<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from chris-richardson.blog-city.com</title><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2010 chris-richardson.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:12:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from chris-richardson.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Oakland Java SIG - Mik Kersten: The Eclipse Mylyn Open Source Project</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/oakland_java_sig__mik_kersten_the_eclipse_mylyn_open_sourc.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/oakland_java_sig__mik_kersten_the_eclipse_mylyn_open_sourc.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=oakland%5Fjava%5Fsig%5F%5Fmik%5Fkersten%5Fthe%5Feclipse%5Fmylyn%5Fopen%5Fsourc</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At tomorrow/wednesday's (2/17/2010) meeting of the Oakland Java SIG Mik Kersten will be talking about the Eclipse Mylyn Open Source Project.]]></description><category>oakland</category><category>java</category><category>sig</category><category>jug</category><category>mylyn</category><category>eclipse</category><category>tasktop</category></item><item><title>Cloud Foundry is now part of SpringSource</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/cloud_foundry_is_now_part_of_springsource.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/cloud_foundry_is_now_part_of_springsource.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cloud%5Ffoundry%5Fis%5Fnow%5Fpart%5Fof%5Fspringsource</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have some very exciting news to announce today. Cloud Foundry has been acquired by SpringSource and  I am now a SpringSource employee.]]></description><category>cloud</category><category>foundry</category><category>springsource</category><category>amazon</category><category>ec2</category><category>computing</category><category>hyperic</category><category>pojos</category><category>java</category><category>enterprise</category><category>tomcat</category><category>groovy</category><category>grails</category><category>open</category><category>source</category></item><item><title>Dynamic Languages: the next big thing for the JVM or an evolutionary dead end?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/dynamic_languages_the_next_big_thing_for_the_jvm_or_an_evol.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/dynamic_languages_the_next_big_thing_for_the_jvm_or_an_evol.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=dynamic%5Flanguages%5Fthe%5Fnext%5Fbig%5Fthing%5Ffor%5Fthe%5Fjvm%5For%5Fan%5Fevol</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last month I gave a couple of talks at Community One East in NY. One was about running Java applications on Amazon EC2. The other was about dynamically languages vs. static languages and why I am very interested in Scala. Here are the slides for that]]></description><category>communityone</category><category>amazon</category><category>ec2</category><category>scala</category><category>groovy</category><category>dynamic</category><category>languages</category><category>typing</category><category>programming</category><category>static</category></item><item><title>Upcoming events: Oakland Java SIG and SDForum&apos;s Shaping the New Age of Application Development</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_events_oakland_java_sig_and_sdforums_shaping_the_.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_events_oakland_java_sig_and_sdforums_shaping_the_.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=upcoming%5Fevents%5Foakland%5Fjava%5Fsig%5Fand%5Fsdforums%5Fshaping%5Fthe%5F</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Next week, there are a couple of interesting events: the Oakland Java SIG's April meeting on integration with Mule and  SD Forum's Shaping the New Age of Application Development conference.]]></description><category>oakland</category><category>java</category><category>sig</category><category>jug</category><category>mule</category><category>integration</category><category>sdforum</category><category>conference</category><category>cloud</category></item><item><title>Progressive Web Tutorials, May 11-13th, London - Running Java and Grails on Amazon EC2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/progressive_web_tutorials_may_1113th_london__running_jav.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/progressive_web_tutorials_may_1113th_london__running_jav.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=progressive%5Fweb%5Ftutorials%5Fmay%5F1113th%5Flondon%5F%5Frunning%5Fjav</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In May, I&#39;ll be giving a 1/2 day tutorial on running Java and Grails applications on Amazon&#39;s Elastic Compute Cloud. This will be part of Skills Matter&#39;s Progressive Web Tutorials.]]></description><category>amazon</category><category>ec2</category><category>skills</category><category>matter</category><category>london</category><category>java</category><category>grails</category></item><item><title>Groovy and Grails meetup and presentations on running Java on Amazon EC2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/groovy_and_grails_meetup_and_presentations_and_demos_on_runn.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/groovy_and_grails_meetup_and_presentations_and_demos_on_runn.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=groovy%5Fand%5Fgrails%5Fmeetup%5Fand%5Fpresentations%5Fand%5Fdemos%5Fon%5Frunn</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is week 2 of a busy few weeks of events and presentations. Last week, I gave my first 1/2 day class on running Java applications on Amazon EC2. It went extremely well with a great turnout. Tonight in Oakland is the Groovy/Grails meetup.]]