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Libevent Benchmarks

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:42:10 GMT

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India's Macro Economic Projections

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:42:17 GMT

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Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:55:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Should read complete article

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Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam

When Web behemoth Google officially entered the cloud computing arena back in April of this year, the space became a hot topic in IT circles almost overnight, despite the long history of availability from major vendors such as Amazon and Sun as well as a number of pioneering smaller vendors such as 3Tera and Egenera.

Are we ready to declare the “time of death” for the enterprise data center?

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:52:53 GMT

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Are we ready to declare the “time of death” for the enterprise data center?

Finally, it should be pointed out that software products are often years ahead of the market. This is no different with cloud computing and many vendors have actually been in the space for years now. But the relentless forces of commoditization and competition are having their say as well and cloud computing offers up very substantial bottom-line returns. Throw in an economic downturn and a round of enterprise cost-cutting and the market and cloud computing seem ready to meet.

EC2 and App Engine Comparison

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:24:30 GMT

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App Engine: Host Your Apps with Google

Tonight at their second CampFireOne Google Code is announcing App Engine, a hosted platform for web developers. The actual service will launch later tonight in a closed Beta. 10,000 developers will be granted access on a first come, first serve basis.

App Engine on the other hand is almost literally an engine for powering web applications. It bundles together many of the features that AWS offers into a singular package: storage like S3, auto-scaling and processing power like EC2, and a datastore like SimpleDB. App Engine also offers things that are not available on AWS like a Python runtime, Google-specific APIs and perhaps most notably a free portion of the service. App Engine is more like other web application platform services like Bungee Labs (similar but with its own language), Heroku (which supports Rails), or the now-defunct Zimki (which supported server-side JavaScript; Radar post).

Django for Google App Engine

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:18:43 GMT

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Django at a glance¶

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Because Django was developed in a fast-paced newsroom environment, it was designed to make common Web-development tasks fast and easy. Here’s an informal overview of how to write a database-driven Web app with Django.

The goal of this document is to give you enough technical specifics to understand how Django works, but this isn’t intended to be a tutorial or reference – but we’ve got both! When you’re ready to start a project, you can start with the tutorial or dive right into more detailed documentation.

PaaS: Platform as a Service

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:36:02 GMT

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Platform as a Service (PaaS) is an outgrowth of the Software as a Service application delivery model. The PaaS model makes all of the facilities required to support the end-to-end life cycle of building and delivering web applications and services entirely available from the Internet^[1]—with no software downloads or installation for developers, IT managers or end-users. It's also known as cloudware.

A Plethora of PaaS Options

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Clickability

Bungee Connect

LongJump

Comparing Amazon's and Google's PaaS Offerings

Google angles for business users with 'platform as a service'

Paas directory

Google App Engine

Morph AppSpace

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:32:03 GMT

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Morph AppSpace Supports Cloud-Based Java, Grails

Open Source PaaS Provider

Platform as a Service (PaaS) firm, Morph Labs, has added capabilities to its end-to-end platform as a service, Morph AppSpace, to allow Java and Grails applications to be deployed, delivered and managed.

Beyond the additional development language support, Morph Labs has also added a collection of new features requested by developers, including:

MySQL database option enabling existing applications to easily move into a Morph AppSpace subscription without modifications

Web-based database administrators console allowing developers to directly access, manage, upload and download data to their own databases

Job scheduler allowing developers to run timed jobs across the distributed environment, as well as pre-integrated web statistics and performance information

Cloud Computing: How will it affect Corporate IT?

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:30:55 GMT

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Cloud Computing: How Will It Affect Corporate IT?

By: Brian Moran

This week, I’d like to share an admittedly Chicken Little-esque view of what might happen when the proverbial computing cloud falls from the sky and lands on corporate IT. There’s been a lot of talk lately about cloud computing. My gut tells me that it’s a question of when, rather than if, cloud computing becomes a force to be reckoned with. This week, I won’t explore the technical merits of cloud computing or the impact that SQL Server Data Services will have on the SQL Server community. We’ll have plenty of time to discuss those topics in future weeks. Instead, I'm going to explore an aspect of cloud computing that I think has been largely ignored by the press. On with Chicken Little.

