The Tesla Testament
Amazon best-seller December 2007!

Non-stop action. A vulnerable hero. A quest to save the world. The Tesla Testament is the most exciting novel of the decade.

paster.vim - A Pastebin Plugin For Vim

paster.vim -- BSD license

paster.vim snapshot Paste text from the current document onto a public pastebin or board. This implementation is written in vim to reduce external depencencies to Python or Perl. The only external dependency is cURL (e.g. /usr/bin/curl in UNIX-like systems) as an HTTP posting tool. This posting tool, and all its command line parameters are configurable by the user.

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Best of Breed Software Presentation at OSBC 2009

Open source software is not the answer to every question. Neither is proprietary software. Most mission-critical deployments can benefit from leveraging both but… how do you identify when to use one or the other? This session describes the blueprint that the author used at a few large public companies for building their mission-critical systems. It’ll cover the selection process, the open-source communities, participation in the project, and how to get support from the same open-source team that built the project in the first place. Learn how to spend about of the 30% total (including support and consulting!) of what you’d otherwise spend in a commercially driven software deployment.


Mission-Critical Cloud/Enterprise Hybrid Deployments

Almost every vendor talks about cloud computing, and "cloud" is becoming the buzzword du jour. Eugene talks about how to design, implement, and roll-out cloud/enterprise hybrid applications based on his real-world experiences rolling out production-quality cloud systems. This presentation will guide you to identify the different cloud architectures that you can combine with your application (Software as a Service or SaaS, Platform as a Service or PaaS, Infrastructure) and learn how to define an architecture based on cloud and enterprise components to attain maximum scalability at a low cost of deployment and operations.


Scalability, High Availability, and Performance Refcard

The terms scalability, high availability, performance, and mission-critical can mean different things to different organizations, or to different departments within an organization. They are often interchanged and create confusion that results in poorly managed expectations, implementation delays, or unrealistic metrics. The Scalability and High Availability Refcard (#43, DZone, 2009) provides you with the tools to define these terms so that your team can implement mission-critical systems with well-understood performance goals.


jtouch 1.1 Released!

jtouch is a Java-based GUI tool that offers equivalent functionality to the UNIX touch command. Users can select files or directories and touch them to update their modification time. The tool was created purely for convenience so that users can update file/directory times without having to open a console to execute the command. jtouch runs in any GUI environment (Linux, Windows) where Java is available. It's also packaged as a stand-alone Mac application -- just click and go!


Developing with Google App Engine

Developing with Google App Engine book The book is ready! Learn how to develop Google App Engine applications, along with the basics of cloud computing, Platform as a Service software, and how a distributed database model helps with scalability. You may find it at every major booksellers, on-line and in the real world.

Check out the table of contents, download the sample code, and find out what comes in its 164 pages. You may use it as a reference, or for learning how to build a complete application step-by-step. Every chapter builds on the knowledge gained in the previous one as new concepts are introduced from a simple greeting program to a complete App Engine application.