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April 26, 2009

Intentional Software - Video of a Presentation

" Intentional Software is pioneering a radical new software approach that separates business domain knowledge from software engineering knowledge. This approach accelerates software creation and maintenance as domain experts themselves contribute domain knowledge in their favorite domain language and notation."

.. interesting video/presentation about DSL in general, but also about their workbench .. especially around ~36min, when they show the Pension Fund Calculation workbench .. I know, still doesn't sound that cool .. and by the way it is part of Microsoft's Oslo project .. but just watch it :-) ..

April 19, 2009

Google App Engine : Java Support

"Google App Engine is unveiling its second language: Java. This release includes an early look at our Java runtime, integration with Google Web Toolkit, and a Google Plugin for Eclipse, giving you an end-to-end Java solution for AJAX web applications"

.. some documentation .. just deployed my first little app .. pretty easy .. and if you stay within some limits it is free (wink wink Amazon) .. perfect ..

April 02, 2009

Amazon Elastic MapReduce

"Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)."

.. cheaper than running it on EC2 ..