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Aptana Cloud 1.0 Released! Studio Updated to 1.2
"a suite of online services integrated right into Aptana Studio 1.2 that puts the power of cloud computing to work for you." Congrats to Aptana on the release.
Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities
* Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone.
* There's now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2.
* Microsoft Windows is now available in beta form on EC2.
* Microsoft SQL Server is now available in beta form on EC2.
* We plan to release an interactive AWS management console.
* We plan to release new load balancing, automatic scaling, and cloud monitoring services.
Google Geo Developers Blog: Geocoding... in Reverse!
// go pamela!
geocoder.getLocations(latlng, function(addresses) {
if(addresses.Status.code != 200) {
alert("reverse geocoder failed to find an address for " + latlng.toUrlValue());
} else {
var result = addresses.Placemark[0];
map.openInfoWindow(latlng, result.address);
}
});
Graphics in Google Chrome
A great post on the choice of Skia. I *do* wish that Cairo had won that battle, and that it had been made better thanks to Google engineer contributions, but c'est la vie. Cool that Skia is out there now thanks to Android.
Ten Years
As I start an adventure at Mozilla, it is great to see people like Stuart Parmenter writing about their 10 years.
Firebug Weekly Meeting Recap, October 21, 2008
Firebug is picking up steam: Firebug 1.3.0b2 is available on getfirebug.com
Discussed Honza’s awesome improvements to the Net panel
Discussed John Resig’s further efforts on FireUnit and NetUnit integration
Starting to push new code to 1.4 branch, 1.3 for bugfixes and cleanup only.