Marcel Neuhausler's World

"A Virtual Appliances is a fully pre-installed and pre-configured application and operating system environment that runs on any standard x86 desktop or server in a self-contained, isolated environment known as a virtual machine. Virtual appliances provide an evolutionary step in the software distribution model."

.. a huge list of VMWare images that can be run using the free VMWare player .. a "safer" way to test out stuff on your pc .. would also be a good way to distribute trojan horses? .. but still, check it out! ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:41 AM | Permalink

"Openfount supplies the tools to make it easy to develop and deploy an Ajax application to Amazon S3. The trick is how to process requests from clients.

The Queued Server solves this problem by using S3 as a queue to process requests. When the Ajax client requests a service, instead of contacting the service directly, the request is written to S3. The client then polls S3 for the response. A server is started up anywhere on the internet to process the requests, and to write the responses to S3, which the Ajax client then picks up."

.. another interesting use-case for S3 ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 12:10 AM | Permalink

"Fjax is the lightweight, cross-browser, rapid-development methodology for Ajax-style web 2.0 development that puts a Flash engine under the hood (not in the presentation layer – read on) to handle realtime XML/HTML content updating."

.. an interesting combination of "competing" technologies ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:58 PM | Permalink