cloud computing

ETE 2012 – Rick Nucci – Rein in the Cloud Chaos/Best Practices – Why Your Cloud Strategy Must Start with an Integration Strategy

From the abstract: CIOs today have the opportunity to become cloud champions in their organizations, building innovative new IT models that drive new business opportunities. Whether your business is purchasing a single cloud application or driving a company-wide cloud strategy, it is essential to centralize, secure and manage the flow of information in and out … Read More

DevNews #44 – Grails, Griffon, Apache Tika, our favorite developer tools and more

Rich Freedman lent some time to talk to Ken Rimple tonight over skype and re-launch the Developer News series, which has been on hiatus since February. Here are some of the topics they discussed: Apache Tika – Apache Tika Griffon 0.9.5 released – 120 plugins?? Wow… Grails 2.0.3 is available Apache Tomcat 7.0.27 released with … Read More

Spring 3.1 – Environment Profiles

Spring 3.1 Environment Profiles Profiles Spring 3.1 now includes support for the long awaited environment aware feature called profiles. Now we can activate profiles in our application, which allows us to define beans by deployment regions, such as “dev”, “qa”, “production”, “cloud”, etc. We also can use this feature for other purposes: defining profiles for … Read More

TechCast #67 – Ryan Campbell of CloudBees on Dev@Cloud and Run@Cloud

In this episode, Ryan Campbell joins Ken to talk about the CloudBees development platform, Dev@Cloud, and Java runtime platform, Run@Cloud.  Dev@Cloud can host private maven snapshot and release repositories, your GIT or SVN version control, and hosted Jenkins CI testing. For information about CloudBees or about the platforms, including hosted Hudson and open source CI … Read More

DevNews #38 – The world is changing (a bit) and more

This week we catch up with all of the world’s news in what normally is a quiet August. Then we discuss some new releases in the Firefox world, the new Java Lambda decision, Java 7 features, and a warning about Java 7 and Lucene. Hosts:  Jason Gtitman and Ken Rimple Show Notes Lamba decision for … Read More

DevNews #17 – Roo, Gradle, Grails, Rails, Security and Cloud Backup

Our development news episode today is brought to you by the letter ‘C’.  C is for Cloud. Links: Using gradlew (the Gradle Wrapper) for Easy Gradle Execution: http://mrhaki.blogspot.com/2010/05/gradle-goodness-use-gradlew-for-easy.html Cucumber, a brief overview: http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/joeydotnet/archive/2010/06/01/cucumber.aspx Using OpenID authentication on App Engine: http://blog.notdot.net/2010/05/Using-OpenID-authentication-on-App-Engine What’s a plugin-oriented architecture (Grails plugins and web slices):  http://blog.springsource.com/2010/06/01/whats-a-plugin-oriented-architecture/ Using SpringSource Tool Suite 2.3.3.M1 with Roo … Read More

ETE 2010 #3 -Thursday Evening Podcast with speakers from ETE

We held an open podcast on the evening of April 8th at the happy hour reception of the 2010 Philly Emerging Tech show.  I had invited James Ward and Michael Cote to sit with me, and see what developed.  Well, beyond the happy hour food and beer, which flowed freely, so did the conversation.  Adam … Read More

ETE 2010 #1 – Michael Cote of RedMonk on Cloud Computing

Chariot Solutions TechCast – ETE 2010 Conference Session #1 – Keynote Session from Michael Coté, analyst from RedMonk I first ran into Michael Coté’s work back in 2008 when we put together the Chariot Cloud Con East conference. Among the many grandstanding blogs about cloud computing at the time, RedMonk was a place we could … Read More

ETE 2010: Cloud Keynote Speech w/Michael Coté of Redmonk now available

We’ve just published our Friday, April 9 keynote speech with Michael Coté of RedMonk. You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the direct link for iPadders, or via the embedded player: the link for iPadders… RedMonk an industry analyst firm that covers cloud computing and mobile application development, among other areas.  They deliver … Read More