Category: Technologies to build applications
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Elastic Beanstalk review
I have been doing a small scale trial of Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk. I have previously trialled Rackspace cloud. I am impressed Amazon’s with the ease of use and configuratibility. Amazon’s is very much the techies’ solution. Although Amazon Web Services console is very easy to use and a great way to get started you can…
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Joy reigns with AWS CloudFormation
Amazon’s relentless drive to make infrastructure management easier continues with their announcement of AWS CloudFormation. The big problem that ordinary people (well developers and techies anyway) have with cloudy stuff is that although it is easy to start-up one server, choreographing the creation of an entire system, for example a load-balanced, three-tier system remains difficult.…
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ColdFusion is a high level language; why does it capture less value?
I am a project manager and I have worked with both ColdFusion and Java development teams. I have often wondered why it is that ColdFusion developers get about 60% of the rate of the comparably skilled Java developer. ColdFusion is a high level language. The built-in features including authentication, search, clustering, image processing etc means…
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Flex London User Group (FLUG) January meeting
A review of the January FLUG Meetup at Academy Class. Great venue with great staff. Very interesting presentation on video and Nice Agency presented iWonder. This is the best executed cross-platform product I have seen for a long time. It really shows how Air can be used. I will consider using Air rather than native…
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk – free Tomcat clustering in the cloud
This came today. It is quite interesting. Scalable cloud management on Amazon. It is “free” which contrasts with other offerings. My guess is that even the most basic of cloud management offering from Amazon will do 90% of what a small app developer needs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk (beta) Easy to begin, Impossible to outgrow AWS…
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Install Railo in Tomcat – where do I put my files?
This is repost of my contribution to the Railo Google Group. Goal You are a Railo and Tomcat newbie and you want a directory to put your coldfusion files in. “tomcat\myapp\ROOT” would do nicely Preconditions (for me anyway) 64 bit Windows 7 home premium UAC turned off and stays off Java installed and JAVA_HOME set…
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Relative popularity of Java, ASP, Perl, PHP and Scala in print
When deciding what programming language to use for a project the answer is always “the one your team can use!” but even so it is interesting to compare the trends in the market. I have used Google Ngram Viewer to compare the frequency with which the names of various programming languages appear in books. If…
Dr James Bayley 