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- Jon Chase
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Jetty is one of the best Java Servlet containers out there. I still don’t use it for production deployment (Tomcat has better monitoring capabilities I think), but it’s all I use for development. I’ve also been using Maven 2 a lot lately (although [...]
Time for the monthly update on the perceived marketing effectiveness of SendAlong’s site. I’ve been releasing a lot of updates lately, so hopefully some of the coolness and newness has trickled down into the SEO rankings.
Here are the results:
Compared to December’s results (I jumped from a 20 to a 48 overall), SendAlong’s score has [...]
Here’s some pretty big news:
* Sun just acquired MySQL – about 1 billion bucks – maybe now Sun will change its stock ticker to MYSQL?
* Oracle just acquired BEA – 8.5 billion bucks
Apologies for the long title.
This entry focuses on a recent issue when using Amazon’s S3 in combination with the popular JetS3t library (version 0.5.0). If that means absolutely nothing to you, you can stop reading this entry now:D.
Update: Amazon has reverted S3 back to its prior state, completely fixing this issue.
Update: new link added [...]
Quick update:
I’ve moved my personal blog from SendAlong’s domain over to the Juliesoft.com domain. The blog located at sendalong.com/blog is now the “official” SendAlong blog – it will cover product updates and such for SendAlong.
As long as you’re seeing this post in your RSS reader, you’re already subscribed to the new address for Jon’s [...]
SendAlong is just about feature complete for the 1.0 release, which will hopefully be in mid February.
To help roll out 1.0 smoothly to the general (paying) public, I’ll be running a beta program up through the 1.0 release.
Here’s where you can help: if you’re interested in helping shape SendAlong or just lending a helping hand [...]
Looks like there’s going to be a book coming out dedicated to development on Amazon’s suite of web services – S3 (Simple Storage Service), EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), SQS (Simple Queue Service), and FPS (Flexible Payments Service).
From the the O’Reilley site:
With this book, you’ll learn how companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) [...]
Update: See the bottom of the post for some updates.
I was delighted to find this timely article by 37Signals on credit card processing. I’ve been facing the question of how to process payments online and it’s very helpful to hear reports from successful businesses in the trenches.
It’s noted in their approach that they are [...]
I’ve only got a couple, mainly b/c I find the someone predicts, the more chance they have of being wrong:).
1. The Scala language will get more and more popular – it’s not a fad. I haven’t written a line of it, but man it looks good.
2. Apple will continue to do well, especially in [...]
It’s time for an update on the perceived marketing effectiveness of SendAlong’s site. Having just released a newly updated beta, let’s hope it does much better.
Alright, the results are in:
Compared to late October’s results, it looks like the grade has improved (although not as much as I would have liked), however there’s still a [...]
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