is this a renaissance for the database? today we have new problems and new challenges, but the computing power we now have provides alternatives. This in turn is changing the approaches that are bei...Read More
Amazon launch of Cloudfront, a tightly integrated content delivery service built over their S3 offering promises content delivery routed to the nearest edge location, giving optimal performance to the...Read More
It took me 2 days to figure out that it will not work when inside the rear window of the car. But, once i had it in direct sunlight the little red LED came on and i was filled with happiness. After a ...Read More
Poor Rod Johnson had obviously been up all night working on his Java One slides (there was a deadline on the 14th) . He looked completely exhasted and near drifted off to sleep at some moments; obviou...Read More
It was interesting to hear about the problems the BBC has in identifying the location of requests in order to both serve advertisements and apply DRM. We tend to forget that the BBC gets a near set am...Read More
Its been interesting to listen to speakers, each of which portraits the strategies and principles and this time was the turn of Randy Shoup. His four strategies for architectures for scale. Partition ...Read More
As expected a full energy opinionated talk on why REST together with the internet as your enterprise bus is leaps and bounds above anything vendors or WSDL and The WS-* (death star) specs have to offe...Read More
Another excellent talk in which Kent provided his latest views on how he thinks problems should be solved from the design point of view. He started by following on from his keynote, pushing that we mu...Read More
A simple journey to put across some guidelines to aid in designing user interfaces. The talk lacked a bit of depth for me, in that some of the observations felt a little personal rather than having mu...Read More
Ari Zilka CTO of Terracota gave an excellent presentation on how the product works and how it can be used. I was not going to attend this session, but he was excellent on the previous sessions panel, ...Read More
