Last week, I gave an in-house presentation on cloud computing. I walked through an overview of cloud computing – characteristics (on demand, elastic, fully managed by provider), why are we interested (virtualization, distributed computing, increased access to high-speed internet, weak economy), various types (public, private, virtual private cloud) and services models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.) Though [...]
UPDATE: Assembla.com has changed their ways. The bottom line is their free, private spaces hosting option is no longer available. In my opinion, they still have a valuable service, it’s simply not as great now that I have to pay for it. A good while back, I commented about SVN Hosting through SVNRepository.com. [...]
I woke up this morning (whew) wondering what percentage of the development community is privileged enough to deploy their own stuff. I wonder because I think I’m out of touch in this area. Over the past 6 or so years I’ve been handing off installation/deployment duties to other groups. My development teams and I were [...]
Continue reading about Multiple Web Sites with Host Headers?
Since being turned onto SVN no so long ago, I’ve been looking for hosting. Per a recommendation spotted here, I picked up an account with SVN Repository about two weeks ago. So far, it’s been a flawless experience. Here’s what I can tell you: I purchased their small business plan which gives me 2GB of [...]
My son was born 41 days ago and I felt it was my parental duty to show him off to the world (or at least to family and friends.) Since I spend most of my day online, I figured a blog would be super convenient (and non-intrusive) way for me to share photos of my [...]