QCon 2009 - Here I Come!
I am officially a lucky son of a gun. After walking away with a Wii at the 2007 No Fluff Just Stuff conference in London, I am now the proud owner of the willie wonker free pass to QCon 2009.
The guys at InfoQ announced that they would round up all the bloggers [...]
Infrastructure as a Service : Just Compute and Go!
Context: Some Investment Bank, Some large project, Some time ago…
Me: Wait up Scott (Scott is our SysAdmin. Disclosure: We still are drinking buddies!)
Scott: What now Gibbon! Whatever you’re selling, I ain’t buying…
Me: Stop your whinging you miserable jobsworth. I need 10 Linux servers tomorrow for about 5 hours of performance testing.
Scott: LOL [...]
Ruby is the R in Rails
I would love to have attended RailsConf 2008 but alas you can only do so much in a day. Although this was a Rails conference, it seems that this year there was less talk about Rails and more about Ruby. This is hardly surprising really given that Rails is just a web framework. [...]
Forget Cloud Computing. Think As-A-Service!
S3, EC2, Google App Engine, Gmail, Salesforce.Com are all in the cloud. But what does in the cloud mean? Typically, when you ask people what is cloud computing, that is where the confusion begins. As an industry we always allow the key market makers to spin the bullshit that invariably plunges us into [...]
A note to the reader
Over the last couple of months I’ve been asking myself where my interests lie and that this should be reflected in my blog. But before I could do that I had to be honest with myself. So, I stood up one day, butt naked, well semi-clad and chanted:
“I no longer write production quality [...]
