Yes, I too am whoring myself out for 3 free bonus apps that I’ll never use from Mac Heist! Srsly. http://bit.ly/heist-it [via twitter] ¶
RT @ruv: Intel’s new Nehalem-EX: 8 cores per processor and up to 8 sockets per server <- Gentlemen, start updating your licensing models! [via twitter] ¶
RT @Sparkenstein RT @samcharrington RT @appistry 2010: The Year of PaaS? http://bit.ly/cEc1P1 <- Webinar link fixed: http://bit.ly/an50ES [via twitter] ¶
RT @appistry 2010: The Year of PaaS? http://bit.ly/cEc1P1 [via twitter] ¶
RT @appistry 2010: The Year of PaaS? http://bit.ly/cEc1P1 [via twitter] ¶
The new place is nice! (@ Mai Lee) http://4sq.com/babqn5 [via twitter] ¶
I’m at dobbs tire (Brentwood Promenade, St. Louis). http://4sq.com/5az8tq [via twitter] ¶
RT @phsoffer: @samcharrington good thing there’s only one Cloud Sam, and it’s you! <– Sorry @samj 
[via twitter] ¶
WTH, are there are two Cloud Slam events? cloudslam10.com and cloudslamevent.com/cloudslam10, both on different dates? [via twitter] ¶
A new STL Thai favorite for me! (@ pearl cafe) http://4sq.com/a8pSEb [via twitter] ¶
I’m at The Center of Clayton (50 Gay Ave, Maryland Ave, Clayton). http://4sq.com/90UyTK [via twitter] ¶
Clouderati @botchagalupe @joeweinman @kjackson @bobflores @dwploc tagged in a photo! http://bit.ly/9gkgN0 (Second pic, click to enlarge 
[via twitter] ¶
Thinking about the @Appistry web site. Any thoughts or suggestions from a content perspective? [via twitter] ¶
Cloud Pulse -> Cloud Links for February 25, 2010 http://bit.ly/bKklyP [via twitter] ¶
RT @HighTechDad CCIF may close – Page 1 – Enterprise Infrastructure
http://bit.ly/cI4k4T <- Wow, slow news day! [via twitter] ¶
Cloud Pulse -> Cloud Links for February 24, 2010 http://bit.ly/agv5Ma [via twitter] ¶
- chive – MySQL database management tool
"Chive is a next generation MySQL database management tool. The web-based user interface supports most of the common operations needed by software developers and database admins (databases, tables, indices, keys, triggers, views, routines, privileges management, import/export). Chive aims to be an alternative to phpMyAdmin." — You go!
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RT @samj Hullo boys… T-5d until next MacHeist?: http://bit.ly/3nvX14 <- Txs for the heads-up! [via twitter] ¶
I scored 89/100 on the Pew Research Center How Millennial Are You? Quiz http://pewresearch.org/millennials/quiz <- my kids keep me young? [via twitter] ¶
RT @OrenMichels RT @bradjohnsonsv: Dad, Mom, follow Cisco &CA (Mashery, 3Tera) to the #cloud <- Did I miss a CA acq of Mashery? [via twitter] ¶
RT @appistry Cloud Computing and the Economy: Introducing the Appistry Roundtable Recap Blog Series http://bit.ly/9BXf00 [via twitter] ¶
I’m hearing good things about the price CA paid for 3tera. Bodes well for the entire space. Congrats to the team at 3tera. [via twitter] ¶
RT @Sparkenstein http://bit.ly/9ohylV <- +1! Platform needs more of this kind of attention <- Thanks!! Wholeheartedly agree! [via twitter] ¶
Cloud Pulse -> Cloud Links for February 23, 2010 http://bit.ly/bLJNel [via twitter] ¶
- Don’t Pass on PaaS in 2010 – ebizQ
Written by yours truly.
- Cassandra Database accepted as a Apache Top-Level Project
Congrats to the Cassandra community. I'm excited about the work they're doing and the growing acceptance.
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RT @randybias twitter joins the cassandra movement. http://bit.ly/bMvsxg <- Great article with nice detail! [via twitter] ¶
Between @abiquo and @opennebula, looks like lots of interesting open source IaaS work happening in Spain. [via twitter] ¶
Just got word that a paper I contributed to is scheduled for publication in the April issue of IEEE Transactions on Communications. [via twitter] ¶
RT @teich Heroku is ruby. <- OMG I don’t know what I was thinking when I typed that! Thx for overlooking [via twitter] ¶
More on the topic of PaaS: The Essential Characteristics of PaaS – http://bit.ly/aY9cVa [via twitter] ¶
Don’t Pass on PaaS in 2010 http://bit.ly/9YEKBw [via twitter] ¶
Cloud Pulse -> The Essential Characteristics of PaaS http://bit.ly/9Tbrwo [via twitter] ¶
I’m at The Center of Clayton (50 Gay Ave, Maryland Ave, Clayton). http://4sq.com/90UyTK [via twitter] ¶
.@Beaker Not sure how FF tab thread started, but u should look up BarTab, a new plugin that keeps tabs from consuming mem till you need them [via twitter] ¶
Looking for future speakers for St. Louis Cloud User Group. We want to learn about what you’re working on! Interested? LMK! [via twitter] ¶
Downloading LinkedIn Social Connector for Outlook… http://bit.ly/9ZP5HF [via twitter] ¶
I’m at Blue Nile Market & Cafe (8615 Olive Blvd, St. Louis). http://4sq.com/aHrIhZ [via twitter] ¶
I’m at Micro Center (87 Brentwood Promenade Court, St. Louis). http://4sq.com/43CP7K [via twitter] ¶
Facebook enables XMPP chat: http://bit.ly/8Yluts <- Great thing, cause that hacked Adium support never quite worked! [via twitter] ¶
New video “Appistry CloudIQ Platform and Enterprise Private Clouds” http://bit.ly/amTEMc <- What do you think? Informative? [via twitter] ¶
RT @Beaker I think you’ll be quite impressed when you see the list of core team mbrs of CloudAudit <- I was. Great team! LMK how i can help! [via twitter] ¶
Between this and your recent launch of sys-con-like Ulitzer competitor, I wonder if the real @samj has been abducted and replaced!?! [via twitter] ¶