></description><category>groovy</category><category>grails</category><category>java</category><category>amazon</category><category>ec2</category><category>elastic</category><category>compute</category><category>cloud</category><category>foundry</category><category>tools</category><category>sdforum</category><category>scala</category></item><item><title>Decomposing Selenium Web Tests to Hide Complexity</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/decomposing_selenium_web_tests_for_easier_maintenance.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/decomposing_selenium_web_tests_for_easier_maintenance.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=decomposing%5Fselenium%5Fweb%5Ftests%5Ffor%5Feasier%5Fmaintenance</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Decomposition is an interesting topic. In the real world, decomposition usually leads to bad smells and other unpleasantness. But in the software world, it is the absence of decomposition that leads to code smells.]]></description><category>web</category><category>tests</category><category>decomposition</category><category>maintainability</category><category>testability</category><category>testing</category><category>selenium</category><category>java</category><category>quality</category></item><item><title>The Cloud Tools Grails plugin - a screencast showing how to deploy a Grails application on Amazon EC2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/cloud_tools_grails_plugin__a_movie_showing_how_to_deploy_a_.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/cloud_tools_grails_plugin__a_movie_showing_how_to_deploy_a_.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cloud%5Ftools%5Fgrails%5Fplugin%5F%5Fa%5Fmovie%5Fshowing%5Fhow%5Fto%5Fdeploy%5Fa%5F</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cloud Tools  has both Maven and Grails plugins. Thanks to Dustin Whitney  the Grails plugin has all of the features of the Maven plugin. Here is a screencast showing how to deploy a Grails application on Amazon EC2.]]></description><category>elastic</category><category>java</category><category>opensource</category><category>tools</category><category>compute</category><category>grails</category><category>groovy</category><category>ec2</category><category>amazon</category><category>cloud</category><category>plugin</category></item><item><title>Amazon EC2 key pairs and other stumbling blocks</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/amazon_ec2_keypairs_and_other_stumbling_blocks_1.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/amazon_ec2_keypairs_and_other_stumbling_blocks_1.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=amazon%5Fec2%5Fkeypairs%5Fand%5Fother%5Fstumbling%5Fblocks%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[EC2 key pairs and security group configuration are common stumbling blocks for people who are new to Amazon EC2. The good news is that these are relatively minor hurdles to overcome.]]></description><category>grails</category><category>pair</category><category>cloud</category><category>authentication</category><category>elastic</category><category>key</category><category>foundry</category><category>java</category><category>computing</category><category>compute</category><category>ec2</category><category>security</category><category>amazon</category><category>aws</category></item><item><title>Upcoming talks on POJOs, Spring, Hibernate and Amazon EC2 in the Bay Area, New York and Philadelphia</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_talks_on_pojos_spring_hibernate_and_amazon_ec2_in.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_talks_on_pojos_spring_hibernate_and_amazon_ec2_in.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=upcoming%5Ftalks%5Fon%5Fpojos%5Fspring%5Fhibernate%5Fand%5Famazon%5Fec2%5Fin</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[March is going to be a busy month. I'm giving talks on POJOs, Spring, Hibernate and Amazon EC2 in Santa Clara, New York and Philadelphia. And in February, I am holding a half-day class in Oakland on running Java and Grails applications on Amazon EC2.]]></description><category>spring</category><category>hibernate</category><category>pojos</category><category>amazon</category><category>ec2</category><category>cloud</category><category>computing</category><category>grails</category><category>conferences</category><category>classes</category></item><item><title>Upcoming class: Running Java and Grails Applications on Amazon EC2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_class_running_java_and_grails_applications_on_amaz.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_class_running_java_and_grails_applications_on_amaz.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=upcoming%5Fclass%5Frunning%5Fjava%5Fand%5Fgrails%5Fapplications%5Fon%5Famaz</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By deploying Java and Grails applications on Amazon EC2, organizations can reduce the risk of a success catastrophe, eliminate the capital expense of building a datacenter and reduce their operating expenses. Attend my class and find out how.]]></description><category>cloud</category><category>computing</category><category>deployment</category><category>java</category><category>amazon</category><category>ec2</category><category>grails</category><category>high</category><category>availability</category><category>security</category><category>elastic</category><category>compute</category></item><item><title>Amazon EC2 and Cloud Tools save the day</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/amazon_ec2_and_cloud_tools_save_the_day.