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Four short links: 29 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 29, 2009

Julie Learns to Program -- blog from our own Julie Steele as she learns her first programming language. The point is: it’s in me. I wasn’t sure that is was, and now I know—it is. And what, exactly, is “it”? It is the bug. It is the combination of native curiosity and stubbornness that made me play around with...

Four short links: 3 September 2009

By Nat Torkington
September 2, 2009

Many Eyes Make All Bugs Shallow, Especially When The Eyes Get Smarter (David Eaves) -- Mozilla released bug submission data, and David realizes with some minor investment (particularly some simpler vetting screens prior to reaching bugzilla) bug submitters could learn faster. For example, a landing screen that asks you if you've ever submitted a bug before might take newbies...

Four short links: 4 August 2009

By Nat Torkington
August 3, 2009

NASA Nebula Services/Platform Stack -- The NEBULA platform offers a turnkey Software-as-a-Service experience that can rapidly address the requirements of a large number of projects. However, each component of the NEBULA platform is also available individually; thus, NEBULA can also serve in Platform-as-a-Service or Infrastructure-as-a-Service capacities. Bundles RabbitMQ, Eucalyptus, LUSTRE storage, Fabric deployment, Varnish front-end, MySQL and more. (via...

My Fear Of Commodity Storage

By Chris Josephes
January 27, 2009

Despite the Barracuda issues, Seagate is probably one of the better consumer drive vendors out there. I give them credit for offering recovery services to anyone that needs it; although I have the benefit of making that statement without...

Beefy Storage Offering From Sun

By Chris Josephes
November 11, 2008

Sun Microsystems revealed their new enterprise storage solution today. The first enterprise product to market combining HDDs and SDDs.

Microsoft Live Mesh for Mac

By Todd Ogasawara
November 5, 2008

Microsoft Live Mesh is a free (so far) online storage service. Microsoft recently released a beta client for Mac OS X Leopard. I installed it on my MacBook and took it for a spin. You can find nearly a dozen screenshots illustrating the installation procedure and initial configuration.

5... 4... 3... 2... Ignition... We Have: AWS EC2 Persistent Storage Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Liftoff!

By M. David Peterson
August 21, 2008

As was previously announced to be within a few shorts weeks of becoming publicly available, Amazon Web Services has launched the official public beta of its AWS EC2 Persistent Storage Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) solution. Something tells me there's going to be a lot of smiling faces launching new EC2 instances today. ;-)

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