RT @appistry: Appistry partner AgilePath wins “KPI Award” for work in cloud computing http://bit.ly/9KzvWI <- Congrats Eric and team! [via twitter] ¶
Doesn’t @samj hate things with Cloud in the name, now proposes CloudAudit [via twitter] ¶
On the A6, now CloudAudit, con call. [via twitter] ¶
RT @kylecordes Roughly, ALL hosting providers will be cloud providers. <- My belief as well. Blogged about it here http://bit.ly/cLmLaC [via twitter] ¶
There’s not just a handful of hosting providers, so why do people think there will only be a few cloud providers? [via twitter] ¶
Battery dying… must be time for bed, er, sleep. [via twitter] ¶
Clayton vs Ladue at Fontbonne with the girls. (@ Mark Twain Athletic and Fitness Center) http://4sq.com/dnrDjZ [via twitter] ¶
Regarding PaaS talk for #SFCloudClub, what do folks most want to know/learn/hear about PaaS? [via twitter] ¶
I’m at House of India (8501 Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis). http://4sq.com/7se9o9 [via twitter] ¶
On my way home! (@ Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) w/ 9 others) http://4sq.com/qm5av [via twitter] ¶
RT @bensons speed vs quality? <- Lord grant me the ability to work quickly & produce quality output, + the wisdom to know which to do when! [via twitter] ¶
RT @scottsanchez RT @samcharrington: @samj So when can we expect #OCCI, #A6 <- Making babies is easy, raising kids is hard! [via twitter] ¶
RT @mgualtieri: Late departure in Raleigh b/c crew needed a “bio-fluids” kit to clean up after last flight. <- Ewww [via twitter] ¶
As usual I need to wait six months for Buzz because I wanted to use a custom domain for my email address. [via twitter] ¶
CIO at the summit I’m at, on the transition to cloud: “We’ve become the mainframe guys we were brought in to get rid of!” [via twitter] ¶
Far from home, but just found my long lost bluetooth headset… Time for bed! #QuittingWhileAhead [via twitter] ¶
RT CloudAve: OpenECP, An Enomaly ECP Fork http://bit.ly/avFVPo <- nice post by @krishnan on a touchy topic [via twitter] ¶
- IR Pens, wiimote whiteboard, IR Pen, wiimote project, infrared pen
i saw this live the other day–pretty impressive.
- CCK Export for node modules | The Worx Company | Oklahoma Web Design
Great how-to on migrating CCK content types to custom modules.
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Cloud Pulse -> Cloud Links for February 7, 2010 http://bit.ly/bIfiuX [via twitter] ¶
Waffles! (@ City Coffee House & Creperie) http://4sq.com/7GQWNq [via twitter] ¶
I’m at Momos Greek Tavern (630 North and South Rd, Delmar, St. Louis). http://4sq.com/7bZab7 [via twitter] ¶
I’m at Hotel Roger Williams (131 Madison Avenue, 31 Street, New York). http://4sq.com/4S5KAL [via twitter] ¶
I’m at Barbounia (250 Park Avenue South, 19th Street, New York). http://4sq.com/3OYvkF [via twitter] ¶
Cloud Pulse -> Cloud Links for February 1, 2010 http://bit.ly/b8xpOp [via twitter] ¶
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Cloud Pulse -> Cloud Links for January 31, 2010 http://bit.ly/cNnfGB [via twitter] ¶
I’m at Micro Center (87 Brentwood Promenade Court, St. Louis). http://4sq.com/43CP7K [via twitter] ¶
I’m at The Center of Clayton (50 Gay Ave, Maryland Ave, Clayton). http://4sq.com/90UyTK [via twitter] ¶
I’m at Lowe’s (, Richmond Heights). [via twitter] ¶
Cloud Pulse -> Cloud Links for January 30, 2010 http://bit.ly/amRCM8 [via twitter] ¶
- Amazon S3: Versioning Proposal
"Versioning allows you to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Once enabled for a bucket, Amazon S3 preserves existing objects anytime you perform a PUT, POST, COPY, or DELETE operation on them. By default, GET requests will retrieve the most recently written version. Older versions of an overwritten or deleted object can be retrieved by specifying a version in the request."
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First time here. (@ Remy’s Kitchen & Wine Bar) http://4sq.com/cj0REp [via twitter] ¶
- Alex Payne — On the iPad
"The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I’d never be a programmer today. I’d never have had the ability to run whatever stupid, potentially harmful, hugely educational programs I could download or write. I wouldn’t have been able to fire up ResEdit and edit out the Mac startup sound so I could tinker on the computer at all hours without waking my parents. The iPad may be a boon to traditional eduction, insofar as it allows for multimedia textbooks and such, but in its current form, it’s a detriment to the sort of hacker culture that has propelled the digital economy."
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Yum!! (@ Blue Nile Market & Cafe) http://4sq.com/aHrIhZ [via twitter] ¶
Will the iPad be Apple’s Foleo, or will the RDF carry the day? [via twitter] ¶
- dpBestflow
"dpBestflow is the new guide for every aspect of digital imaging technology from ASMP, the leader in education for the professional photographer."
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- Septivium – Ask MetaFilter’s best introductory books
"When talking about the Best Books I linked to this great Ask MetaFilter thread from 2007: What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?. The whole thing’s worth a read but a while back I decided to go through, give it a squeeze, and extract the juicy bits: the books themselves. So below is a list of books, grouped into topics, as recommended by the thread."
