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Back from a long summer holiday and lots to do. Having just put singup.org live we seem to have an endless stack of new work as well. (Ok, I didn’t put singup.org live – I was on Holiday.)

On top of planning a new series of articles for Linux Magazine on High performance and cloud computing, I’ll be busy bringing by previous GWT article up to date with the latest version.

Waiting excitedly for Google Wave on Sept 30th.

Linux Journal

For most programmers, deployment is an area that could do with a touch of laziness. Deploying to a cluster – or even one machine – can be repetitive and tiring.

Enter Capistrano, a Ruby deployment tool that makes the task of deploying an application to servers easier but running defined tasks for you on the remote servers.

Linux Magazine

I have lost many days, weeks, possibly even months to JavaScript. The rise of JavaScript frameworks (prototype, mootools etc) over the past couple of years, and their increasing stability has helped. GWT looks like the next evolution in JavaScript development – instead of writing in JavaScript, write in Java.

Linux Pro Magazine, June 2009

“Running sites on EC2 is easy, but really making use of the scalability and flexibility of cloud computing requires a new approach.

Linux Format, August 2008

Article on Amazon’s EC2 – “Elastic compute cloud”.

11am. You get an email from the head of Marketing. “Hi there – we’ve just agreed to send out our lunchtime bulletin to our partner’s 2,000,000 customers. I said that this would be fine and they can all expect it in an hour or so. Let me know when it’s done. Thanks.”

Cloud Computing promises to bring bug computer fun to the masses. In the article, published today I show how easily you can get started with EC2.

Dot Net Magazine, August 2007

Linux Format, July 2007

Linux Magazine, June 2007 

Overview of the various Web 2.0 frameworks that are available – e.g. scriptaculous, mootools..