All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 22, 2008

These are times where many companies are focusing on the basics of their IT operations and are asking themselves how they can operate more efficiently to make sure that every dollar is spent wisely. This is not the first time that we have gone through this cycle, but this time there are tools available to CIOs and CTOs that help them to manage their IT budgets very differently.

Efficiency 78

Efficiency Systems Cloud Availability 78

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Historically, it hasn’t been very often that I’ve been able to tip my hat to Microsoft for open web innovation. Today though is one of those times that I get to do so. John Allsopp, one of Microformats’s biggest supporters, mentioned today that Microsoft’s designer/developer community, Mix Online , has developed a IE toolbar called Oomph.

Innovation 40

Innovation Design Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 13, 2008

There’s a lot riding on IT in the current economic climate. In tight times, businesses rely on efficiency, and IT investments will be expected to create a lot of that efficiency. But while IT assets may help the business tighten up, IT execution must also tighten up to match the times. That doesn’t mean IT projects have to execute flawlessly. They never will, as there will always be situations and events that challenge even the most experienced of teams.

Metrics 40

Metrics Efficiency Government 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Congratulations to the Amazon EC2 team for the hard work to get to the point where the beta tag is removed from the service and it is now in full production. Not only that, but there now is an SLA, and Microsoft Windows and SQL Server are available as of today.

Servers 60

Servers Availability 60

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 19, 2008

One of the areas that web design is lacking in, is a way to reliably provide beautiful fonts for our designs. There’s a very limited amount of fonts that are actually safe to use on the web, because not everyone is a designer with lots of nice fonts installed on their machine. Sure, with font stacking we can help ease the pain a bit, but it’s still a small amount of people that will see the fonts we intend, with everyone else getting boring alternates.

Design 40

Design Scalability Code Performance 40

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Who Wrote It? Mobile Web Development is written by Nirav Mehta, the head of Magnet Technologies a software development firm in India. He blogs about a variety of business and tech topics at www.mehtanirav.com. What’s Covered? Mobile Web Development covers a wide variety of topics related to…guess what… mobile web development. Nirav does a fantastic job of introducing a wide variety of technologies needed to begin mobile web development including sending and receiving SMS and

Mobile 40

Mobile Development AWS Technology 40