Presenting Grails at Refresh Events
We’re please to announce, our very own Adam Thody will be presenting a talk on the benefits of Grails at The Drake Hotel in Toronto on March 15th.
Programming with Java for web applications is often viewed as less than pleasurable. This perception is exacerbated when enterprise Java frameworks are stacked up next to all the [...]
Cloud Computing Industry Map
Diagram mapping various cloud computing vendors and technologies.
A cloud taxonomy & ontology
I listened to John Willis speak last month at the Toronto Cloud Computing Conference and Cloud Camp. John is a prolific blogger and well connected within the Toronto tech scene. He had been working on a diagram (then draft 1.3) to attempt to explain cloud computing.
I since then found this diagram on Chris Hoff’s blog:
Check out the original [...]
Evaluating Meta Data for Search
When you deploy a search engine and index content that needs to be searched, there’s often a lot of information that could be pulled in as meta data – how do you evaluate it and decide what to keep? This post might help.
8 Benefits of having a Meta Data Dictionary for your Search Engine
When you’re deploying a search engine – big or small, for intranets or web sites, creating a meta data dictionary (or meta data registry) and making sure you stick to it. This is important for many reasons, and is most important when content is being indexed into the search engine from more than one source [...]
You know cloud computing is hitting the mainstream when …
In this article, Forbes.com (of Forbes magazine fame) discusses the term mult-tenancy, the underpinnings to why the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model and cloud computing in general works.
Cloud computing in a bubble economy
If you’re counting on your established IT vendor to migrate you gracefully into its own emerging cloud-based environment, think again. Focusing on short-term financial results, its shareholders are demanding that it leverage the traditional cash cow of software license fees and maintenance revenue to the hilt. To the extent [...]
Seven reasons cloud computing works in a tough economy
Typically, during a recession, IT departments will assume a conservative spending approach and limit adoption of new technologies, but cloud computing offers an alternative to that route. Interest in cloud computing continues, and is even accelerating, as IT departments are challenged by slim budgets and limited resources. There are seven reasons the down economy is [...]
Toronto Cloud Computing Conference Feb 11
Here’s a reminder to everyone that the first cloud computing conference in Canada is coming to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on February 11, 2009. This one day event is called “Cloud Computing an IT Paradigm Shift, and is co-located with CloudCamp.