Tape earlier this year and how much it resonated. That's probably because I was working for Yahoo at the time and hearing a lot about their use of Hadoop for data processing. In fact, I even did a couple videos (1 and 2) about that. Anyway, I recently faced the reality of this myself. When I wrote about The Long Term Performance of InnoDB I'd been beating my ...
OpenSSO Early Access Free Training (1)
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Deploying OpenSSO servers in a simple environment is trivially easy. But throw secure sockets layer (SSL), load balancers, multiple servers, session failover, and Policy Agents to the mix, and deployment becomes a little more complex. The OpenSSO Deployment course - a series of five downloadable, self-paced labs - takes you through a complex OpenSSO deployment. You deploy two Apache Tomcat servers, SSL-enable them, install a software load balancer, install OpenSSO into the environment, and configure ...
Vampire Power (2)
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Since I’ve been doing a lot of traveling these last couple months (Amsterdam, Chicago, Portland, and Providence) I have been shutting everything down and unplugging it from the wall. My power bill has taken a noticeable dip. The main reason is because of Vampire Power which sounds like a rejected Marvel super hero, but it is actually the power that is drawn from the wall socket when your device is OFF but plugged in. For ...
Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data (37)
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A few months ago I talked about our plans to offer a persistent storage feature for Amazon EC2. At that time I indicated that the service was in a limited alpha release with a small number of customers. Since then the alpha testers have been putting the service to good use and have provided us with a lot of very helpful feedback. As of today, the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is now open and ...
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Unbelievable, this is amazing. I wish they'd give sample cost estimates - I/O requests is an interesting metric to charge by. Snapshots is really great.
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cb160 said:
Lack Persistant disk storage was one of the features that made running a traditional app on EC2 difficult. Now Amazon have added it with Elastic Block Store, that problem has gone away.Startup infrastructure costs just dropped to 0.
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wow.
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It's here!!!
Django on Jython: It's here! (2)
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Leo Soto: Django on Jython: It's here! ["That's true: Django works on Jython without any special patch! For anyone interesting in trying it out, I've written the steps on the Jython wiki. For Jython, I think this is great. Not only showing that it is alive and well, but also to expose how much progress has been done in almost every front. Better unicode support, an improved parser, setuptools compatibility, performance improvements, experimental system-restarting support, ...
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Bringing lightweight web apps to the Java world...
OpenMQ in 512 Node Setup on EC2 (2)
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Max Gorbunov, from Grid Dynamics has been testing scalability of GridGain Software for a Monte Carlo Simulation on Amazon EC2. Max initially used ActiveMQ but later switched to OpenMQ to address scalability and ease of use stability and robustness issues. The stack showed linear scalability up to 512 nodes. Check out Max's full report and the Press Release. Also check previous entries tagged as OpenMQ
brunch with bacon; affordable terabytes (2)
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"Why is everyone in San Francisco obsessed with bacon?". "The city is built on it. Well, interleaved strata of bacon and vegans". I went to a geekhaus brunch, and the bacon was delicious (this is the same group who had successfully created bacon vodka, so it was bound to be.) Rose talked a bit about her research into hacker spaces, most notably the European spaces, but also the parallel US developments like l0ft and NYC ...
Foo for Bar: Kicking Ass with Outcome-Based Thinking (47)
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The other day, I was talking with someone who is trying to encourage a Getting Things Done-like work approach amongst the people on his team. We started talking about which parts of David Allen’s GTD system appear to have the greatest long-term impact on the people who have adopted it and who ultimately stick with it for years. When asked to distill everything down to its most powerful concepts, I came up with three, and ...
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I currently love the first two. Need to work on the 3rd.
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The other day, I was talking with someone who is trying to encourage a Getting Things Done-like work approach amongst the people on his team. We started talking about which parts of David Allen’s GTD system appear to have the greatest long-term impact on the people who have adopted it and who ultimately stick with it for years. When asked to distill everything down to its most powerful concepts, I came up with three, and ...
Setting Up OpenDS 1.0.0 as a Naming Service for the OpenSolaris OS, Part 2 of 2: Advanced Configurations (2)
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To complete the process, configure for UNIX user authentication and for Digest-MD5 or CRAM-MD5 authentication before setting up the clients. This article walks you through the procedures and describes how to optimize for performance and edit Java settings. Read Part 1.
Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So (24)
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[Basic Repository] commands are needed by people who have arepository --- that is everybody, because every working tree ofgit is a repository.In addition, [Individual Developer (Standalone)] commands areessential for anybody who makes a commit, even for somebody whoworks alone.If you work with other people, you will need commands listed inthe [Individual Developer (Participant)] section as well.People who play the [Integrator] role need to learn some morecommands in addition to the above.[Repository Administration] commands are for ...
