Entries from March 2008

March 27, 2008

Companies Mastering Buzzwords

I still cannot figure out how I’ve got on this page, but the title and the first paragraph have caught my eyes:

X launches latest on-demand CRM release; Pushes social networking
X on Tuesday released its latest on demand CRM effort–X CRM On Demand Release 15–with the primary new feature being social networking capabilities.

I paused for a [...]

March 27, 2008

Extensive list of Amazon services resources

Tools

Simple Command-Line Access to Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3: + project page

EC2

EC2 AMI Tools

EC2 Command-Line Tools

EC2 AMIs

Cleaning up EC2 Images, AMIs, and Instance

EC2 New Instance Types

S3

Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer S3Fox

Bucket Explorer

S3tools project

Jungle Disk

S3Drive Windows app

S3Browse

CLI to Amazon S3 Service using Ruby

A MySQL Storage Engine for [...]

March 18, 2008

Challenge: which Javascript library is the best

Lately, I’ve been looking again at the Javascript generic libraries market. And it looks like instead of stabilizing, more and more solutions are available. I do like having options, but at the time you have to pick one things are becoming much more complex. This remembers me of the status of web frameworks in the [...]

March 12, 2008

QCon London 2008

Yes, it is again that time of the year that brings us QCon London. This second edition has started today at Queen Elizabeth Conference Center and will host quite a few interesting tracks, like The Cloud as the New Middleware Platform, the very interesting Solution Track, Banking: Complex high volume/low latency architectures, as well as [...]

March 7, 2008

All this Twitter ?!?

I’ll start by saying that I loved reading about Twitter story, history and architecture. It looks like those guys have been through a lot .
However, I must confess that I still don’t get it… I know a lot of people talking about it (still, I’m not sure they are using it), I’m hearing [...]