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Amazon EC2 Running Windows Server

Luc — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:03:31 +0000

I just came across this link a few minutes ago.

http://aws.amazon.com/windows/

From Amazon,

Starting later this Fall, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Today, you can choose from a variety of Unix-based operating systems, and soon you will be able to configure your instances to run the Windows Server operating system. In addition, you will be able to use SQL Server as another option within Amazon EC2 for running relational databases.

Amazon EC2 running Windows Server or SQL Server provides an ideal environment for deploying ASP.NET web sites, high performance computing clusters, media transcoding solutions, and many other Windows-based applications. By choosing Amazon EC2 as the deployment environment for your Windows-based applications, you will be able to take advantage of Amazon’s proven scalability and reliability, as well as the cost-effective, pay-as-you-go pricing model offered by Amazon Web Services.

Our goal is to support any and all of the programming models, operating systems and database servers that you need for building applications on our cloud computing platform. The ability to run a Windows environment within Amazon EC2 has been one of our most requested features, and we are excited to be able to provide this capability. We are currently operating a private beta of Amazon EC2 running Windows Server and SQL Server.

This is great news for windows programmers.

Microsoft and Nokia adopt jQuery

admin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:24:58 +0000

he jQuery blog today announced that ‘Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. So the open-source javascript framework will be shipped with Visual Studio and ASP.NET MVC. This is kickass news because JQuery is just.. kickass

101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes

Johnnyboy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:16:13 +0000

Very cool video, if your looking for any quick tips about photoshop it’s definitly in here.

Oracle Aquires Skywire Software

Johnnyboy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:04:49 +0000

Big news today from one of the biggest name in software development. Oracle has made official today the acquisition of Skywire Software a leading provider of insurance and document management business applications.

Now if Oracle can confirm the pending acquisition of AdminServer, Oracle could really solidify its place as the most complete business solution software package available on the market.

Skywire Software’s also brings to the table some very good customer communication management and document automation capabilities that will greatly expand Oracle Enterprise Content Management.

Of course the transaction is still subject to customary closing condition but everything is expected to be completed by the second half of 2008

The Hello World Collection

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:23:48 +0000

As a developer what was the first application you’ve ever coded ? I know mine and every developer at tekee was an Hello World. I think my first language was in VB 6. What was yours ?

PHP

int main(){

     write("Hello World!\n");
  }

Here’s a site with 366 versions of Hello World.