Archive for July, 2009

Amazon Second Life Job Fair: July 14th 2009

July 12, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
Amazon Second Life Job Fair: July 14th 2009

Be prepared for the first Amazon Job Fair in Second Life. Please be teleported here onĀ  Tuesday July 14th from 6:00AM to 11:59PM, PST (in Belgium it will be between 3:00PM to 9:00AM of July the 15th). As far as I can see Amazon is looking for an awful lot of technical and non-technical candidates....
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This is big: PHP SDK for AZURE (and is a Belgian company who made it)

July 7, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi

I leave the comments to those who are most qualified to bring the news: http://phpazure.codeplex.com/ Bravo to REALDOLMEN.
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Old Man stops yelling at Cloud (maybe)

July 2, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
Old Man stops yelling at Cloud (maybe)

I am referring to this article on The Register. The old man is not Richard Stallman but our holy Larry Ellison (Oracle’s CEO, for those living in a strawberry field), allegedly suspected of hazy practices. We even hear rumors that new stuff should come on EC2. Yay!! If true, it would officialy legitimate the Cloud, even...
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Canonical launches Enterprise Cloud Services (Ubuntu of course)

July 1, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
Canonical launches Enterprise Cloud Services (Ubuntu of course)

It seems that Canonical is betting seriously on the in-house Cloud if they managed to launch this. But what about prices? If you read this article by Timothy Prickett Morgan of The Register it seems that Cloud Support costs averagely more than regular Ubuntu Server support. I have to check this on my own but,...
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How an article on healthcare’s future should teach us to work

July 1, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
How an article on healthcare’s future should teach us to work

I read an article by Chuck Salter of May 2009 on FastCompany.com aboutĀ  Hello Health, Myca and many other “de-localization” techniques which seem to be promising in terms of efficiency although they would not solve any of the inner problems of dysfunctional health care. It’s a recognized fact that technology can be an enabler to...
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