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I am the founder of Cloud Foundry, which provides automated, outsourced data center management for Java applications on Amazon EC2.

I am the founder of Cloud Tools, which is an open-source project for automating the deployment of Java and Grails applications on Amazon EC2.

I run a training and consulting company that helps organizations build better software faster and deploy it on the cloud.

We provide a variety of services including:

  • Development - we can build your application for you
  • Deployment - we can find a hosting partner or deploy your application on Amazon EC2
  • Training classes for Spring, Hibernate and Acegi Security
  • Jumpstarts to get your project off to the right start
  • Reviews to improve your architecture, code and development process

For more information contact me.

 

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Cloud Foundry is now part of SpringSource

Wednesday, 19 August 2009 4:15 A GMT-08
I have some very exciting news to announce today. Cloud Foundry has been acquired by SpringSource and I am now a SpringSource employee.
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Dynamic Languages: the next big thing for the JVM or an evolutionary dead end?

Wednesday, 15 April 2009 7:15 A GMT-08
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

Groovy and Grails meetup and presentations on running Java on Amazon EC2

Monday, 23 February 2009 4:20 P GMT-08
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.

The Cloud Tools Grails plugin - a screencast showing how to deploy a Grails application on Amazon EC2

Monday, 9 February 2009 12:14 P GMT-08
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.

Groovy and Grails talk at the SDForum Java SIG

Monday, 12 January 2009 11:27 A GMT-08
Last tuesday, Bill Grosso and I gave a talk on Groovy and Grails at the SDForum Java SIG.
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Looking for beta testers for a new, hosted version of Cloud Tools.

Wednesday, 12 November 2008 8:12 A GMT-08
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.

Groovy ORM - O/R mapping in dynamic languages

Tuesday, 1 July 2008 6:20 A GMT-08
My article on O/R mapping in dynamic languages has been published by ACM Queue. The article looks at how Grails O/R mapping (GORM) works. The article compares GORM with Hibernate and discusses the benefits and the drawbacks of using GORM.

Grails plugin for deploying to Amazon EC2

Monday, 7 April 2008 6:42 A GMT-08
Cloud Tools now includes a plugin for deploying Grails applications to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Like the Cloud tools Maven plugin, this plugin makes deploying a web application to EC2 extremely easy.
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EC2Deploy and the Cloud Tools Maven plugin are now available - easily run Java web applications on Amazon EC2

Monday, 28 January 2008 6:57 A GMT-08
I am pleased to announce that EC2Deploy - a Groovy-based framework for deploying Java EE applications to Amazon EC2 - is now available as part of the Cloud Tools open source project.
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Running Java EE applications on Amazon EC2: deploying to 20 machines with no money down

Monday, 7 January 2008 10:31 P GMT-08
EC2Deploy is a Groovy-based framework for quickly deploying enterprise Java web applications to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Deploy your application to up to 20 Linux servers and pay by the hour. Great for development and testing.
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Getting Groovy with Thinwire - part 1

Wednesday, 6 June 2007 12:34 P GMT-08
Thinwire, which is an open source Ajax framework, was one of the more interesting technologies that I encountered at JavaOne. It provides a Swing-like API for building a web GUI.
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