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My “cloud” tool chain

Recently Mike Amundsen posted a list of the tools he uses for developing cloud applications. He also asked for others to provide their lists. So here goes: Emacs The one true development environment that all others aspire to be like when they grow up. Mike has been using Cloud9 and really seems to like it. [...]

Ideas to ponder

… thinking long-term is a high status thing to do because smart people are better at it. Thus, being a long-term thinker signals that you are smart. However, as we might expect with status competitions this is overdone. – Karl Smith

Developing software as if quality matters

When we started developing CloudSwing we decided to develop CloudSwing as if quality actually matters. By quality i don’t just mean that the code functions as designed. High quality products also meet the needs of the business and customers. In the past there has been a sense of disconnection between the business, QA and development [...]

How i spent my summer

CloudSwing If the idea of deploying your applications on commercially supported open source stacks with built in application monitoring and cost management sounds appealing you should check it out. I learned an immense amount, even though i have been using cloud computing for years. The view from inside is a bit different than it is [...]

“libraries … are guaranteed not to change during runtime” = a language i *don’t* need to learn – http://t.co/FAjiIcFq

That first cup of good coffee after not having any for a week is sooo good.

The “Edit with Emacs” chrome extension rocks. http://t.co/qGiyJv5

Big thumbs up for both NoJa and serda’s. Downtown Mobile has come a long way. .

Involvement in standardization efforts has made me really appreciate the brilliance of the IETF’s “rough consensus and running code” culture

Today @fmorganwhitney declared himself “the Shakespeare of your mom jokes”