Venture Capital Database

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:24:46 GMT

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TheFunded.com is an online community of entrepreneurs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. In addition, TheFunded.com allows entrepreneurs to view and share term sheets, to assist one other finding good investors, and to discuss the many facets of operating a business. Enjoy!

Venture Capital Database

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:24:09 GMT

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492 venture firms, 863 locations and 6774 professionals found.
Click a column header to sort results or change header criteria.

Google Docs - Something unique

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:10:21 GMT

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Gadgets in spreadsheets
Ever wish you could map your spreadsheet data? Pivot around it? Plot it on a fancy chart? Create any visualization you want by choosing from our existing library of gadgets, or writing your own. The power is yours. Learn more.

Historical quotes using GoogleFinance
The GoogleFinance function can now be used to view historical prices of stocks. Just specify the stock and a date range (or number of days) and get values of open, close, volume etc. of stocks for those days. This is valid for the Nasdaq, New York, American and London exchanges. Learn more.

Forms: spreadsheet editing for the rest of us
Create a form and invite people to fill it out. They won't need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page. Answers will be automatically added to your spreadsheet. Learn more.

YAML and JSON

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:46:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: JSON is still better for object representation. KISS

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1.4. Relation to JSON

Both JSON and YAML aim to be human readable data interchange formats. However, JSON and YAML have different priorities. JSON’s foremost design goal is simplicity and universality. Thus, JSON is trivial to generate and parse, at the cost of reduced human readability. It also uses a lowest common denominator information model, ensuring any JSON data can be easily processed by every modern programming environment.

In contrast, YAML’s foremost design goals are human readability and support for serializing arbitrary native data structures. Thus, YAML allows for extremely readable files, but is more complex to generate and parse. In addition, YAML ventures beyond the lowest common denominator data types, requiring more complex processing when crossing between different programming environments.

It may be useful to define a intermediate format between YAML and JSON. Such a format would be trivial to parse (but not very human readable), like JSON.

YAML - A Good Markup for Configs

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:43:58 GMT

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YAML Ain’t Markup Language (YAML™) Version 1.2

YAML™ (rhymes with “camel”) is a human-friendly, cross language, Unicode based data serialization language designed around the common native data types of agile programming languages. It is broadly useful for programming needs ranging from configuration files to Internet messaging to object persistence to data auditing. Together with the Unicode standard for characters, this specification provides all the information necessary to understand YAML Version 1.2 and to create programs that process YAML information.

1.1. Goals

The design goals for YAML are, in decreasing priority:

YAML is easily readable by humans.
YAML matches the native data structures of agile languages.
YAML data is portable between programming languages.
YAML has a consistent model to support generic tools.
YAML supports one-pass processing.
YAML is expressive and extensible.
YAML is easy to implement and use.

Idea Wall - Ribbit way of capturing ideas

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:16:33 GMT

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A phone in Google Earth.

Browse Google Earth, click on a placemark and call someone.

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Map Call

I'd like to Develop an online Address Book application. The application would have call capabilities and would trace calls you place from your current location to its destination. This would be based around things such as Address's, Phone numbers, and would be able to pull status tags such as "Location: Home" from networking sites such as Twitter.

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Libevent Benchmarks

India's Macro Economic Projections

Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam

Are we ready to declare the “time of death” for the enterprise data center?

EC2 and App Engine Comparison

App Engine: Host Your Apps with Google

Django for Google App Engine

Django at a glance¶

PaaS: Platform as a Service

[edit] External Links

[edit] Examples of PaaS

Morph AppSpace

Cloud Computing: How will it affect Corporate IT?

Venture Capital Database

Venture Capital Database

Google Docs - Something unique

YAML and JSON

1.4. Relation to JSON

YAML - A Good Markup for Configs

YAML Ain’t Markup Language (YAML™) Version 1.2

1.1. Goals

Idea Wall - Ribbit way of capturing ideas

Ribbit Idea Wall

Participate in the conversation! Talk to us and share your dreams on how you want to engage, connect and interact with others. Tell us what you would create if voice communications are set free from the device, the platform, the carrier and the network.