- PyPalm for Palm webOS development « Punch Card
"[Palm's] command line tools have a little shortcoming as they do not derive information from the appinfo.json that is available in the application directory. For me the first thing I created was a deploy bash script that would allow me to package, build and deploy to the virtual machine in one step. Again the issue was that already available information about the application from config files was not derived. So I started writing a small command line application called PyPalm in Python that would allow all that what I mentioned above and regroup the Palm tools together."
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I’m at Ranoush (6501 Delmar, Westgate, St. Louis). http://4sq.com/5tLIOl [via twitter] ¶
Cloud Pulse -> St. Louis Cloud Computing User Group -> First Meeting Tonight! http://bit.ly/5rySmg [via twitter] ¶
St. Louis Cloud Computing Users Group -> First Meeting Tonight! http://bit.ly/7rW4l6 [via twitter] ¶
- Owl in flight
Cool image of an owl in flight!
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Yummy veggie burgers! (@ vega deli) http://4sq.com/5VBjRO [via twitter] ¶
I’m at Ranoush (6501 Delmar, Westgate, St. Louis). http://4sq.com/5tLIOl [via twitter] ¶
- Scrabble Cheat Sheets
- Psystar files official notice of appeal, ruthlessly attacks windmill
Sometimes you've got to love Engadget's headlines.
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- USB Overdrive
The USB Overdrive is a device driver for Mac OS X that handles any USB mouse / trackball / joystick / gamepad / media keyboard and any Bluetooth mouse from any manufacturer and lets you configure them either globally or on a per-application, per-device basis.
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Cloud Pulse -> Cloud Links for January 13, 2010 http://bit.ly/5wAJTk [via twitter] ¶
- Google brings Friend Connect to Joomla and Drupal
"Today, Google announced the addition of their Friend Connect service to both the Joomla and Drupal platforms. Friend Connect is a pretty cool concept. It allows people to become "members" of a website by using credentials from sites like Google, Twitter, Yahoo, etc. Once logged in, you can "like" content, add other friends and participate in polls, discussions and other stuff like that."
- $0 to $20 Million: Ten Hand-to-Hand Sales Tactics
"Technology blogs are full of advice for startups: where to start a company, how to raise capital, what kind of culture to build, whom to hire. But we hardly ever talk about what makes strategic decisions meaningful: sales. A company with strong sales can build a great culture, hire anyone and take the time to figure out its strategy. Without sales, nothing else matters."
- tonyg’s pika at master – GitHub
"Pika is a pure-Python implementation of the AMQP 0-8 protocol (with an 0-9-1 implementation on a separate git branch, for now) that tries to stay fairly independent of the underlying network support library. It also tries to stay neutral as to programming style, supporting (where possible) both synchronous and asynchronous approaches."
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- How to: create a wiki with Drupal
"Over the past two years, Drupal's wiki capabilities have expanded exponentially. Yet, still we get support requests on the forums, "How can I make a wiki with Drupal?" Well, here is a detailed plan that gives wiki functionality to Drupal. This tutorial assumes you're starting with an installed version of Drupal 5.x, and that you're familiar with installing modules."
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TextMate is dying trying to open a 197KB file. Seems weak! [via twitter] ¶
RT @randybias It’s used for at least three distinctly different solutions and hence means nothing. <– Same goes for cloud, but worse! [via twitter] ¶
RT @bmichelson Cisco TelePresence: home office worker nightmare scenario! <- Yeah, y’all will have to get dressed like the rest of us now! [via twitter] ¶
The Time Is Ripe for Private Clouds in the Public Sector http://bit.ly/4GfRak [via twitter] ¶
Microsoft, HP said to unveil Courier tablet today at CES http://bit.ly/8b6dqm [via twitter] ¶
RT @GeorgeReese If the killer feature of N1 is G Voice transcripting, they’re screwed. <- Know shitting! (”No kidding” as transcribed by GV) [via twitter] ¶
Did Google just screw Motorola by overhanging the Droid market? [via twitter] ¶
Nice. Rackspace’s support line keeps hanging up on me when I get to the front of the queue. [via twitter] ¶
Apple, Verizon in disagreement over CDMA iPhone pricing http://bit.ly/5V5WgY [via twitter] ¶
Cloud Pulse -> Cloud Links for January 4, 2010 http://bit.ly/4YgHQ0 [via twitter] ¶
RT @krishnan VMware buying Zimbra (via @jamesurquhart) <– Ha!! <– Huh?!? I’m not getting that one at all. [via twitter] ¶
Official Retweets or RTs/Forwards in 2010? What are folks thinking for sharing tweets on #twitter? Haven’t decided myself… [via twitter] ¶
RT @ras_shadow Installing Appistry CloudIQ cloud platform on Ubuntu: http://bit.ly/5nX6q1 [via twitter] ¶
Google App Engine SDK 1.3.0 released including File Upload API (e.g. a la S3) http://bit.ly/7MA5PG [via twitter] ¶
RT @samj 2009 *was* cloud? HA! <- Agreed! The fun is just beginning!!! (cc @stu @chuckhollis) [via twitter] ¶
- Apple’s Heuristics: The Good, the Bad, Some Ugly
Interesting Java developer's perspective on iPhone development, the Cocoa Framework and Objective-C.
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Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/6Z385A #fb [via twitter] ¶
The Famous ProductBeautiful Roadmapping Drinking Game http://bit.ly/4ttoT4 <- Somehow I don’t think I’d survive this! [via twitter] ¶
Horrifying personal story of corruption in Russia – They Killed My Lawyer | Foreign Policy http://bit.ly/6FSFj6 #fb [via twitter] ¶
New Blog Post -> Resolution: It’s Just ‘cloud computing’ Now http://bit.ly/58pDCR [via twitter] ¶
A rough equivalent to ipconfig /release, /renew for OS X:
sudo ifconfig enX down
sudo ifconfig enX up
Where en0 is the wired ethernet jack, en1 is the airport card. ¶
I wish word processors had a feature roughly equivalent to code folding in IDEs. (I don’t like outline mode in Word so that doesn’t count.) [via twitter] ¶
- 24 ways: Make Your Mockup in Markup
Learned a lot about the latest CSS3 tricks here. I guess I haven't been keeping up.
