links for 2008-07-26
26 July, 2008
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Yesterday I found a story about a small startup that does on-demand scanning. This is the other way around: a webservice that provides API access to the (snail)mail system. Really easy to send real mail from an application or webservice. Cool stuff.
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Intruiging comparison between cloud computing and ’sharecropping’. Basic assumption here is that when the cloud goes down, you’re screwed. The remainder of the article talks about the new (real) distributed database Prophet, challenging stuff.
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I love seeing protocols being ‘ab-used’ in briljant ways. Here Jabber XMPP is used as a substitute to polling (which sucks) RSS feeds. Smart thinking. Inspirational to think how to use protocols or standards for the wrong reasons…
links for 2008-07-25
25 July, 2008
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Interesting article, both from the customer proposition offered and startup structure. For the proposition I’m curious to see if this work; are consumers likely to send in confidential documents? Starting up a business without external funding seems cool.
links for 2008-07-22
22 July, 2008
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Handy tutorial about how to make your own VMware images, without the need of the expensive VMware tooling. Just tried it, and it works like a charm.
links for 2008-07-18
18 July, 2008
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Thorough overview of how to put together a simple scalable cloud application. This article takes the ‘grepweb’ as an example for putting together Amazon Web Services to provide a reliable and ‘performant’ service.
links for 2008-07-15
15 July, 2008
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Seldomly, you see an article about a hype that is not hyping it up. This is an example, although it values cloud computing, it values it for the right reason: to help the user have a more enjoyable experience using software as a service.
links for 2008-07-11
11 July, 2008
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Although it is a somewhat open door, this is an interesting observation: the way we treat information as knowledge workers does not fit the information paradigm the desktop UIs are offering. We are forced to write documents instead of authoring streams.
links for 2008-07-09
9 July, 2008
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Insightful article on how Southwest Airlines beats the rest by keeping things as simple as possible. Especially, the flexibility they get back from having a completely homogeneous fleet. Although, I wonder what happens when their fuel hedges run out…
links for 2008-07-03
3 July, 2008
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In browser testing can be tricky. This is a good pointer to some software that does (part) of the job. Hopefully, Selenium will develop into something that is more useful.
links for 2008-07-02
2 July, 2008
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Amazon’s EC2 is like a freehaven, and those normally attract some nasty behaviour a ‘bad few’ spoiling the fun for the ‘good lot’. Amazing that Amazon seems to think that they’re dealing this adequately.
