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Comment on Forget Cloud Computing. Think As-A-Service! by cleve

cleve — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:45:08 +0000

Thanks for the comments. I will definitely follow up with PSI-aaS examples. I’ve been having discussions with a few people around ‘cloud computing for the masses’ and need to find the time to write them up.

Soon…:)

Comment on Forget Cloud Computing. Think As-A-Service! by cesar santamaria

cesar santamaria — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:03:14 +0000

It could be nice if you could pick those cloud examples and try to get deeper on (P-S-I)aaS.

Great article; pretty straight to the ground about cloud computing.

Comment on Infrastructure as a Service : Just Compute and Go! by Greg Wolejko

Greg Wolejko — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:54:36 +0000

I remember when first Capistrano came out.
I was backend guy in an heavy-weight Java project and was constantly fighting the issues with deploying apps on remote server(s).
Reading about Capistrano was an eye-opening experience for me.
There was no turning back after that….

Comment on Forget Cloud Computing. Think As-A-Service! by Jorge Garifuna

Jorge Garifuna — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:44:26 +0000

Glad you nailed this baby on the head. I will be looking forward to your upcoming posts about each service.

Comment on Ruby is the R in Rails by cleve

cleve — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:01:34 +0000

I see where your coming from and agree in part. I think all the Ruby implementations that target specific integration needs are useful but you only need one of each. Ruby.NET will probably become a distraction and fold under the might of IronRuby.

As for Rubinius and MRI/YARV, the competition will yield better results in the long run for all. One of the results being the RubySpec that will be much better with input from multiple implementation teams. I don’t put much value behind a spec that has a single implementation to its name.

As for Maglev, that’s deliberately trying to make some waves but until I’ve touched it, I’ll reserve comment.

As for the Microsoft No Choice, No Brainer - its appealing for a while, but that’s simply not a place I’d like live, only visit! I like options.

Comment on Ruby is the R in Rails by Sebastian Zarzycki

Sebastian Zarzycki — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:37:01 +0000

The problem with Ruby right now is (as I see it) old “chicken or egg” dillemma. Ruby isn’t going enterprise, because enteprise has to be ensured that everything will go well. But if Ruby will not be embraced by enterprise, there is a risk that it will never evolve since there are lots of smart folks on enterprise side and their voice and input is crucial (read : solve scalability) for further evolution. I don’t want to be mean, but when I see ruby 1.9 changes, I can’t help thinking that there is someone there behind Matz, who loves php hacking and forcing him to spend time arguing whether they should use sign : or => or # for this and that. As if Ruby syntax isn’t wicked enough.

I was amazed looking at Maglev presentation, it’s really hard to believe that it could be so fast. And it’s not just talk about how to speed up things but very essential point from where ruby/rails can ride into enteprise hands and be used safely and successfuly. I’m just not sure that I like the scattered effort to improve Ruby. I hate this in Java community, this pretty much killed Java for me and made tedious, boring and overly complicated. Now I see the very same in Ruby, but from different angle - now we have handful of language implementations. I can understand competition, but soon we will hit 10 ruby implementations - that’s insane. Why can’t those people just gather and think together? Now, when I’m going to build application, BEFORE I even go into framework/orm system pick, I will spend another n hours on choosing the very implementation. Sigh. Unity may have its own quirks, but, c’mon, ASP.NET is way easier. And it’s not because of api or framework or even language. It’s because you don’t have to spend 50% of your development time on making choices and praying to Sparta gods that those choices will turn out to be good ones. And microsoft can just focus on improving one single united environment to make it easier for developers.

“Show me the money” pretty much nailed this. Developers have to be attracted more. Managers have to be attracted more. Maybe we should try again with this “development 10 times faster” lines and make them actually true for large apps…

Comment on A note to the reader by Miro

Miro — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:33:59 +0000

Welcome to the dark side…

Comment on A note to the reader by rattkin

rattkin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:32:09 +0000

Speaking of dance…
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

Comment on A note to the reader by cleve

cleve — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:44:17 +0000

okay, you got me. I will not pass on that…;-)

Comment on A note to the reader by Greg Wolejko

Greg Wolejko — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:09:26 +0000

there is definitely one thing missing from the list
semantic web and the whole information architecture, modeling not only data but the relations between…
sounds cool? or will you pass on that?