Jim Liddle

Amazon Cloud Journal on Ulitzer Following on from my last post, Securing Applications on the Amazon Elastic Cloud, One of the biggest questions I often see asked is “Is Amazon EC2 as a platform secure”? This is like saying is my vanilla network secure?  As you do to your internal network you can take some steps to make the environment as secure as you can, such as: - First read the Amazon Security Whitepaper and the Amazon discussion of Security processes - Ensure the system key is encrypted at start-up - Ensure you plan for load balancing in case an instance goes down. Ensure you understand all the security implications of this and harden any other instances. - Test or emulate the performance of applications deployed to the cloud in all geographies where you plan to d... (more)

Fixing the Dell Mini OSX Keyboard problem

The Dell Mini I use with OSX has the US keyboard layout, but a friend of mine layout and had a pr0blem that after his OSX instal, he could not get the backslash symbol to work using the key immediately to the right had side of the space bar. It comes up as ` instead. I eventually fixed this problem, and you need to do the following: 1. Place the windows-uk.keylayout file in your ‘/Users/... (more)

Cloud Computing Best Practices

Some of the key things to think about when putting your application on the cloud are discussed below. Cloud computing is relatively new, and best practice is still being established. However we can learn from earlier technologies and concepts such as utility compute, SaaS, outsourcing and even internal enterprise centre management, as well as from experience with vendors such as Amazon a... (more)

Space Based Programming in .NET

At a recent Skills Matter event in the UK Goyko Adzic presented  for over an hour on Space Based programming in .Net. The slides are embedded below, but as this blog is syndicated and sometimes the slides get stripped out, you can find them here. Space Based Programming View more presentations from gojkoadzic. You can also view the Video of the presentation directly on Goyko’s blog here. ... (more)

What Does Legislation Mean to Cloud Users?

Cloud Computing Journal A complaint made by The Electronic Privacy Information Centre to the US Federal Trade Commission could lead to Google online services being closed down. They want Google shut off until Google adopts procedure and standards for safeguarding confidential information. The Financial Times reported earlier in the year: In a 15-page complaint to the FTC, the Electronic... (more)