<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from chris-richardson.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 chris-richardson.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-09-25T17:50:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009-08-19:links.412179765</id><title>Cloud Foundry is now part of SpringSource</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/cloud_foundry_is_now_part_of_springsource.htm"><![CDATA[I have some very exciting news to announce today. Cloud Foundry has been acquired by SpringSource and  I am now a SpringSource employee.]]></content><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>foundry</dc:subject><dc:subject>springsource</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>computing</dc:subject><dc:subject>hyperic</dc:subject><dc:subject>pojos</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>enterprise</dc:subject><dc:subject>tomcat</dc:subject><dc:subject>groovy</dc:subject><dc:subject>grails</dc:subject><dc:subject>open</dc:subject><dc:subject>source</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/cloud_foundry_is_now_part_of_springsource.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2009-08-19T12:15:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-19T12:15:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009-04-15:links.412164384</id><title>Dynamic Languages: the next big thing for the JVM or an evolutionary dead end?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/dynamic_languages_the_next_big_thing_for_the_jvm_or_an_evol.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>communityone</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>scala</dc:subject><dc:subject>groovy</dc:subject><dc:subject>dynamic</dc:subject><dc:subject>languages</dc:subject><dc:subject>typing</dc:subject><dc:subject>programming</dc:subject><dc:subject>static</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/dynamic_languages_the_next_big_thing_for_the_jvm_or_an_evol.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2009-04-15T15:15:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-15T15:15:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009-04-10:links.412163330</id><title>Upcoming events: Oakland Java SIG and SDForum&apos;s Shaping the New Age of Application Development</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_events_oakland_java_sig_and_sdforums_shaping_the_.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>oakland</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>sig</dc:subject><dc:subject>jug</dc:subject><dc:subject>mule</dc:subject><dc:subject>integration</dc:subject><dc:subject>sdforum</dc:subject><dc:subject>conference</dc:subject><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_events_oakland_java_sig_and_sdforums_shaping_the_.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2009-04-10T16:29:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-10T16:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009-04-08:links.412162882</id><title>Progressive Web Tutorials, May 11-13th, London - Running Java and Grails on Amazon EC2</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/progressive_web_tutorials_may_1113th_london__running_jav.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>skills</dc:subject><dc:subject>matter</dc:subject><dc:subject>london</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>grails</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/progressive_web_tutorials_may_1113th_london__running_jav.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2009-04-08T16:29:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-08T16:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009-02-24:links.412155478</id><title>Groovy and Grails meetup and presentations on running Java on Amazon EC2</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/groovy_and_grails_meetup_and_presentations_and_demos_on_runn.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>groovy</dc:subject><dc:subject>grails</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>elastic</dc:subject><dc:subject>compute</dc:subject><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>foundry</dc:subject><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>sdforum</dc:subject><dc:subject>scala</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/groovy_and_grails_meetup_and_presentations_and_demos_on_runn.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2009-02-24T00:20:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-24T00:20:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009-02-11:links.412152189</id><title>Decomposing Selenium Web Tests to Hide Complexity</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/decomposing_selenium_web_tests_for_easier_maintenance.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>web</dc:subject><dc:subject>tests</dc:subject><dc:subject>decomposition</dc:subject><dc:subject>maintainability</dc:subject><dc:subject>testability</dc:subject><dc:subject>testing</dc:subject><dc:subject>selenium</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>quality</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/decomposing_selenium_web_tests_for_easier_maintenance.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2009-02-11T17:57:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-11T17:57:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009-02-09:links.412153084</id><title>The Cloud Tools Grails plugin - a screencast showing how to deploy a Grails application on Amazon EC2</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/cloud_tools_grails_plugin__a_movie_showing_how_to_deploy_a_.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>elastic</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>opensource</dc:subject><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>compute</dc:subject><dc:subject>grails</dc:subject><dc:subject>groovy</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>plugin</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/cloud_tools_grails_plugin__a_movie_showing_how_to_deploy_a_.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2009-02-09T20:14:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-09T20:14:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009-02-02:links.412151311</id><title>Amazon EC2 key pairs and other stumbling blocks</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/amazon_ec2_keypairs_and_other_stumbling_blocks_1.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>grails</dc:subject><dc:subject>pair</dc:subject><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>authentication</dc:subject><dc:subject>elastic</dc:subject><dc:subject>key</dc:subject><dc:subject>foundry</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>computing</dc:subject><dc:subject>compute</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>security</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>aws</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/amazon_ec2_keypairs_and_other_stumbling_blocks_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2009-02-02T16:58:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-02T16:58:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009-01-28:links.412150635</id><title>Upcoming talks on POJOs, Spring, Hibernate and Amazon EC2 in the Bay Area, New York and Philadelphia</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_talks_on_pojos_spring_hibernate_and_amazon_ec2_in.