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- The Mobile Mobile is a magnificent and melodious module of merriment
"Faced with an agency-wide phone upgrade that left fifty older HTC devices homeless, UK-based Lost Boys International decided to act on instinct in the most natural of ways: by turning each device into a cog in a musical mobile that hangs just inside the entrance of its Brick Lane studio."
– Very cool. I'd love to know how they programmed the phones. Maybe just ringtones?
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RT @botchagalupe: It’s official “The 2009 Cloudies Awards” – http://bit.ly/8kZmMG #aws #cloud #amazon #cloudies [via twitter] ¶
New Blog Post -> Introduction to MapReduce: Q&A with Michael Groner http://bit.ly/78JvvL [via twitter] ¶
New Blog Post -> Cloud Links for December 20, 2009 http://bit.ly/5zcc5P [via twitter] ¶
- Hazelcast
Hazelcast is a clustering and highly scalable data distribution platform for Java.
- Christopher Lobay
Mono is a very slick looking theme for Growl!
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I was brought up using wget to download files from the command line, and cannot seem to train myself to switch to curl, with is the default on OS X. Rather than find and install the former, I simply added the following alias to my .bash_profile:
alias wget="curl -O"
This is a simple solution that meets my needs and saves me some occasional keystrokes and frustration. It only works for simple downloads, but if I need to do something fancy I’m going to end up reading a man page anyway, and I’m just as happy to read the curl manpage in that case.
I’m not sure how long this has been around, but I noticed Text Trace while poking around my Amazon orders page. This this new-to-me feature allows you to request an SMS text notifying you when your item is out for delivery, is delivered, or when a problem has occurred preventing delivery.
Text Trace is part of a broader Amazon initiative to enhance the “Where’s My Stuff?” order management system on the site. The new “Your Orders” system has been in beta for some time and is a dramatic and much needed enhancement providing at-a-glance access to past orders as well as a search capability.
Crazy video by Intel Finland showing a stunt they pulled off to play the Intel jingle by launching human cannonballs at massive chimes. The world’s biggest Intel chime
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RT @lmacvittie: The 9 worst tech movies of all time – http://bit.ly/6LrNX0 <- Funny. Swordfish immediately came to mind when I saw this! [via twitter] ¶
RT @kylecordes Here is a prediction: The word “cloud” will start to seem old, the underlying ideas get broader adoption http://bit.ly/89LHhw [via twitter] ¶
I’m collecting the best #CloudComputing predictions for 2010. Add yours here or send me a link: http://bit.ly/89LHhw <- Please RT! [via twitter] ¶
- Theming the User Registration Form in Drupal 6 | Trellon
- Save a file you edited in vim without the needed permissions | commandlinefu.com
I often forget to sudo before editing a file I don't have write permissions on. When you come to save that file and get the infamous "E212: Can't open file for writing", just issue that vim command in order to save the file without the need to save it to a temp file and then copy it back again.
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The Clouderati’s Crystal Ball: Cloud predictions from around the web http://bit.ly/89LHhw <- Let me know if we left your predictions out! [via twitter] ¶
Stuck in a loop on the Gartner site and needed to delete all my cookies in to log in. I sometimes wonder how “normal” people use this stuff. [via twitter] ¶
Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones w/ $26 Software Package – WSJ.com http://bit.ly/7CLIWY [via twitter] ¶
RT @appistry Appistry Predictions for Cloud Computing in 2010 http://bit.ly/8dooqx <- Recap of predictions and link to replay. [via twitter] ¶
I’m a very heavy user of VMware Fusion nowadays, and depend on it for running MS Office applications (2010 Beta) on a daily basis. Since I rarely close Fusion, it was only today that I was alerted of the availability of the first update since 3.0.
A move from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 is only a bugfix release, and not something I’d typically get excited about, but a number of the Unity fixes are annoyances I run into every day. In addition, this version offers faster resume times for virtual machines, and a new native 64-bit networking subsystem.
Here’s the list of Unity View improvements:
- “Always On” Applications menu defaults to the active virtual machine, and if more than one virtual machine is running, the menu defaults to the one that has focus
- Fixes a problem in which the “Always On” Application menu was not populated in some cases
- Improves the Aero-in-Unity experience with better interactive performance and easier readability of window titles
- Improves Unity view interactive performance for 32-bit Windows applications running on 64-bit Windows operating systems
- Ability to dismiss system tray menus in Unity view with only one click
- Small mouse wheel scroll increments work correctly in Unity view
- Fixes keyboard focus issues in Unity view when multiple windows are opened and closed
- Fixes a problem in which Adobe Fireworks, Photoshop, and some other applications would drop out of Unity view, causing the Waiting for Unity window to appear
- Fixes a problem in which VMware Fusion would fail when processing very large icons from Windows applications
- Fixes a problem in which VMware Fusion could not create Windows applications in the dock for those with really long application names
The full feature list is here: VMware Fusion 3 Release Notes.
