Monthly Archives: June 2008

Amazon’s blueprint for cloud computing | Outside the Lines – CNET News.com “Werner Vogels, vice president and CTO at Amazon, is talking about why Amazon is in the cloud computing business, how it got there and why customer should want … Continue reading →

Looks Good Works Well: Announcing: Jiffy Firebug Extension for Viewing Client Side Performance Data “Jiffy—an end-to-end system for instrumenting your web pages, capturing client-side timings for any event that you determine, and storing and reporting on those timings. You run … Continue reading →

Bike Fix-it Index Page “It’s dangerous to treat your bike as a mechanical mystery. Keeping your bike in good condition, well-tuned and well-maintained, makes you a safer biker.” (tags: bicycle bike cycling maintenance howto fix diy mtb mountain_biking reference repair) … Continue reading →

catbird.org: Born (shoes)… again My Born shoes have cracked a sole again. As my wife blogs, “Are these shoes designed to only last 6 months? Ridiculous. I won’t even bother contacting the company this time. But really, we are done … Continue reading →

Zoomii.com – The “Real” Online Bookstore It’s built all using Amazon Services (EC2, S3, ECS) and it doesn’t use Flash or any other browser extension/plug-in. Neat! (tags: amazon books ec2 s3 search shopping javascript ui ux) PC World – Business … Continue reading →

Borders to cut jobs as systems are overhauled Borders is to axe an undisclosed number of jobs as it implements “fundamental change”. (tags: amazon audible audiobooks ebooks music retail business borders books) Massive Destruction Of Shareholder Value, Employee Morale and … Continue reading →

Official Google Blog: Our agreement to provide ad technology to Yahoo! “a non-exclusive advertising agreement that will provide Yahoo! with access to our AdSense for search and AdSense for content advertising programs on their U.S. and Canadian web properties. “ … Continue reading →

Get Iceberg! Develop Custom Applications Without Coding Hmm, I’m always skeptical of claims like this: “With Iceberg, any user can create a web application using its simple, DIY tools.”, but it’s worth a try… (tags: development software web2.0 RIA tools … Continue reading →

Tag Galaxy Awesome Flash-based Flickr tag browser (tags: flickr visualization photography search photo flash adobe) 50 Cool Things You Can Do with Google Charts API An interesting list of uses for Google Charts (tags: google charts api programming graphics applications … Continue reading →

Swish-e :: Home Page “A free open source system for indexing collections of Web pages or other files.. ideally suited for collections of a million documents or smaller… can index plain text, e-mail, PDF, HTML, XML, Word/PowerPoint/Excel…” (tags: search web … Continue reading →

Design Stencils – Yahoo! Design Pattern Library “Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following topics” (tags: design templates ui yahoo wireframe) Google … Continue reading →