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/amazon_ec2_and_cloud_tools_save_the_day.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=amazon%5Fec2%5Fand%5Fcloud%5Ftools%5Fsave%5Fthe%5Fday</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of the great things about compute clouds such as Amazon EC2 is their elasticity. And, with Cloud Tools, you can easily deploy and manage your Java/Grails applications on EC2. This can enable you to avoid a success catastrophe.]]></description><category>hosting</category><category>grails</category><category>cloud</category><category>maven</category><category>java</category><category>foundry</category><category>computing</category><category>tools</category><category>catastrophe</category><category>ec2</category><category>success</category><category>amazon</category><category>plugin</category></item><item><title>Groovy and Grails talk at the SDForum Java SIG</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/groovy_and_grails_talk_at_the_sdforum_java_sig.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/groovy_and_grails_talk_at_the_sdforum_java_sig.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=groovy%5Fand%5Fgrails%5Ftalk%5Fat%5Fthe%5Fsdforum%5Fjava%5Fsig</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last tuesday, Bill Grosso  and I gave a talk on Groovy and Grails at the SDForum Java SIG.]]></description><category>relational</category><category>grails</category><category>groovy</category><category>hibernate</category><category>java</category><category>object</category><category>sig</category><category>orm</category><category>tools</category><category>mapping</category><category>gorm</category><category>sdforum</category></item><item><title>Just say no to war and weapons</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/just_say_no_to_war_and_weapons.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/just_say_no_to_war_and_weapons.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=just%5Fsay%5Fno%5Fto%5Fwar%5Fand%5Fweapons</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No. I haven't become a pacifist. Instead, I'm talking about SpringSource's newish tagline: "Weapons for the war on Java complexity". I have barely recovered from the Spring framework's recent encounter with commercialism.]]></description><category>springsource</category><category>war</category><category>weapon</category><category>metaphor</category><category>framework</category><category>spring</category><category>java</category><category>marketing</category></item><item><title>My Happy Hour Presentation at the Cloud Computing Expo in San Jose</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/presenting_at_the_cloud_computing_expo_in_san_jose.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/presenting_at_the_cloud_computing_expo_in_san_jose.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=presenting%5Fat%5Fthe%5Fcloud%5Fcomputing%5Fexpo%5Fin%5Fsan%5Fjose</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This friday, I'll be giving a presentation on running Java applications on Amazon EC2  at the Cloud Computing Expo, which takes place at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. I'll be speaking in a happy hour time slot: Friday, 6.15-7pm!]]></description><category>elastic</category><category>java</category><category>expo</category><category>computing</category><category>compute</category><category>ec2</category><category>amazon</category><category>cloud</category></item><item><title>Looking for beta testers for a new, hosted version of Cloud Tools.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/looking_for_beta_testers_for_a_new_hosted_version_of_cloud_.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/looking_for_beta_testers_for_a_new_hosted_version_of_cloud_.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=looking%5Ffor%5Fbeta%5Ftesters%5Ffor%5Fa%5Fnew%5Fhosted%5Fversion%5Fof%5Fcloud%5F</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We have been developing a new, hosted version of Cloud Tools. It is a service that simplifies the deployment and management of Java applications on Amazon EC2. If you are interested in being a beta tester please contact us.]]></description><category>amazon</category><category>ec2</category><category>elastic</category><category>compute</category><category>cloud</category><category>tools</category><category>java</category><category>hosting</category><category>groovy</category><category>grails</category></item><item><title>Computing in the mountains - the Colorado Software Summit: MINA, Esper, Camel, EC2 and the iPhone</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/computing_by_the_bay_in_the_clouds_and_in_the_mountains_pa.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/computing_by_the_bay_in_the_clouds_and_in_the_mountains_pa.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=computing%5Fby%5Fthe%5Fbay%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fclouds%5Fand%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fmountains%5Fpa</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After my trip to CloudCon East in Philadelphia, I headed out to Keystone, Colorado to spend the week at the Colorado Software Summit. 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The speaker is Owen O'Malley. He is a Software Architect at Yahoo and a Hadoop committer.]]></description><category>java</category><category>sig</category><category>oakland</category><category>jug</category><category>hadoop</category><category>map</category><category>reduce</category></item><item><title>New and improved SpringSource maintenance policy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/new_and_improved_springsource_maintenance_policy.