This is an article posted on CloudAve. As you might know the Open Cloud Manifesto debuted on March 30st. It outlines the pillars of Cloud Computing as well giving a brief on what the possible threats and weaknesses could challenge the early and future adopters. The manifesto declares 4 major goals of an Open Cloud:…
Middle East is usually behind when it comes to the bleeding edge technology. Clearly because we don’t build bleeding edge technology unless we are US or EU residents! One of the greatest aspects of Cloud Computing is SaaS (Software as a Service). With the current credit crunch creeping all over the world, this might be…
A recent school project got us excited to explore the idea of mapping the trees of city of Vancouver in a more practical way. My friends and I had a fruitful meeting today with @daeaves who has extensive information and experience in this subject. There is a tree mapping platform, OpenTreeMap, to start with. It…
In mid October 2013, Apple started recalling mid-2012 Macbook Airs, due to a SSD problem that was apparently and isolated issue to Toshiba drives only. I found out that my mid-2012 Macbook Air had a Toshiba SSD, so I booked a meeting at the Genius bar of my local Apple Store in Vancouver. The store…
With the emergence of the iPad, there are many trends changing and many ideas developing around an old but finally well-developed phenomenon: the tablet computer. Although I am somehow late giving my opinion on the subject, I think it is worth the try. One of the areas cloud computing can be very useful and extremely…
In my journey to hopefully master Ruby on Rails, I’m amazed to see that many authors (in blogs or in books) most of whom are pretty expert in the field, choose to exit the Rails console completely (using CTRL+D) when they need to restart the environment (to clear up the objects in the memory, for…