Technology
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
It's comes up again. Folks are asking us to define cloud computing and every time we do, we refine it a little more. At times it's seemed like Cloud Computing became the new web 2.0 as a blanket term for everything:). I actually think we define it similarly to the ...
Tags: Cloud computing, Technology
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Progressive enhancement is one of the cornerstones of good web design: You build a solid foundation that supports a broad range of different browsers, and then add features either as you detect support for them or in a way that doesn't interfere with less capable browsers.
One of the awesome new ...
Tags: cross browser support, css, css 3, css animation, css transitions, Javascript, progressive enhancement, WebKit
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Razorfish's Matt Johnson outlined his predictions for content management over at our CMS blog, www.cmsoutlook.com. Many of his predictions will hold true for web technology at large as well. I see traction and opportunities for:
Cloud Options:We will see further movement towards cloud solutions, and more vendors providing SaaS alternatives to ...
Tags: Cloud, Open source, SOA
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
I really like Matt Asay's article on why we need to focus on keeping the cloud open and less about keeping the operating system open. If you think of the cloud as an 'array' of applications and less of a hosting solution it starts to open up the aperture on ...
Tags: Articles, google, Matt Asay, Microsoft, Open source, Operating system, Programming, Red Hat
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Day 3! The whole reason I am at the SharePoint Conference this year is because I am helping our client present their SharePoint case study in one of today's sessions.
I scheduled some lightweight sessions in the morning, starting with the fun Building Sharepoint Mashups With SharePoint Designer, Bing Maps and ...
Tags: conference, Content Management, deployment, enterprise, internationalization, kraft, kraftfoods, Sharepoint, social, Visual Studio
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
The challenge I always have with these conferences is the plethora of choices available to attendees. I already know what topics I want to focus on: WCM; Architecting, Developing and Building public facing internet sites, and Social features in 2010. But even so, there are still time slots where I ...
Tags: architecture, best practices, Cloud, Development, mandalay bay, Sharepoint, training, virtualization
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
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It's nice to see Amazon moving into the CDN space with their Cloudfront offering, it seems like the CDN market can definitely use some fresh look at the challenge. It looks like it builds off your usage of Amazon S3 but with an ...
Tags: Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Content delivery network, Coral Caching, Open source, Peer-to-peer, Technology
Posted in Cloud computing, General, Technology | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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Just a couple of weeks after Amazon's announcement of their private cloud offering it looks like Microsoft is starting to open discussions in that direction. What's interesting about Microsoft's discussion is that are coming at it from two directions. They are a provider to the data centers, hosting ...
Tags: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud computing, Data center, Microsoft
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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Google announced a new language called Noop today. It looks pretty interesting, building on the power of spring and most notably for them, building dependency injection right into the laungage. Here's some of the highlights. As we look across the projects we are working on it's clear how ...
Tags: Dependency injection, google, Spring
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Cnet reports today on how Vivek Kundra, the US Chief Information Officer (CIO), is pushing for more movement into the clould computing space to help save taxpayer dollars. There are definitely huge savings with clould computing and it's getting harder and harder for enterprises to ignore. Especially with the recent announcement ...
Tags: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Cloud computing, Scalability, Technology, Vivek Kundra
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