Great discussion for #appistrypredicts. Thanks @msgroner, @boblozano and @we-need-to-get-kevin-on-twitter. We will be posting the recording. [via twitter] ¶
Lots of interest in NoSQL approaches on the #appistrypredicts call. [via twitter] ¶
How will the cloud shape data? How will data shape the cloud? We discuss at Appistry Predicts 2010. Register now ->http://bit.ly/4XEiau [via twitter] ¶
What will cloud computing in 2010 have in common w/ a certain ’80s sitcom? Register now for Appistry Predicts 2010 -> http://bit.ly/4XEiau [via twitter] ¶
Not sure why folks are getting so worked up about the IW and CW articles. Charlie’s IW piece was solid, and the CW piece is clearly fluff. [via twitter] ¶
Anyone want to do Ignite St. Louis, as part of Global Ignite Week? http://bit.ly/5G0s2A [via twitter] ¶
Will your cloud provider survive the “race to zero”? Register now for Appistry Predicts 2010 -> http://bit.ly/4XEiau [via twitter] ¶
New Blog Post -> I’m Moderating the “Appistry Predicts 2010″ Event Today http://bit.ly/7K7GoN [via twitter] ¶
Follow @stlcloudusers for more information about the St. Louis Cloud Computing User Group now forming. #cloudcamp #stlouis [via twitter] ¶
New Blog Post -> CloudCamp St. Louis – Looking Backward, Looking Forward http://bit.ly/7UkZoU [via twitter] ¶
RT @kylecordes I was a sponsor of #cloudcamp and assert that even a sponsor should have max 1 slide and 10 seconds of pitch, the rest meat. [via twitter] ¶
‘Tis a sad day: ‘Flight of the Conchords’ Call It Quits Before Season Three http://bit.ly/8shBz8 [via twitter] ¶
Second round of #cloudcamp #stlouis sessions underway: Software dev perspectives, virtualization & cloud, building clouds, data & storage [via twitter] ¶
Impressed by the SRO crowd here at #cloudcamp #stlouis. I know how many seats we had, and can say for sure nearly 100% of pre-reg showed up. [via twitter] ¶
Finally able to catch a breath here at #cloudcamp #stlouis. Great content and discussion so far!!! [via twitter] ¶
Who will get the last ticket to CloudCamp St. Louis? http://bit.ly/5M98R5 [via twitter] ¶
RT @appistry: ‘Tis the Season for Predictions, Fa-la-la La-la La-la Laa-la http://is.gd/5iceu [via twitter] ¶
New Blog Post -> CloudCamp St. Louis Nearly Sold Out; Rackspace and Microsoft Join on as Sponsors http://bit.ly/4xcj2i [via twitter] ¶
The last few CloudCamp St. Louis tickets moving quickly. We’re about to be sold out!!! [via twitter] ¶
RT @bmichelson Yefim equating shared-hardware multi-tenancy to early days of screen scraping; effective, but tactical #gartneraadi [via twitter] ¶
Yefim Natis: If your objective for moving to (public) cloud is cost-savings, you should be prepared for some dissapointment. #gartneraadi [via twitter] ¶
RT @jamesurquhart RT @jack_daniel: Doesn’t EVERYTHING as “hybrid” once dust settles? <- Agree in enterprise case in the 0-10 year horizon [via twitter] ¶
Great dinner and conversation this eve with @erichknipp, @bmichelson and Clark Dorman from Next Century at #gartneraadi [via twitter] ¶
Finally made it to Vegas for Gartner AADI. Missed the “Real Cloud” panel (http://bit.ly/8yk4Ft) but looking forward to the rest of it. [via twitter] ¶
RT @appistry Gartner “Cloud Computing in the Real World” Panel Features Appistry Customer Next Century http://is.gd/5fUDS [via twitter] ¶
New Blog Post -> CloudCamp St. Louis: New Sponsors, More Attendees, Additional Event Details http://bit.ly/8dTSjb [via twitter] ¶
CloudCamp STL Rolls into Town on Thursday – St. Louis News – Daily RFT http://bit.ly/7aZ4qE [via twitter] ¶
New Blog Post -> Cloud Links for December 6, 2009 http://bit.ly/7Qzh56 [via twitter] ¶
Run a WebDAV server on your Mac to sync VoodooPad (for Free) http://bit.ly/84okXg [via twitter] ¶
I’ve recently been using VoodooPad as a note taking and organization tool. I’m enjoying using it and find that the combination of Wiki-like organization, editing and linking of content combined with the responsiveness of a desktop application works very well for me.
As a user of both desktop and laptop computers, I quickly ran into the need to synchronize my two VoodooPad instances. Since VP stores all your notes in a single file (actually an OS X package) my first thought was to drop it in my DropBox folder and be done with it. This could work fine but you’ve got to be extremely careful to not change your document in multiple places—the DropBox mechanism has no idea how to synchronize changes within the documents.
Fortunately VP has built in support for synchronizing with a WebDAV server. VP’s developer directs folks to MobileMe as a readily available WebDAV server, but I don’t have an account there and don’t have much interest in subscribing. That left me with the option of setting up my own WebDAV server. The documentation points users to a great article by Manas Tungare which describes how to set up WebDAV on Mac OS X for use with another program, OmniFocus.
This article gave me everything I needed to quickly get a WebDAV server set up on my system. What follows here is my remix of Manas’ article, with a few tweaks that better accommodate my preferences and VPs capabilities, especially in the security arena.
Setting up WebDAV on Mac OS X for use with VoodooPad
Step 1: Enable Web Sharing in OS X
WebDAV is a protocol for storing documents to a Web server, so we’ll need to get one of those set up. Fortunately Mac OS X has the Apache Web Server built-in. Just go to System Preferences > Sharing and check the box labeled Web Sharing.
Step 2: Enable WebDAV support in Apache
Edit the file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, (remember to use sudo to edit it) and locate this line:
LoadModule dav_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav.so
Make sure it is not commented out (there should be no “#” at the beginning of the line.)
Next, locate this line (towards the bottom of the file):
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-dav.conf
Again, make sure it is not commented out. It is disabled by default, so you need to remove the “#” from this line.
Finally, because we will use digest authentication here, go back up to the LoadModule section of the file and make sure that auth_digest_module is being loaded. You are looking for the following line, and want to make sure it is not commented out.
LoadModule auth_digest_module libexec/apache2/mod_auth_digest.so
The stock Snow Leopard config file has it enabled, so chances are you won’t need to make any changes.
Step 3: Configure WebDAV
Next, edit the file /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-dav.conf. Add a section in it to create your new WebDAV share. Here’s what the new section should look like. As a security precaution, you should also go ahead and delete the /usr/uploads share that is set by default.
