15 posts tagged “cloud”

Went to the PHP Conference today and attended a talk by David Axmark (co-creator of MySql) about Drizzle !

Drizzle is the new database for clouds :

• http://drizzleproject.org/
• http://drizzle.org/wiki/Main_Page
• https://launchpad.net/drizzle-umbrella
• https://launchpad.net/drizzle-php-ext

The latest flickr / googlemaps / yahoomaps geomap geotag mapping craze seems to be GeoShapes and GeoShaping. Which is basically giving a shape to a locality !

See Flickr

• http://where-what-when.husk.org/ powered by http://appjet.com/
  
• http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/
• http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/01/12/living-in-the-donut-hole/
  
• http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.places.findByLatLon.htm
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/3034389047/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/scraplab/3035624594/

• http://www.hackdiary.com/2008/11/16/google-map-of-london-with-flickr-shape-data-overlaid/
• http://gist.github.com/25502

• http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/
• http://www.ygeoblog.com/blog/2008/11/21/yahoo-geoplanet-and-yql/
• http://upcoming.yahoo.com/services/api/metro.getForLatLon.php

You dont need an Amazon AWS Account, a credit card or even need ElasticFox !

JumpBox will automatically start up an Amazon AMI for you on the cloud and shut it down one hour later !

Try an Amazon EC2 JumpBox with Zenoss for yourself for an hour @ http://www.jumpbox.com/app/zenoss

Just give them your email address your get three URLs:

• Amazon EC2 JumpBox Admin https://ec2-<random-ip-addr>.compute-1.amazonaws.com:3000
  
• Amazon EC2 JumpBox Zenoss Admin http://ec2-<random-ip-addr>.compute-1.amazonaws.com/jblogin.html
  
• Amazon EC2 JumpBox Zenoss User http://ec2-<random-ip-addr>.compute-1.amazonaws.com/

Surely this is the future of all software demos for distros, software appliances, virtual machines, etc etc ?

http://aws.amazon.com/devpay/

Amazon DevPay is a simple-to-use online billing and account management service that makes it easy for businesses to sell applications that are built in, or run on top of, Amazon Web Services. It is designed to make running applications in the cloud and on demand easier for developers.

http://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/estimated-taxes-text.html

Value Added Tax for European Union Customers

Amazon Web Services LLC is currently required to charge value added taxes (VAT) on sales of Amazon Web Services to European Union customers. All VAT collected from customers in the European Union will be paid to the tax authority of the appropriate EU member state.

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You can now use rPath rBuilder Catalogue to manage your Amazon EC2 Cloud account !

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1693&categoryID=204

Sun have created a 32-bit AMI based on OpenSolaris 2008.05 (with packages updated to build 91).

Components included within this AMI are Drupal 6.4 (in pre-configured state), Apache 2.2 , PHP 5.2.6, MySQL 5.0.x, Memcached 1.2.5, phpMyAdmin, Dtrace probes and Sample Dtrace scripts.

This AMI is provided by Sun Microsystems and requires registration.

http://blogs.sun.com/ec2/

http://blogs.sun.com/ec2/entry/opensolaris_based_ami_catalog_on

Just discovered the Amazon EC2 Application Directory which includes such gems as:

• g.ho.st (g.ho.st)
  
• soasta
• everystockphoto
• newrelic
• virtuoso
  

Amazon EC2 S3 broke on 20 July 2008

Amazon are proud of our operational performance in operating Amazon S3 for almost 2.5 years, we know that any downtime is unacceptable and we won't be satisfied until performance is statistically indistinguishable from perfect.

flickr tag galaxy "tag cloud" viewer actually "tag galaxy" viewer !

Here's what you'll see if you search for "ubuntu" !

Taggalaxy

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Keep clicking until you can see actual flickr photos !

Taggal2