Category: Infrastructure
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Jenkins and Hudson; from below stairs to cloud 9
A continuous integration server is an essential part of many teams’ workflow so I have been following the on-off relationship of Jenkins and Hudson with some interest. I already use cloudy issue control (in fact I sell training for FogBugz) and now one can get cloudy CI servers as well. Read more at… http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/08/cloudbees_eclipse_plug_in/
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Amazon Content Delivery Network
In an earlier post I refered to Damon Hart-Davis’ investigation of cloud services because it followed the same path as my own with similar conclusions. He has now published a fourth part on Amazon Content Delivery Network (CDN). A CDN caches static resources closer to the user. This gives your user a faster browsing experience…
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What is cloud computing?
In an earlier post I reviewed the Cloud Computing World Forum show in London. In response I recieved a comment. How cloud computing is different from the Internet. More precisely, What is the difference between a “Hosted website” and “SaaS application”. One of the issues that was clear at the conference was the fluffy nature…
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Cloud Computing World Forum review – Microsoft strong, others weak
I attended the Cloud Computing World Forum at Olympia on Tuesday. It was good size show and reasonably well attended for what is an Enterprise topic. The keynote speakers were all heavyweight and gave good talks. The show was themed A,B,C = approach, build and communicate (social) and this worked well. What was odd is…
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unix shell or Windows Powershell?
Chris and I are building a complex application called Keyapt SMS. It has a mobile component, a server component and a pure JavaScript front end. The source and build control requirements for this are complex. We manage the source and build control in FogBugz and Kiln (Mercurial). [We also provide training in these]. Chris a…
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Amazon EC2, Rackspace or Google App Engine?
In an earlier post I blogged about my experience on Amazon EC2 (I like it) and referred the reader to an article on The Register from Damon Hart-Davis who is following a similar journey. Damon has continued his investigations and his next article is available. Readers of his earlier post will be pleased to see…
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Which mobile platform should I develop for?
I have been working in the enterprise Java space for many years and this domain is now rapidly becoming “legacy” (ie. the stuff that just works and makes the business all its money). The exciting sexy stuff is all MOBILE! So where should I be putting my developement effort? Android, Apple, Blackberry or Windows? We…
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FogBugz training tip: take care with Windows symlinks in Mercurial (Kiln)
We had a strange problem this weekend. I develop on Windows 7, my co-worker uses Ubuntu. After he upgraded his Ubuntu and got a more recent version of Mercurial he could no longer download the repository. The problem was that Ubuntu hg was choking on a file that had once been a Windows symlink. Some…
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Play a wav sound when your ant build has completed
I have spent the day doing various ant builds. I leave the build running and sometimes don’t notice that it has finished or failed along the way. Wouldn’t it be nice if the ant script went beep on success or failure? Well at the Windows 7 command prompt you can do prompt> (CALL ant dist…
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Amazon IAM does not support Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Identity and Authorisation Management is now out of beta and has both a GUI and a command line unfortunately it still does not work with Elastic Beanstalk. It gets worse. You single username and password provides complete access to all Amazon properties including shopping and associates. So unless you want to share this with…
Dr James Bayley 