Alias /webdav "/Library/WebServer/WebDAV" Dav On <Directory "/Library/WebServer/WebDAV"> Order Allow,Deny Allow from all AuthType Digest AuthName WebDAV-Realm AuthUserFile "/usr/var/webdav.passwd" </Directory>
With the first line you’re telling Apache what URL to expose your WebDAV directory on. For example, if you are accessing the server via localhost, the above configuration would make your WebDAV URL equal to:
http://localhost/webdav/
With the Directory block you are actually configuring WebDAV access to the particular file location.
Line 9 is where this code block starts to differ from the configuration used by Manas. Unlike OmniFocus, VoodooPad works just fine with the more secure Digest authentication scheme, thus ensuring that your password isn’t sent over the wire in clear text.
Here we also, on line 13, tell Apache to only allow access by authenticated users. (The Manas configuration allowed read access by unauthenticated guest users.)
Step 4: Create user accounts and passwords
Now we use the htdigest tool to create your password file.
sudo htdigest -c /usr/var/webdav.passwd WebDAV-Realm "[username]"
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user [username]
Note that the “-c” specifies to create a new file. If you want to add additional users, get rid of the “-c” after the first time you issue htdigest.
Step 5: Create the necessary directories.
sudo mkdir -p /Library/WebServer/WebDAV
sudo mkdir -p /usr/var
Step 6: Setup permissions correctly.
sudo chown -R www:www /Library/WebServer/WebDAV
sudo chown -R www:www /usr/var
sudo chgrp www /usr/var/webdav.passwd
Step 7: Restart Apache gracefully.
sudo apachectl graceful
Step 8: Test WebDav
One convenient way to test your configuration is to attempt to mount your new WebDAV resource via Finder. To do this, open Finder and select Go > Connect to Server (⌘ K). Type your WebDAV URL, or http://localhost/webdav/ if you are on the server locally. Note that the trailing slash (”/”) is important, and you will not be able to connect without it.
You will be prompted by Finder to type in your username and password, and you need to be careful to enter these exactly as specified for the htdigest command.
Upon success, you will have mounted your WebDAV folder within Finder, and you should be able to copy a file to the folder.
Setting up VoodooPad using your new WebDAV server
For my needs, I’m planning to do all of my syncing on my local network. If you want to expose your WebDAV folder on the Internet, however, you will likely need additional configuration, such as setting up a dynamic DNS service, like DynDNS, and setting up your router/firewall to pass http traffic to your server.
Once any networking issues are resolved, configuring VoodooPad to use your new WebDAV server is pretty straightforward. On your primary machine, open the VP document that you want to sync, and then pull up the synchronization dialog from File > Synchronization Setup, enter your WebDAV URL, username and password. Your document is now being synchronized with the WebDAV server.
Since sync in VP is set up on a document by document basis, on your second machine you will need to create and save a new document. (I gave it the same name on both machines.) Then, when you set up sync for the second document, use the “Pair with document” option on the sync dialog to identify the corresponding document on your WebDAV server.
I was a bit worried that it might cause problems to sync the new document with the sample text to the real document in WebDAV but it all worked out just fine.
CloudCamp St. Louis: A Long Time Coming, a Short Time Until http://bit.ly/7ZJ7S3 [via twitter] ¶
CloudCamp St. Louis less than one week away. Time is really flying! http://bit.ly/128KB4 [via twitter] ¶
Listening to a talk on Hadoop’s HDFS: “One of the nodes is a single point of failure, but fortunately you only have one of those!” <– Doh! [via twitter] ¶
RT @puredanger uploaded new #lambdalounge videos this week http://bit.ly/6oGApQ <– Nice! Live (not quite) from the Appistry “auditorium” [via twitter] ¶
I’ve got so many balls in the air it’s not funny. Wait, that doesn’t sound quite right… [via twitter] ¶
CloudCamp St. Louis is in 15 days. Great location and sponsors in place. Register now and please RT! http://bit.ly/128KB4 [via twitter] ¶
- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja
Stumbled upon author Resig's blog today and really like his writing style. I hate reading on my computer screen, but may pick up the Early Access bits for this.
- Go: new open source programming language from Google
"Go is a new programming language from Google that aims for performance that is nearly comparable to C, but with more expressive syntax and faster compilation. What it won't do, however, is liberate the coding masses from bracist tyranny. Google's Go is yet another take on C."
- Programming Book Profits – John Resig
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RT @randybias Cloud can displace the client/server model… <– Kind of an apples and oranges comparison… [via twitter] ¶
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RT @samj Dear IBM, System Z10 mainframes are NOT #cloud. #kthxbai <– Seconded, ratified, #kthxbaibai [via twitter] ¶
IBM’s new “private cloud” is a 48-Processor System Z10 Mainframe. #TheyStillDontGetItFail http://bit.ly/3IiM4e [via twitter] ¶
New Facebook page for CloudCamp St. Louis http://bit.ly/2BqSjm <– Stop on by! [via twitter] ¶
CloudCamp St. Louis is ON! Join us December 10th. Register now at http://bit.ly/128KB4 [via twitter] ¶
Close to finalizing a date for CloudCamp St. Louis. Anyone out there interested in helping or sponsoring? [via twitter] ¶
- Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark]
Great article at Dive Into Mark that uses the history of the HTML IMG tag to make a great point: The ones that win are the ones that ship.
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- Scribe – C++ Logging Library
Heard about Scribe in a NoSQL East talk. It's a C++ logging library initially developed at Facebook.
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- Exclusive: Apple dictated Light Peak creation to Intel, could begin migration from other standards as early as 2010
"Apple had reached out to Intel as early as 2007 with plans for an interoperable standard which could handle massive amounts of data and "replace the multitudinous connector types with a single connector (FireWire, USB, Display interface).""
- MsgFiler
Using MsgFiler help me clear through over 3,000 email messages this weekend.
- The speed, size and dependability of programming languages
"The Computer Language Benchmarks Game is a collection of 429 programs, consisting of 13 benchmark reimplemented across 33 programming languages. It is a fantastic resource if you are trying to compare programming languages quantitatively. Which, oddly, very few people seems to be interested in doing."
