CUUG Talk on Cloud Computing

I’ll be giving a talk at the February 22, 2011 Calgary Unix User’s Group (CUUG) meeting, updating my previous talk to CJUG two years ago. Cloud Computing Speaker: Tom Malaher, NetStart Consulting Ltd. What is Cloud Computing? This talk will survey the landscape (cloudscape?), try to define cloud computing, where and how it can be used, and demo some live … [Read more…]

links for 2010-12-21

Software Engineering Doesn't work – Glenn Vanderburg "What then, does real software engineering look like? How can we consistently deliver high-quality systems to our customers and employers in a timely fashion and for a reasonable cost? In this talk, we'll discuss where software engineering went wrong, and build the case that disciplined Agile methods, far … [Read more…]

links for 2010-12-02

GeoScript — Multi-language geometry library Not sure exactly what I'm going to do with this, but it seems cool. Now with plotting. (tags: api development geometry java python jython javascript scala groovy graphics) Head JS :: The only script in your HEAD This looks really useful. Speeds page loading AND adds cool cross-browser functionality. (tags: … [Read more…]

links for 2010-11-20

SQLiteJDBC – Xerial – Trac Java "wrapper" around SQLite. Also includes native binary libraries for Win, Mac, Linux x86, plus a pure-java implementation for fallback (e.g. sparc). Still not convinced that SQLite is the way to go, but lots of things seem to use it… (tags: database java jdbc library sqlite) weka – Text categorization … [Read more…]