Monthly Archives: November 2008

“Q4E and Eclipse IAM, Maven integration for Eclipse” slides from ApacheCon

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I have uploaded the slides from my talk Q4E and Eclipse IAM, Maven integration for Eclipse at ApacheCon in New Orleans. You can download them from the session page. It’s an introduction on the features, the roadmap, integration with other plugins,… Talk went well, few questions during the Q&A round but a lot more as I left the stage 😉

If you are interested in Maven, you can check too Brett Porter‘s talk More Apache Maven Best Practices.

The rest of ApacheCon is being great, a lot of networking as usual, attending a few talks to get introduced on some interesting technologies and drinks on the nearby, Bourbon street, walking distance (or crawling, depending on who are we talking about).

Amazon Web Services: habemus Windows

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This is going to be a little bit out of order with my other posts about Amazon AWS, but it’s worth doing it. Amazon has launched finally the ability to run Windows images in EC2. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 actually, from 0.125$ per hour, compared to the 0.10$ for the unix/linux instances.

The instances are accessible through Windows Remote Desktop or the open source multiplatform rdesktop client. The first time you launch an image the password is generated, but you can change it for new images you make based on that one.

A nice feature that will save a lot of time is the ability of creating new Windows AMIs from the ElasticFox interface with a couple of clicks, without needing to mess with software installation in the image (more on image creation in next posts) which is way easier than the process for linux images.

You can also run Windows Server with SQL Server Standard, but watch out for the 1.10$ per hour, which makes 792$ per month that you can compare to the 6000$ processor license fee.

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