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>spring</dc:subject><dc:subject>hibernate</dc:subject><dc:subject>pojos</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>computing</dc:subject><dc:subject>grails</dc:subject><dc:subject>conferences</dc:subject><dc:subject>classes</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_talks_on_pojos_spring_hibernate_and_amazon_ec2_in.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2009-01-28T18:31:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-28T18:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009-01-19:links.412148777</id><title>Upcoming class: Running Java and Grails Applications on Amazon EC2</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_class_running_java_and_grails_applications_on_amaz.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>computing</dc:subject><dc:subject>deployment</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>grails</dc:subject><dc:subject>high</dc:subject><dc:subject>availability</dc:subject><dc:subject>security</dc:subject><dc:subject>elastic</dc:subject><dc:subject>compute</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_class_running_java_and_grails_applications_on_amaz.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2009-01-19T15:55:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-19T15:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009-01-14:links.412147706</id><title>Amazon EC2 and Cloud Tools save the day</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/amazon_ec2_and_cloud_tools_save_the_day.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>hosting</dc:subject><dc:subject>grails</dc:subject><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>maven</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>foundry</dc:subject><dc:subject>computing</dc:subject><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>catastrophe</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>success</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>plugin</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/amazon_ec2_and_cloud_tools_save_the_day.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2009-01-14T16:22:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-14T16:22:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2009-01-12:links.412147704</id><title>Groovy and Grails talk at the SDForum Java SIG</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/groovy_and_grails_talk_at_the_sdforum_java_sig.htm"><![CDATA[Last tuesday, Bill Grosso  and I gave a talk on Groovy and Grails at the SDForum Java SIG.]]></content><dc:subject>relational</dc:subject><dc:subject>grails</dc:subject><dc:subject>groovy</dc:subject><dc:subject>hibernate</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>object</dc:subject><dc:subject>sig</dc:subject><dc:subject>orm</dc:subject><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>mapping</dc:subject><dc:subject>gorm</dc:subject><dc:subject>sdforum</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/groovy_and_grails_talk_at_the_sdforum_java_sig.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2009-01-12T19:27:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-12T19:27:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-12-02:links.412141745</id><title>Just say no to war and weapons</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/just_say_no_to_war_and_weapons.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>springsource</dc:subject><dc:subject>war</dc:subject><dc:subject>weapon</dc:subject><dc:subject>metaphor</dc:subject><dc:subject>framework</dc:subject><dc:subject>spring</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>marketing</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/just_say_no_to_war_and_weapons.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-12-02T18:27:00Z</updated><published>2008-12-02T18:27:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-11-19:links.412139897</id><title>My Happy Hour Presentation at the Cloud Computing Expo in San Jose</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/presenting_at_the_cloud_computing_expo_in_san_jose.htm"><![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!]]></content><dc:subject>elastic</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>expo</dc:subject><dc:subject>computing</dc:subject><dc:subject>compute</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/presenting_at_the_cloud_computing_expo_in_san_jose.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-11-19T19:34:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-19T19:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-11-12:links.412138699</id><title>Looking for beta testers for a new, hosted version of Cloud Tools.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/looking_for_beta_testers_for_a_new_hosted_version_of_cloud_.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>elastic</dc:subject><dc:subject>compute</dc:subject><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>hosting</dc:subject><dc:subject>groovy</dc:subject><dc:subject>grails</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/looking_for_beta_testers_for_a_new_hosted_version_of_cloud_.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-11-12T16:12:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-12T16:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-11-10:links.412138101</id><title>Computing in the mountains - the Colorado Software Summit: MINA, Esper, Camel, EC2 and the iPhone</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/computing_by_the_bay_in_the_clouds_and_in_the_mountains_pa.htm"><![CDATA[After my trip to CloudCon East in Philadelphia, I headed out to Keystone, Colorado to spend the week at the Colorado Software Summit. This is a great conference - good technical content, great opportunities to network and an excellent location.]]></content><dc:subject>colorado</dc:subject><dc:subject>software</dc:subject><dc:subject>summit</dc:subject><dc:subject>mina</dc:subject><dc:subject>esper</dc:subject><dc:subject>camel</dc:subject><dc:subject>clouds</dc:subject><dc:subject>iphone</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>objectivec</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/computing_by_the_bay_in_the_clouds_and_in_the_mountains_pa.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-11-10T16:53:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-10T16:53:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-11-05:links.412137322</id><title>Computing by the bay, in the clouds and in the mountains - part 1</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/computing_by_the_bay_in_the_clouds_and_in_the_mountains.htm"><![CDATA[Since the middle of October, I've been to a number of interesting events: a really interesting presentation on Hadoop; a one day cloud computing conference in Philadelphia; and the Colorado Software Summit.]]