Using an architecture similar to the Monster Muck article, this article focuses on building automated pool management and services in a Java world. The example would be largely based on the typica code sample and an open source project called “lifeguard

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Amazon S3 provides a good distributed storage solution for accessing the distributed computing power of Amazon EC2. Using Ruby scripts like s3sync and s3cmd at the command line, you can move data to and from EC2 instances in your computing cloud.

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A screencast by AWS Evangelist Mike Culver about Amazon Simple Queue Service and why it’s the “glue” that holds Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications together.

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Expert AWS developer Mitch Garnaat takes us through his Monster Muck Mashup application, which supercharges the process of converting video for his iPod.

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Warbler is a gem to make a .war file out of a Rails project. The intent is to provide a minimal, flexible, ruby-like way to bundle up all of your application files for deployment to a Java application server.

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I spent the past few days hacking my new HP DV6000 Pavillon laptop.

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Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a single click.

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