Software Development Predictions For 2009 McAllister writes, adding that smart companies will realize that 'process automation is one of the best ways to reduce costs in any business,' making 2009 the ideal time to 'revisit old software schemes that got shelved back when staffing budgets w ere flush.'" Shi Yali Some rights reserved Focusing inward,…
Good Crowd in the Cloud
A collegue forwarded this note about a new Aptana product release. Joyent is a competitor to Amazon Web Services. They're significantly smaller, but recently, Aptana released beta software that makes deployments to Joyent's cloud pretty simple. photo credit: ecstaticist They currently support standard LAMP deployments; plans include Rails and Python. Aptana's got a good history…
iphones and clouds
The 2.02 update helps some. I can listen to music while playing poker. Mobile me is a possibility. A trial to ensue it hooks up well with the google apps running our intranet. With that running in the ether, thoughts turn to other environments doing so. There are a number of interesting possibilities. I'd like…
Sessions of Interest @ Web 2.0 Expo
It might be a bit early for us, in general, to show up here, but there are a good number of solid technical sessions. http://webexny2008.crowdvine.com/calendar We'll have to find the notes from Expo San Fran ... Lessons Learned in Scaling and Building Social Systems Joshua Schachter Building in the Clouds: Scaling Web 2.0Alistair Croll, Jason…