From the monthly archives:

March 2008

QCon day 3 – computing in the cloud panel discussion

March 12, 2008

Without a doubt the highlight of the day so far. The panel of the days presenters covered the whole spectrum of cloud computing from current position to future issues. I have five pages of notes from this so not one for my N810 or my thumbs will go dead. The key points of interest to [...]

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QCon day 3 – yahoo pipes

March 12, 2008

I posted about pipes about a year ago and it has since increased its modules from 20 to 50 and makes up 1/3 of all mash-up calls to Google. I really need to play with it some more, it really is very cool, bringing a lot of power without the need to code and enabling [...]

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QCon day 3 – Google Data API

March 12, 2008

The google data API talk concentrated on decisions behind the selection of REST over SOAP; basically RESTs four operations get,put, post and delete are likely to cover 90% of your needs. Also the extensions they have developed around query, authentication, concurrent operations and batch updates. These concepts were tied in nicely to examples of use [...]

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QCon day 3 – keeping 99.95% uptime

March 12, 2008

I found the speaker a little monotone, but the content of the talk was very interesting. It provided a very clear view of how Merrel Lynch deals with the billions of daily messages, produced by there systems globally. The break down of message precedence and the aim of automated fixing of an issue within an [...]

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QCon day 3 – cloud computing, salesforce

March 12, 2008

All to much about the product, gave up after 10 mins and went to the banking track.

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QCon day 3 – Amazon web services

March 12, 2008

I already use Jungle Disk which is the amazon S3 (simple storage service). But this talk went through the entire set of services, giving enough insight into each to provoke thought, as to potential uses. Of great interest to me was the Elastic compute cloud, allowing for fast scalability and setup, with a time, bandwidth [...]

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QCon day 3 – Keynote

March 12, 2008

I think that Eric is a good speaker and the Eclipse project is interesting,but was it worthy of a keynote slot? I say this as it ended up as more of a product pitch for Jazz, which looked good in one way, but only if you are going to base your team around it, and [...]

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QCon day 2 – The Zen of Agile Management

March 11, 2008

I was not quite sure what to pick today, after almost going for Java Performance i opted for the Agile route. The session was not quite what i expected from the title or excerpt, but still very enjoyable. David Anderson came at agile almost from the standpoint of standard problem software projects. He looked at [...]

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