></content><dc:subject>hivedb</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>haskell</dc:subject><dc:subject>computing</dc:subject><dc:subject>reduce</dc:subject><dc:subject>map</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>hadoop</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/computing_by_the_bay_in_the_clouds_and_in_the_mountains.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-11-05T17:38:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-05T17:38:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-10-13:links.412133326</id><title>Learn about Hadoop at the Oakland Java SIG</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/learn_about_hadoop_at_the_oakland_java_sig.htm"><![CDATA[This Wednesday (October 15th) at the Oakland Java SIG there will be a presentation on Hadoop, which is an open-source implementation of Map/Reduce. The speaker is Owen O'Malley. He is a Software Architect at Yahoo and a Hadoop committer.]]></content><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>sig</dc:subject><dc:subject>oakland</dc:subject><dc:subject>jug</dc:subject><dc:subject>hadoop</dc:subject><dc:subject>map</dc:subject><dc:subject>reduce</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/learn_about_hadoop_at_the_oakland_java_sig.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-10-13T17:29:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-13T17:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-10-08:links.412132337</id><title>New and improved SpringSource maintenance policy</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/new_and_improved_springsource_maintenance_policy.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>spring</dc:subject><dc:subject>springsource</dc:subject><dc:subject>maintenance</dc:subject><dc:subject>framework</dc:subject><dc:subject>policy</dc:subject><dc:subject>revised</dc:subject><dc:subject>open</dc:subject><dc:subject>source</dc:subject><dc:subject>opensource</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/new_and_improved_springsource_maintenance_policy.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-10-08T08:00:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-08T08:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-10-06:links.412132054</id><title>A great definition of Cloud Computing</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/a_great_definition_of_cloud_computing.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>computing</dc:subject><dc:subject>definition</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>sdforum</dc:subject><dc:subject>forrester</dc:subject><dc:subject>research</dc:subject><dc:subject>james</dc:subject><dc:subject>staten</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/a_great_definition_of_cloud_computing.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-10-06T16:57:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-06T16:57:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-10-06:links.412132053</id><title>Upcoming conferences:  Fall Forecast 2008 and the Colorado Software Summit</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_conferences__fall_forecast_2008_and_the_colorado_s.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>computing</dc:subject><dc:subject>conference</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>colorado</dc:subject><dc:subject>software</dc:subject><dc:subject>summit</dc:subject><dc:subject>philadelphia</dc:subject><dc:subject>keystore</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_conferences__fall_forecast_2008_and_the_colorado_s.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-10-06T16:38:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-06T16:38:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-09-27:links.412130585</id><title>SD Forum conference: Cloud Computing and Beyond: The Web Grows up (finally)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_cloud_computing_events_sd_forum_cloud_camp_and_fa.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>computing</dc:subject><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>sdforum</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/upcoming_cloud_computing_events_sd_forum_cloud_camp_and_fa.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-09-27T17:11:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-27T17:11:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-09-23:links.412129823</id><title>Re: What the new $pringSource maintenance policy means to you</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/re_what_the_new_pringsource_maintenance_policy_means_to_yo.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>springsource</dc:subject><dc:subject>spring</dc:subject><dc:subject>framework</dc:subject><dc:subject>pojos</dc:subject><dc:subject>open</dc:subject><dc:subject>source</dc:subject><dc:subject>maintenance</dc:subject><dc:subject>policy</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/re_what_the_new_pringsource_maintenance_policy_means_to_yo.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-09-23T19:09:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-23T19:09:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-09-15:links.412128250</id><title>Cloud Tools now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/cloud_tools_now_supports_amazon_elastic_block_store.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>elastic</dc:subject><dc:subject>java</dc:subject><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>compute</dc:subject><dc:subject>grails</dc:subject><dc:subject>mysql</dc:subject><dc:subject>storage</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>ebs</dc:subject><dc:subject>block</dc:subject><dc:subject>maven</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/cloud_tools_now_supports_amazon_elastic_block_store.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-09-15T14:56:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-15T14:56:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chris-richardson.blog-city.com,2008-07-07:links.412114515</id><title>New version of the Cloud Tools Grails Plugin</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/new_version_of_the_cloud_tools_grails_plugin.htm"><![CDATA[A new version (0.2) of the Cloud Tools Grails plugin that contains various bug fixes and enhancements is available from code.google.com/p/cloudtools/. The Grails plugin makes it easy to deploy a Grails application to Amazon EC2.]]></content><dc:subject>cloud</dc:subject><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>ec2</dc:subject><dc:subject>amazon</dc:subject><dc:subject>grails</dc:subject><dc:subject>plugin</dc:subject><dc:subject>deploy</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/new_version_of_the_cloud_tools_grails_plugin.htm"/><dc:creator>Chris Richardson</dc:creator><author><name>Chris Richardson</name></author><updated>2008-07-07T15:46:00Z</updated><published>2008-07-07T15:46:00Z</published></entry></feed>