All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2008

Today marks the launch of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), the long awaited persistent storage service for EC2. Details can be found on the EC2 detail page, the press release and Jeff Barr's posting over on the AWS evangelists blog. Also the folks at Rightscale have two detailed postings: why Amazon EBS matters and Amazon EBS explained.

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Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 20, 2008

The big news in the Javascript community for the last week has been the announcement of ECMAScript Harmony. A lot of news is really just overblown, but this is a big development, and one that any Javascript developer should be following. Some Background. There’s been a lot of talk in the Javascript community over the past 9 years or so about the development of ECMAScript 4, what was to be the foundation for what was being called Javascript 2.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 30, 2008

IT lacks a consistent definition of exactly what it does vis-à-vis its organisational peers. Accounting is the language of business. Finance is how business gets capital. Marketing creates customers. Sales brings them in. Operations are how a business creates value. IT does … what, exactly? Creates new business offerings? Retains customers? Is how business gets done?

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Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 12, 2008

It’s no secret that the web design industry is often not given the respect it deserves. People treat it as if it’s a much simpler task than it really is. Forgive me if I come off sounding a bit arrogant, but it seems like people seriously underestimate the work involved in creating a quality web site. One issue, for example, is people expecting to see comps of work without payment.

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Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 11, 2008

There’s a lot of interesting new features being suggested for HTML5 and XHTML2. Some of them are extremely useful, some of them seem to be more questionable additions. One feature being implemented in HTML5 that I do like is the addition of custom data attributes to HTML elements. Manage Your Data. A custom data attribute is simply any attribute starting with the string “data-” They can be used to store data that you want kept private to the page (not viewable by the user) in c

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Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 3, 2008

I did what I said I told myself I would never do…I only posted one item the entire month. I always told myself that if I was going to have a blog going, I was going to commit to it and ensure that the blog never went stale…there would always be fresh content on my site. I think I may have underestimated the wonderful curves that life throws out there!

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