All Things Distributed
MARCH 26, 2008
Today Amazon Web Services launched two new features in Amazon EC2 that are essential tools in building highly resilient applications: Elastic IP addresses and Availability Zones. In summary: Elastic IP addresses are associated with a customer account and allow the customer to do its own dynamic mapping of IP address to instance.
The Agile Manager
MARCH 27, 2008
IT is primarily a business of people solving problems during the creation of assets that increase Ebitda. Problem solving requires talent, and most IT organisations have to contend with a shortage of talented people. To some extent this reflects limitations of the labour market. It’s also economic: highly capable IT professionals aren’t inexpensive, and most firms struggle with budgets and costs.
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Tim Kadlec
MARCH 26, 2008
Well that didn’t take long. It was just announced today that Opera’s developers have received the first 100 ⁄ 100 test score on the new Acid 3 test. There is apparently a small rendering glitch they still need to take care of, but this is really incredible progress considering the test was just formally announced on March 3rd. The Acid test, for those unaware, is a test page set up by the Web Standards Project (WASP) to allow browsers to test for compliance with various standar
All Things Distributed
MARCH 24, 2008
While the past months have been relatively quiet there is now a period coming up with public events that will take me across a few continents. The period already started two weeks with a Distinguished Lecture at the School of Computer Science of CMU. I had a wonderful day meeting many academics to discuss the relevance of particular research subjects for companies such as Amazon.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 18, 2008
A few days ago, on March 14, Amazon S3 quietly celebrated its 2nd birthday. I think congratulations are in order and I certainly wish the service "many happy returns of this day". That S3 is growing up fast is obvious from the number of objects the customers trust us with.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 16, 2008
Today I finished processing my first set of High Dynamic Range images. HDR is where you take 3 shots of an object using automatic exposure bracketing, in this case at [-2, 0, +2]. Each of the images will have details of areas (highlight, shadows) that the others do not have.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 18, 2008
On Thursday I'll be on stage at the Under the Radar conference for a fireside chat with Robert Scoble. The Under the Radar folks have asked for input into what questions Robert should ask me. The chat will be focused on cloud computing and related topics, so if you have questions, post them on their blog.
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Tim Kadlec
MARCH 20, 2008
Finding purely static websites today is becoming harder and harder. The line between website and web application blurs more and more as clients want more interactivity and real-time interaction on their site. This rich experience raises accessibility concerns though. To create a lot of these dynamic interfaces, we often have to use (X)HTML elements outside of their semantic meaning.
Tim Kadlec
MARCH 17, 2008
While at SXSW, I had the privilege of attending a panel called Respect! During the panel, Jason Santa Maria made a comment that really struck me. He said that it’s “difficult to respect what I don’t understand” How very true. Respecting what we don’t understand is if not impossible then extremely hard to do. Without some sort of knowledge of the process and steps involved in arriving at the solution, how can we really respect the work required to make the solution?
Tim Kadlec
MARCH 5, 2008
After looking at XPath and how it can be used to quickly traverse the document tree, I also thought I’d take a look at the W3C Selectors API as it kind of falls in that same line. At this point, it none of the major browsers support it. However, any WebKit build (Safari’s engine) since February 7th supports it, and it looks like IE8 will be supporting it as well.
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