Category: Thoughts
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Why Amazon EC2 Outage Won’t Change Anything in Cloud Computing
Warning: strong cloud advocacy ahead. With the recent Amazon EC2 outage, many Internet companies such as the walled garden Quora and even one of our competitors remained offline for 24 hours or more. Amazon does not seem to have fully recovered yet, after almost 48 hours, which is a bit disappointing. I have been barely…
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Scared Of Metered Pricing
This is what we have come to understand lately: pay-as-you-go scares customers away. The assumption behind a pay-as-you-go, or metered pricing plan is that we will think about it as fair. The more we consume, the more we pay. Simple. After all, there are a lot of things, typically utilities, that are metered: electrical power,…
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Microsoft’s Approach To Open Source
Read this: Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and reusable components on the ASP.NET platform. […] In the near term, the Orchard project is focused on delivering a .NET-based CMS application that will allow users to rapidly create content-driven Websites, and an extensibility framework that will allow developers and…
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Small Changes To Boost Morale
When you have a dark mood, everything seems to go bad and weird bugs pop out from nowhere, there’s little you can do to boost morale and get back to happiness. One thing that works well for me is changing something. Mobile Twitter client, desktop wallpaper, desk orientation, whatever can be changed with minimum effort.…
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TrendMicro SafeSync
Lately I felt the need to have all my 60 GB of personal data stored in the cloud, mostly because maintaining a backup plan is a pain. Besides, I’m using an oldish PC with a dual-core processor, 4GB of RAM Windows Server 2008 as NAS, which is a bit overkill and wastes a lot of…