- RCDefaultApp
Great app for dealing with hijacked file associations. Let's you bulk edit file associations in Mac OS X.
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- Intel’s Light Peak: One PC cable to rule them all
"Intel unveiled technology called Light Peak that it hopes ultimately will replace the profusion of different cables sprouting from today's PCs with a single type of fiber-optic link."
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- Where Is the Real-Time Web Message Bus?
Great article on the past and future of Web-scale real-time messaging.
- Behind The Scenes At Netflix | Unique Scoop
I'm amazed at how much manual processing goes into DVD handling at Netflix. I'd imagined they had automated much of the things they currently use manual labor for.
- Russian Billionaire Installs Anti-Photo Shield on Giant Yacht | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
This laser-based anti-digicam shield is awesome. Hope the paparazzi carry film.
- State of Drupal (September 2009)
I flipped through Dries' "State of Drupal" slides from DrupalCon Paris and they looked great. He includes an interesting discussion of the innovation process, and how it is applied to Drupal development. I can't wait till I have time to watch the video. (I also can't wait for D7.)
- Meta tags – Webmasters/Site owners Help
An interview with Matt Cutts today highlighted the fact that Google ignored the "keywords" meta tag. This doc page contains a list of the meta tags that google looks at and cares about.
- Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this
I've got a Wave account (from I/O) but haven't played around with it much yet. Anyone out there using it actively?
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- Why Apple is betting on HTML 5: a web history
Nice history of HTML and related standards.
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- MailRaider – open Outlook .msg files on your Mac
- List of linguistic example sentences
Linguistic geekery.
- Does Software Development Have A Culture Of Rewarding Failure
- A Case for Valuing Twitter at $2.7 Billion – WSJ
A back-of-the-envelope calculation justifying Twitter's supposed billion dollar valuation.
- Music publishers: iTunes not paying fair share | Digital Media – CNET News
The music industry is clueless.
- How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed?
I've been annoyed by the recent trend of distributing Mac apps in .zip files. The trade-offs of the various methods is discussed in this article, in the context of the broader debate that's been raging.
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- The Dirty Little Secret About the "Wisdom of the Crowds" – There is No Crowd
"The findings showed that a small group of users accounted for a large number of ratings. In other words, as many have already begun to suspect, small but powerful groups can easily distort what the "crowd" really thinks, leading online reviews to often end up appearing extremely positive or extremely negative."
- How did Craigslist manage to become the king of classifieds?
More of a rant against Craigslist than anything else, but interesting nonetheless.
- Palm Dances Around Pre Sales Figures
TechCrunch on Palm's earnings call.
- Palm: 823,000 smartphone units shipped; Outlook lumpy
We're rooting for you Palm!
- The Anatomy of Determination
"In most domains, talent is overrated compared to determination—partly because it makes a better story, partly because it gives onlookers an excuse for being lazy, and partly because after a while determination starts to look like talent."
Generally speaking I love Paul Graham's essay's, and this may be the best one I've ever read.
- China’s Plan To Rule The Sun – Forbes.com
Awesome. Two gigawatt solar power field to be built in China. It will cover 25 sq. miles — about the area of Manhattan — in Inner Mongolia's Ordos Desert.
- Memo to Start-ups: You’re Supposed to Be Changing the World, Remember?
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- Nerd Venn Diagram [PIC]
Great! It's important for us geeks to understand the full spectrum of nerditude.
- Druplicon stress balls | Dries Buytaert
Awesomeness!
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- The Adobe and Omniture Acquisition: What It Means – Watching Websites
I wish them luck with this. Omniture has historically been very difficult to work with as a small customer. I hope they change this and produce something along the lines of Google Analytics that is a bit more accessible. Seems like the only way for them to achieve ubiquity.
- Why low-fidelity prototyping kicks butt for customer-driven design
I read an article about Paper Prototyping (the book and concept) some time ago that left a strong impression on me. One key idea: Make sure the "fidelity" of the prototype matches the stage of the product's development in order to focus customers on important elements of the design and more appropriately set customer expectations. This post is a good reminder.
- The Stats Are In: You’re Just Skimming This Article
If you all would commit to reading more, I'd commit to writing more
- Comment Systems Compared: WordPress, Intense Debate, Disqus
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RT @the_spinmd:The best/saddest/most frightening 9 mins and 30 secs you will spend this week: http://j.mp/mCfXW <– Wow! Scary, crazy, sad. [via twitter] ¶
- How to short-circuit the US power grid – tech – 11 September 2009 – New Scientist
Chinese researchers publish a paper on how to crash the US power grid.
- Yojimbo, and The Case for Anything Buckets – Shawn Blanc
An interesting counterpoint to Alex Payne's essay, but while it acknowledges Alex's post with a link, it fails to directly address the points he raises.
- Pear Note – Note Taking Utility for Mac – Useful Fruit Software
Interesting tool integrates note-taking (e.g. text files) with audio recordings.
- The Case Against Everything Buckets – Alex Payne
Eloquent but a tad overzealous essay against the category of PIM software e.g. Evernote, Devonthink, Yojimbo. I daresay not all buckets are created equal.
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- Entrepreneurs: Beware the curse of the new building | VentureBeat
"Stay hungry, stay lean." — Nuff said.
- Tornado Web Server
"Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure"
- HTML5 Super Friends Technical Details
- 12 Words You Can Never Say in the Office – CIO.com
Intranet, Extranet, Push Technology…
- Twitter for Entrepreneurs: 20 to Follow: Elite Tweets – BusinessWeek
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- Sun Customers: Oracle in it to Win
"We're in it to win it. IBM, we're looking forward to competing with you in the hardware business" — Larry Ellison
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Sprint Any Mobile, Anytime offers FREE unlim mobile-to-mobile http://bit.ly/3mHjqf <– Note, that’s *any* mobile on *any* carrier [via twitter] ¶
Sprint Any Mobile, Anytime offers FREE unlim mobile-to-mobile to everyone w/ a Pre, Everything Data plan http://bit.ly/3mHjqf <- Woohoo! [via twitter] ¶
- All the video-DSLR’s are broken
Interesting article on the "Rolling Shutter" problem with DSLR-shot video.
