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Paul Fallon

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• Session Videos from Google's IO Conference

  Posted: 16 Jun 2009 at 23:58

  Session Videos from Google's IO Conference /Paul For more information, go to .

• Martin Fowler about Ruby's suitability for serious projects

  Posted: 15 Jun 2009 at 23:32

  Ruby at Thoughtworks /Paul For more information, go to .

• Social Networks Around the World

  Posted: 15 Jun 2009 at 00:15

  Via Readwriteweb.com, interesting visualisation and data on Social Networks around the world. /Paul For more information, go to .

• Google Launches A Guide to Enterprise Apps Deployment

  Posted: 13 Jun 2009 at 23:39

  With Google launching a guide to Enterprise Apps Deployment among other announcements (see link and link) in the last few weeks, it certainly looks like Google is getting very serious about its intentions for the Enterprise. /Paul For more information, go to .

• The Quest For Clarity On Cloud Computing Continues – Googles Take…

  Posted: 29 Apr 2009 at 22:30

  In case you missed it, McKinsey released a report entitled “Clearing the air on Cloud Computing” and it is fair to say that its timing is quite apt, as there has been much debate recently in the blogosphere about Cloud Computing, the “buzz”, it value proposition, the economics/financials and most important of all the role virtualisation plays. With Cloud Computing being such a broad - and dare I say it - vague term, the report overall highlights some interesting areas b

• Citrix Joins DMTF Board of Directors

  Posted: 15 Apr 2009 at 00:34

  For me, this is a bit of a QED (see some of my initial thoughts as I counter argue on why SaaS is more than standards, at link); as a rational way and as I see it today. To parse the fluid situation that Cloud Computing (nee SOA, Virtualisation etc..) is going through right now. currently I see this as a means as to how the management of how: The HW/OS platform is a natural evolution in my view, especially when it comes as how HW/OS/IaaS management, monitoring and systems manage

• Google AppEngine to support Java plus behind the firewall integration; what next?

  Posted: 14 Apr 2009 at 21:26

  Since its announcement a year ago, rumours and speculation (for a good review, see link) have been circulating about Google intentions with AppEngine, e.g. see a sample of blogosphere discussion at Techmeme at the time. One of the big take aways I had at the time was besides the fact that it was an early preview (only python based etc…), but also that it was focused on targeting the consumer-focused market and not the business applications market. In the 12 months that ha

• Salesforce’s CloudForce London Content and What is Cloud Computing

  Posted: 14 Apr 2009 at 15:30

  Just saw that Salesforce’s CloudForce London Content is now available at this link, plus this excellent MarComms video – which I think is very well put together. /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com.

• More on: The Open Cloud Manifesto

  Posted: 31 Mar 2009 at 22:27

  Well yesterday was the day that the Open Cloud Manifesto was officially published so I thought I would follow up on my previous post and share a few links that I found insight. - Larry Dignan gives an excellent run down of who is in and who is out Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto without Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft? - Paul Greenberg provides an insightful review and analysis of the current state of play of the Manifesto The Open Cloud

• Parallels bare-metal hypervisor details emerge

  Posted: 27 Mar 2009 at 14:35

  For all of the details, go to virtualization.info. ……. and then their was 6……. Certainly not an early arrival to the game, but their OS Containers are very interesting for certain target scenarios and the more they build out the hypervisor offering the more interesting OS Containers become! Or at least that's how I see it and mileage will vary! /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com.

• The Open Cloud Manifesto

  Posted: 27 Mar 2009 at 08:26

  [document below via link] Hopefully the platform wars are not back (also see Techmeme conversation at link), with the Manifesto below reportedly being backed by IBM, SUN, GOOG amongst others, while MSFT and AMZ are not involved. Cloud Computing can be a daunting enough concept to navigate, without full on Vendor sports taking place like we had with the SOA Hype cycle. There is some really good stuff in there but seeing through the clouds can be challenging

• BBC at SxSW - What's in store for the web?

  Posted: 20 Mar 2009 at 02:49

  > > > > [via link] /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com.

• Nielsen: Twitter's growing really, really, really, really fast

  Posted: 19 Mar 2009 at 15:21

  [via link] From the CNet article: “A small new survey from Nielsen about the five fastest growing "member community destinations" in the U.S. reveals what we all kind of knew already: Twitter is at the top. From February 2008 to February 2009, it clocked in at a whopping 1,382 percent growth rate.” For me (and being in Ireland), the tipping point was when Irish media (Radio and TV) started to talk more about Social Media as part of their normal flow (i.e. not called out sp

• ASP.NET 4.0 Whitepaper

  Posted: 19 Mar 2009 at 14:30

  [via Intel’s blog see link] “You can read the whitepaper online here or download it here.” /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com.

• Session Videos from Mix09

  Posted: 19 Mar 2009 at 14:01

  Since it took me a little head scratching to figure out where the Session recordings are being posted (Doh!!) I thought I would share. Session Videos or alternatively go to this link and look for a like camera icon beside the session title (in the Summary/Abstract view of a session that is below the timetable) There is a certain bit of irony about this, considering that so much of Mix is about UX and Usability ;) But ‘nough about that, a simple blog post on

• The Web turns 20

  Posted: 19 Mar 2009 at 02:33

  [via BTL, see link] I’m a bit late on blogging this, but certainly worth noting! right? /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com.

• WPF/E (/Everywhere) to Silverlight 1.0 to Silverlight 3.0 – and outside of the browser

  Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 18:23

  Like Mary-Jo Foley, I reckon the unsung announcement is that Silverlight 3.0 is going to run outside of the browser is a big one. See Mary-Jo Foley’s post on the Silverlight 3.0 announcement, /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com.

• Sun announce Open Cloud APIs and Cloud Computing platform

  Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 12:59

  [via link] Also Tim Bray gives a personal overview and shares his views on some of the technical details, see link Some other links - http://gigaom.com/2009/03/17/sun-finally-joins-the-cloud/ - http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/03/17/Sun_enters_the_cloud_1.html /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com.

• New capabilities in Windows Azure announced at Mix09

  Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 12:36

  [via link] “New capabilities in Windows Azure include support for full trust to increase the level of flexibility for developers through support of native code, non-.NET language support via FastCGI, and geolocation to provide developers with the capability to host data and code across two U.S.-based datacenters.” /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com.

• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP

  Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 12:33

  fresh bits, get them while they are hot……. /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com.