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/new_and_improved_springsource_maintenance_policy.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Fand%5Fimproved%5Fspringsource%5Fmaintenance%5Fpolicy</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was pleased to read that SpringSource have revised their maintenance policy. They are going to continue to regularly make binary releases from the trunk.]]></description><category>spring</category><category>springsource</category><category>maintenance</category><category>framework</category><category>policy</category><category>revised</category><category>open</category><category>source</category><category>opensource</category><category>java</category></item><item><title>A great definition of Cloud Computing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/a_great_definition_of_cloud_computing.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/a_great_definition_of_cloud_computing.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fgreat%5Fdefinition%5Fof%5Fcloud%5Fcomputing</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At Cloud Computing events and on mailing lists there seem to be endless, tedious discussions about what Cloud Computing is and isn't. But last week at the SDForum Cloud Computing Conference, James Staten provided a great definition.]]></description><category>cloud</category><category>computing</category><category>definition</category><category>amazon</category><category>ec2</category><category>sdforum</category><category>forrester</category><category>research</category><category>james</category><category>staten</category></item><item><title>Upcoming conferences:  Fall Forecast 2008 and the Colorado Software Summit</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_conferences__fall_forecast_2008_and_the_colorado_s.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_conferences__fall_forecast_2008_and_the_colorado_s.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=upcoming%5Fconferences%5F%5Ffall%5Fforecast%5F2008%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fcolorado%5Fs</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Later this month I will be at a couple of conferences. Next week, I&#39;ll be at the one day Cloud Computing Conference, just outside of Philadelphia. At this conference, I&#39;ll be giving a talk about Java and Amazon EC2 (Cloud Tools).&nbsp; The fo]]></description><category>cloud</category><category>computing</category><category>conference</category><category>ec2</category><category>amazon</category><category>colorado</category><category>software</category><category>summit</category><category>philadelphia</category><category>keystore</category></item><item><title>SD Forum conference: Cloud Computing and Beyond: The Web Grows up (finally)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_cloud_computing_events_sd_forum_cloud_camp_and_fa.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_cloud_computing_events_sd_forum_cloud_camp_and_fa.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=upcoming%5Fcloud%5Fcomputing%5Fevents%5Fsd%5Fforum%5Fcloud%5Fcamp%5Fand%5Ffa</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Wednesday October 1st is SD Forum's conference on Cloud Computing. I will be participating in a panel on Users' Views of Utility Computing and Application Scenarios talking about my experiences using Amazon EC2 for Java development and deployment.]]></description><category>computing</category><category>tools</category><category>sdforum</category><category>ec2</category><category>cloud</category><category>amazon</category></item><item><title>Re: What the new $pringSource maintenance policy means to you</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/re_what_the_new_pringsource_maintenance_policy_means_to_yo.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/re_what_the_new_pringsource_maintenance_policy_means_to_yo.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=re%5Fwhat%5Fthe%5Fnew%5Fpringsource%5Fmaintenance%5Fpolicy%5Fmeans%5Fto%5Fyo</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I really have to respond to Craig Wall's  assertion that not much has changed. In my opinion, however much you try to spin it, a lot has changed]]></description><category>springsource</category><category>spring</category><category>framework</category><category>pojos</category><category>open</category><category>source</category><category>maintenance</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>Cloud Tools now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/cloud_tools_now_supports_amazon_elastic_block_store.htm</guid><link>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/cloud_tools_now_supports_amazon_elastic_block_store.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cloud%5Ftools%5Fnow%5Fsupports%5Famazon%5Felastic%5Fblock%5Fstore</comments><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of the exciting new features of Amazon EC2 is Elastic Block Store (EBS), which provides truly durable storage for your instances. Cloud tools now supports Amazon EBS. You can now launch an application with MySQL configured to use an EBS volume.]]></description><category>elastic</category><category>java</category><category>tools</category><category>compute</category><category>grails</category><category>mysql</category><category>storage</category><category>ec2</category><category>cloud</category><category>ebs</category><category>block</category><category>maven</category></item></channel></rss>