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I was looking for an iPod Touch with video camera. Would have made a nice cloud client. #disappointed [via twitter] ¶
- Canon EOS 7D 24p footage tries to make indie filmmakers / chain smokers out of us all
Great sample footage from the new Canon 7D. DSLR video is advancing pretty quickly. Another year or two and we'll have this level of video quality/functionality at the IXUS/Digital Rebel level.
- Palm Pre: Two Months In « random($foo)
Nice review of the Pre, two months in. Kudos again to Palm for supporting/tolerating the homebrew market.
- Storybird: cute web-based storybook publishing
This looks a pretty cool app for the kiddies.
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- Trapped Girls Updated Facebook Status Instead of Calling For Help
Sounds crazy but perhaps this is indicative of the future. I wonder what’s up with @911?
- When It Comes To Founding Successful Startups, Old Guys Rule
- Stanford’s open-source camera could revolutionize photography, you’ll still use ‘Auto’ mode
Would love to hack on an open source digicam
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RT @msgroner:For a guy that is looking at turning 40 years old, I liked this article very much. http://j.mp/yKlr4 [via twitter] ¶
Today’s Cloud Links http://bit.ly/3CTcSF [via twitter] ¶
Who’s in Second? State of the Cloud survey identifies cloud provider usage http://bit.ly/1IWWjg [via twitter] ¶
- Is the Palm Pre a failure? – ZDNet.com
“Palm needs to get more handsets running webOS in people’s hands. At this point, it’s competing with Android, not Apple.”
- Yojimbo vs. Evernote vs. Together vs. Journler vs. EagleFiler
I’ve been researching note-keeping software and these are the main ones that keep coming up. Lots of tradeoffs among this bunch.
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RT @bmichelson i’m of the opinion that SaaS runs/lives/is offered “on the cloud”; not offering “of the cloud” <– exactly! [via twitter] ¶
Webtide (Jetty) acquisition a shrewd cloud move by Intalio http://bit.ly/jbTVO <– Retweeting for folks not “sleepless in SF” last night [via twitter] ¶
Any opinion on note/PIM software for mac like Yojimbo, DevonThink, Together, SOHO, etc? Is there a cloud-friendly analogue? [via twitter] ¶
Is Cloud Computing Killing Open Source in Government? http://bit.ly/1jHzcM <– Value migration; the open source is still there. [via twitter] ¶
BetFair had to build private cloud b/c public would break the law (state gaming laws due to ec2 avail zones crossing boundaries) #icesummit [via twitter] ¶
451 Cloud Spectrum: Closed private, community private, cloud bursting, enterprise public, commodity public #icesummit [via twitter] ¶
No one is seeing cloudbursting in the wild. If you do, tell @rachelchalmers #icesummit [via twitter] ¶
Wikipedia kind of SaaS, kind of PaaS. When you read it, it’s SaaS, when you edit it’s PaaS #icesummit <– what do tweeple think about that? [via twitter] ¶
451 Group still arguing internally about term “private cloud”. Shout out to @ruv’s for “elastic computing” – @rachelchalmers #icesummit [via twitter] ¶
Platform as a service = Facebook, Salesforce AppExchange – @rachelchalmers #icesummit <– ??? [via twitter] ¶
Can Hadoop and “big data” processing be gateway drug for cloud, broadening the applicability of yesterdays grid – @rachelchalmers #icesummit [via twitter] ¶
RT @bmichelson: Illogical Headline? “Can Indian firms deliver cloud services from offshore?” http://bit.ly/4fSjq1 <– Only private clouds!!! [via twitter] ¶
RT @Werner: Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability – #Dijkstra [via twitter] ¶
RT @Lounibos: As the US learns to “save”, China learns to “Buy”…and most likely will do so online. Private, Public…think China Cloud! [via twitter] ¶
On my way over the 451 ICE Summit. Looking forward to seeing @rachelchalmers and company. [via twitter] ¶
RT @ruv: Sorry, But I’m going to have to PaaS on your SaaS because everything you provide looks like *aaS. <– ROTFL [via twitter] ¶
Great round up of analyst/media data-points on cloud computing -> http://bit.ly/3TVoJn [via twitter] ¶
Listening to a healthcare customer tell their (very cool) story to a Gartner analyst. Might be featured at their conference! [via twitter] ¶
“For the 2nd day in a row…” <– No slam on them BTW, just speaks to the different audiences the two companies speak to. #vmworld [via twitter] ¶
For the 2nd day in a row, when the Spring guys come up & pull up Eclipse, a segment of the crowd starts heading for the doors. #vmworld [via twitter] ¶
RT @samj:cloud infrastructure services (IaaS) are just the beginning & are relatively boring for all the attention they’ve received. <– +1 [via twitter] ¶
Maritz at #VMworld: If we’re not careful cloud may bcome the ultimate CA hotel – you can check your apps in but you can’t check them out. [via twitter] ¶
How to do “curated daily links” with #wordpress?? E.g. Post to delicious and once/day choose links to push to single post. Ideas? [via twitter] ¶
RT @samj:Top 250 #cloud companies http://bit.ly/1zzI1 <- adding @dediserve, @rackcloud, @appirio, @appistry <– Thx so much. Writing PR now! [via twitter] ¶
Speaker talking up “Pure Virtual” as a descriptor, meaning all resource usage abstracted. #vmworld #vcloud api session [via twitter] ¶
Is there a planned tweetup for #cloud folks at #vmworld? [via twitter] ¶
English getting cloudy. New verbs created: “Wrapper” e.g. “They wrapper and extend the vSphere API” #vmware [via twitter] ¶