Just this week I was reading up on two of my hosting providers; smugmug for photographs and videos, and respositoryhosting.com for source control and project tracking. It occurred to me that both companies keep massive uptime and costs to a minimum by using cloud computing technologies. The provider for both being Amazon Web Services. Smugmug... Continue reading →

A couple weeks ago on the Amazon Web Services Blog I experienced a stick up. I shot off a comment about how cool it would be to see some of the AWS Stickers in the wild as one of the comment writers wrote. Jeff Barr, one of the AWS Evangelists, sent me some stickers via... Continue reading →

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Recently Microsoft updated their Windows Azure Site with some new whitepapers. The cool thing is, some of these papers I was directly involved with helping to create! That makes me a little biased in saying, I’m stoked that they’ve been released! 🙂 So if you’re in the market for some cloud technology and happen to... Continue reading →

Yes, 10 times better. That’s the difference between an average software programmer on an average software team and a rock star programmer on a rock star development team. The difference is huge, and I’ve been reminded of this lately. How is this different? How is the rock star team 10x better? How is it 10x... Continue reading →