Access AWS via Putty and SSH for newbie

Look at http://clouddb.info/2009/05/17/a-quick-overview-of-putty-and-ssh-for-aws-newbies/, this website will be talking about how to access AWS via Putty and SSH in Windows because Putty can't read .key file directly.

Microsoft Thailand open the course for Windows 8 Application Development

In recent days, Microsoft has launched Windows 8 Consumer Preview. This version of Windows is the combination between old fashion Windows (PC) and Mobile (Windows Phone 7) to be used in all platforms, and expand their market to tablets. As you know, Windows Phone 7 uses Metro Style for its applications. In the same ways, Windows 8 has included Metro Style mode to allow developers implement Metro applications. 

We can write Metro style apps using familiar technologies like HTML5, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3), or XAML, with C++, C#, or Microsoft Visual Basic code-behind. Then, Microsoft Cooperation has raised the roadshow for Windows 8 around the World. Fortunately that Thailand is one of them. They corporate with famous universities in Thailand i.e. ChiangMai University, Kasetsart University, Assumption University. You can register at here on the bottom of the page to participate this event and see the information about time for the course.

Information from:  http://www.blognone.com/node/30587

Software Engineering for Software as a Service is now open

Few weeks ago, Berkeley open the course Software Engineering for Software as a Service as an online course, which is anyone can join it here. This course is mainly focus on agile development process, cloud computing, and high productive frameworks & tools.

Google Voice Search for CM7 (Android)

I have used Xperia X10 so far, and I regretted an official rom for X10 every time Sony launched. So, I have changed my phone rom to be CM7 instead. It is a great rom. However, it does not include voice search, then I found the problem that it can not be found form the market. Luckily, there is a person who ripped this program from his phone and share it in xda-developer forum here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1429125. Thanks to this, my phone has got almost all of important features in Android 2.3 except the basic one - multitouch, which is the hardware problem T__T. Finally, I hope you guys enjoy using it ^^.

MongoDB vs Redis vs Cassandra for a fast-write, temporary row storage solution

This link is a topic in stackoverflow, which is talking about comparing well-known NoSQL write operation such as MongoDB, Redis, and Cassandra.

Here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3010224/mongodb-vs-redis-vs-cassandra-for-a-fast-write-temporary-row-storage-solution

When Does Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Pricing Save Money

This blog will show some calculations to find the best usage point from the instance pricing.

HBase vs Cassandra: why they moved

This link is about the company which changed from HBase to Cassandra. He is working on a brand new product. He will explain why he don't use MySQL, and use NoSQL instead. But, before his team is going to use Cassandra, which is good at scalability and fault-tolelarance, they used HBase. Therefore, in this post he will tell why he changed from HBase to Cassandra.

Here: http://ria101.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/hbase-vs-cassandra-why-we-moved/

Java vs Python on Hadoop

Normally, in term of programming languages, the scripting languages are surely slower than Java , it mainly because Java has JVM to optimize running programs, also the code will be pre-complied before execution. But, scripting languages like Python usually use interpreter to compile and execute line by line. Still, Hadoop, which is written in Java also provide the universal interface for other languages by using streaming interface. Even, Java can run faster than Python but Python can develop programs faster. Compared to other scripting languages, Python is one of the faster ones after Java.

More details at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1482282/java-vs-python-on-hadoop.

Difference between Pig and Hive? Why have both?

There are some arguments in stackoverflow.

Benchmark of Python WSGI Web Servers

Take a look this site, http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers. He tried his best to benchmark the different WSGI servers. He presented in graphs to make easy understanding.