alanwilliamson

Alan Williamson's personal output as a Java Champion, BlueDragon Founder, Blog-City Architect, Cloud expert, Author, Speaker, and Internet Guru

Server side Javascript with CFML

I have been developing a plugin that enables Javascript to be used within CFML apps. Instead of coding CFSCRIPT blocks, you can use pure Javascript and get at all the CFML richness underneath. This is an introduction to that effort.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009

CFML Documentation core to Open BlueDragon

A revolution has begun, with the introduction of live CFML (JavaDoc like) documentation for OpenBD functions and tags. Never again, will you forget or misuse a function.
Sunday, 15 November 2009

Java 5 dies - mourning a revolution

Java5 officially dies today. Let us mourn the passing of a revolution in Java development and look at the legacy he leaves us.
Friday, 30 October 2009

Amazon takes MySQL to the cloud; or have they?

Amazon have released a slew of new features and products for their cloud. But as usual, the devil is in the detail. I go into some of the issues and discover that this may not be for everyone.
Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Engadget claims "biggest disasters in the history of cloud computing"

Engadget falls into the same trap that many bloggers/journalists have; not everything that runs in a browser is cloud computing. One server fault does not mark the end of cloud computing. It does leave many asking what cloud computing is.
Sunday, 11 October 2009

Amazon makes sharing data easier with shared EBS

Amazon releases the ability to share EBS snapshots so others can utilise and consume your data, irrespective of format.
Thursday, 24 September 2009

Amazon SimpleDB + SQS : Simple Java POJO Access

Amazon SimpleDB - SQS web services are within easy reach of any java developer with these 2 non-dependent class files. No fuss, no nonsense, just code that works.
Sunday, 6 September 2009

A Simple Java class for Amazon SimpleSQS

A very simple POJO Java class for accessing all of the features of Amazon's SQS web service. Full API support. No dependencies. Just use it!
Monday, 31 August 2009

New buzzwords for business; the Cloud [Cartoon]

Business Computing and buzzwords, go together like cheese and wine. Geek'n'Poke takes aim and finds the bullspot once again with their latest cloud related cartoon
Sunday, 30 August 2009

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is announced

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is announced in limited beta. Lots of interesting features and once again, they have moved the cloud world forward.
Wednesday, 26 August 2009

A Simple Java class for Amazon SimpleDB

A very simple POJO Java class for accessing all of the features of Amazon's SimpleDB web service. Support for all new methods including select, and batchputattributes. No dependencies. Just use it!
Friday, 10 July 2009

Adobe is killing the CFML language

Adobe is killing the CFML language and creating a monster in its place. Enough is enough.
Thursday, 9 July 2009

Rackspace wobbles but cloud remains

Hosting and Cloud provider Rackspace suffers an outage causing many people not able to reach their network.
Wednesday, 8 July 2009

How many servers does it take to make a cloud?

We love this new virtual world of ondemand computing, but have you wondered just how many servers Amazon, Google, Microsoft or any of the cloud providers really have at their disposal?
Thursday, 28 May 2009

Prague Cloud Computing Expo - core dump

Cloud Expo Europe was last week at Prague, and a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining cloud conference was had. Met lots of great people and spoke at length regarding peoples concerns about moving to the cloud.
Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Cloud Boot Camp heads to Prague May 19th

Preparing to take our Cloud Boot Camp Road Show to Prague
Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Closing Time

Another couple of conferences close their doors as we move forward into 2009.
Sunday, 12 April 2009

Sing-a-long to Cloud Computing

Come on now, lets all sing-a-long to the cloud computing song, a parody of Joni Mitchell.
Friday, 27 March 2009

New York's Cloud Boot Camp Final Schedule

The final schedule for next weeks Cloud Computing Expo boot camp has been finalised. Looking forward to next week.
Thursday, 26 March 2009

CloudBerry Explorer - a very polished S3 utility

If you are looking for a familiar interface for moving files up and down to Amazon S3 then you'll be hard pushed to find something as slick for the price.
Monday, 23 March 2009


 

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