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Last year I moved web site, database and email services for the SAP SAPPHIRE event to the Amazon Cloud. We needed to scale our infrastructure dramatically to support the event for about 4 months out of the year. This was our second year running the conference in the Amazon Cloud and we were able to scale up nicely to handle the traffic. There were still issues.
I am spending some time putting together some recommendations for a vendor on their API. They are a payment gateway, that offers something no other payment gateway offers. I really feel they could rock the market if they were better known.
The problem is that they don't have a product manager and...
When it comes to HTML5, for some reason the less visual and more functional aspects of HTML5 is what excites me. I was just reading more about the HTML5 Microdata specification.
Microdata is part of the HTML5 specs that is relevant to...
Amazon Web Services released support for Bucket Policies within Amazon S3 Cloud Storage today. 
I have been monitoring the traffic to several major technology blogs lately. This research is based upon specific domains with specific brand associate with them:
TechCrunch
Linode is a very focused and simple Virtual Private Hosting (VPS) company that delivers some very affordable cloud hosting solutions.
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I was just reading State of the Cloud over at Jack of all Clouds. They monitor the various players...
I am playing with different ways of monetizing my skills and knowledge. I wrote a white paper on how to setup your core email infrastructure in the Amazon cloud. I haven't spent a lot of time polishing, because I am not a writer. I have spent hundreds of hours polishing the approach.
I am offering this white p...
Dropbox just launched a new application programming interface (API) for their popular cloud storage platform. The
Its not often I blog about non technical issues and just rant and rave. This is one of those moments. This particular rant is about Allstate, and cutting through the hype.
I've been a loyal
I was just reading on the Programmable Web blog that they were acquired by Alcatel-Lucent. Not sure what this means for their content and direction.
I have always followed prog...
GoGrid just launched a complete overhaul of their systems including web site, platform and training materials. Since they are one of the leading cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, its pretty big news:
Ov...
Amazon S3 cloud storage has changed the way I manage files on my networks. I am centralizing all file storage across my web site and applications to Amazon S3. All heavy file types:
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Cookies store information about us and our surfing habits (and they are yummy). One of the secure things about a cookie is that you can only access it within the web site to which the cookie belongs.
So if you are visiting www.kinlane.com I can put a cookie on your computer, bu...
Wyse PocketCloud gives you access to a cloud, your PC, Remote Desktop Services, a Terminal Server, VMware View or virtual machine securely from your desktop and your
Tired of sending people to Amazon, Rackspace, or GoGrid. You can now start your own cloud computing provider.
TelasticStack allows you to offer your own brand of cloud servers:
Turnkey Cloud Platform
Deployment Within...
The Chromium team talked about improved Google Chrome plug-in security today. Apparently we are seeing more and more security exploits targeting browser plug-ins. Since many plug-ins are ubiquitous, they pose the most significan...
I'm waiting for a server to finish installing some updates. I close my Firefox...then try to open.
Then once I open I'm given option to upgrade my Firefox, why sure.
kinlane-productions2
Once I restart I get:
Chrome embraces Flas...
Amazon published today that Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports SSL encrypted connections. You can now generate an SSL certificate for each database instance.
Here are a few of the details abo...
I was mapping some subdomains to various Amazon S3 buckets today. I decided to use the new Amazon S3 interface available in the Amazon Console, instead of S3Fox for a change.
I was setting the permissions for a new bucket and I noticed kinlane-productions2 for each bucket. For some reason this has escaped me. I see in the
