aka Virtual Machine

Pattern Language for design of State-Less WebApp-s (more)

process of testing in Agile Software Development environment (more)

aka Operating System Level Virtualization (more)

Python WebAppFramework/Application Server options (more)

vs State-Less-ness?

PaaS vendor. (more)

Phil Windley summarizes Avi Bryant's tutorial at ETech, focused on SeaSide. Template System-s were a good idea that have become useless and harmful. They're constraining or they're a bad programming language. The is a belief that templates are useful for model/view separation. But HTML is now a semantic layer and CSS is the real view layer (see Zen Garden). This is an interesting point of view and one I have a hard time arguing with. So, you need a rich library for generating HTML (see AWT for inspiration (how about GWT?) ). Each Widget has a render method that gets a canvas passed to it... The next heresy that Avi proposes is that sessions are too valuable to persist. In general, you can never marshall and unmarshall the stuff In-Memory reliably. All the good stuff's in MemCached anyway. Keep the session in the memory of the application server. What about Load Balancing? Use sticky sessions. Application Server-s going down is unusual. Users losing session data is a minor annoyance. Live with it. (more)

A Software Container implementation (more)

aka VM, aka Run-Time? (more)

Place where software (esp WebApp) runs, whether for development, testing, production, etc. (more)

Platform As A Service (more)

Mark Burgess (born 19 February 1966) is a researcher and writer at Oslo University College in Norway, who is well known for work in computer science in the field of policy-based Configuration Management... Mark Burgess is perhaps best known as the author of the popular configuration management software package C F Engine, but has also made important contributions to the theory of the field of automation and policy based management, including the idea of operator convergence and Promise Theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Burgess_(computer_scientist) (more)

Amazon Web Services PaaS wrapper around its services. No extra charge. (more)

Amazon Web Services option getting close to PaaS automation with Chef Configuration Management. (more)

One piece of Marketing for a book (different rules for EBook than Printed Book) (more)

a DVCS (more)

Joel Kotkin on the Ephemeral City (Urban Development). The ephemeral city's relationship to surrounding regions and the wider world is somewhat symbiotic. It feeds off the wealth generated elsewhere while providing a stage where the affluent classes can expend their treasure most fashionably. These cities have developed in part because most industrial, commercial, and service functions are now more economically performed other places... Having lost the economic and demographic initiative to the hinterlands, cities have two alternatives. They can work to become more competitive in terms of jobs, attracting skilled workers and Middle Class families, or they can refocus their efforts on providing playpens for the Idle Rich, the restless young, and tourists. All too often the latter strategy is what many municipalities appear to be adopting. A number of cities now regard Tourism, Culture, and Entertainment as "core" assets... In a globalized economy, certain cities--ParIs, San Francisco, perhaps even Ber Lin and Mont Real--have a chance of making this work... According to Wharton real-estate professor Joseph Gyourko, Philadelphia Pa's much ballyhooed "center city" resurgence represents a more substantial success. But the downtown glitz has not halted the continued decline of many neighborhoods, or the ebbing of jobs and exodus of the middle class to the suburbs. New lofts are built just a short ride from neighborhoods where thousands of abandoned buildings stand ready to collapse... But what about the amenity-rich places, the ones capable of appealing to Part-Time urbanites and sojourning young people? They need to ask an even more basic question about what kind of city they want to become. Art galleries, clubs, bars, and boutiques make these places undeniably fun, but they are not the things that convince the Middle Class, families, and most businesses to commit to a city for the long term. Relying on the culturally curious, these cities could be destined to become hollow places, Dis Ney-lands for adults... History shows that even the most culturally rich cities cannot thrive long when deficient in families, a strong middle class, and Upwardly Mobile working people... A great city is more about clean and workable neighborhoods, thriving business districts, and functioning schools than massive cultural buildings or hipster lofts... The great work of cities is best accomplished in small steps, block by block.

The Upper Class who live off Investment income rather than "working". (more)

someone who does something (sports, arts, etc.) for love/Passion rather than Making A Living (e.g. Professional). (more)