Stu says stuffPartially-baked ideas and commentary on technology and society.An Ode to BEA- May 8, 2008 This ode is bittersweet. I've worked for a number of companies over the past 11 years, but I didn't love a company the way I loved BEA. Perhaps it was the Orfali , Harkey & Edwards Blue Book, which convinced me to abandon data management & become a programmer back in 1997 (Jeri Edwards was a VP at BEA at the time), or it was the talk about unifying OLTP with CORBA, or the acquisition of WebLogic, I wanted to work for that company since I got out of college. There was something about..http://www.stucharlton.com/blog/archives/000544.html And a cloud emerges on the horizon!- May 1, 2008 Elastra Cloud Server Technology Preview went live today! Sign up to create clustered MySQL or PgSQL Clusters on Amazon EC2. This is just the tip of what's to come, I hope you enjoy this taste. During this push I've managed to... - Get back into deep Java & Python coding! - Actually be able to ship useful, production code built around RESTful services without getting head-scratching or stares - Slip dates on a whole bunch of external stuff (articles, conference topic abstracts, etc.) -..http://www.stucharlton.com/blog/archives/000543.html Stocking up...- May 1, 2008 ...for nuclear winter.http://www.stucharlton.com/blog/archives/000542.html |