Archive for February, 2007

Amazon Web Services (EC2 & S3) - The Future of Data Centre Computing? Part 2

Since my last blog entry on AWS, there has been a number of interesting developments. Firstly, I said before that there were no documented success stories on EC2; well now there are! This is a clear indication that the EC2 community is alive and kicking and that, finally, people are starting to find a purpose for EC2. Maybe the most interesting of these, from a business potential point of view, is gumiyo.com; an ‘end to end mobile commerce platform’, connecting buyers with sellers, either on the mobile, hand-held devices or on the web. Up to this point, most ventures into EC2 consisted of social networking or media sharing applications, so it is nice to see something that has a real dollar value being rolled out on EC2.

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New Date and Time API for Java SE 7?

Good news! JSR 310: Date and Time API has just been announced. When I first read the announcement, I said to myself “Finally! It looks like someone is bold enough to operate on this piece of the class library and they have some sort of support”. Well, we’ve been using Joda-Time for a few years and it is much more intuitive than the standard library. I’m glad that Stephen Colebourne will co-run this JSR, which will be influenced/based on Joda-Time. And I hope that the JSR 310 will make into Java SE 7. Good news it is!

- Yagiz Erkan -

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