Composite-developer to fight in global Cloud Face-off

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Composite-developer to fight in global Cloud Face-off

The product manager of the leading Microsoft based cloud CMS Composite C1 puts on his gloves.

Let’s get ready to rumble.On November 21st Composites product manager Marcus Wendt will square off with one of the industry’s most experienced cloud developers when he takes the floor in a Developer Cloud Face-off

The Face-off takes place in Seattle and is hosted by The Seattle Web Technology Meetup Group and Jennifer Reed – author of ‘Office 365 for Dummies’.

Bitrix Strengthens SaaS Offering With Amazon EC2

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ALEXANDRIA, VA. – Feb. 16, 2010 – Bitrix, Inc. (www.bitrixsoft.com), a technology trendsetter in business communications solutions, announces the availability of Bitrix® Virtual Appliance 1.5 for Amazon EC2, a major release of the free virtual platform that creates an optimal performance environment for Bitrix® Intranet Portal and Bitrix® Site Manager.

The software underwent a number of significant improvements to deliver customers more reliability and services while using the company’s CMS/EMC solutions in Amazon Web Services. Bitrix Virtual Appliance is based on a self-updating Fedora Linux operating system, includes the latest versions of the Bitrix web environment, and features increased system performance and optimized memory usage. Following the latest Amazon development initiatives, the software now supports all three datacenter location regions (US – Standard, US – N. California, EU - Ireland).

The release also includes the beta-version of Amazon EBS storage volume, customized especially for Bitrix Virtual Appliance. This feature allows the user to create up to 1TB of back-up copies of web projects and intranet portals, roll-back projects to a specified point in time, protect data for long-term durability and remain sure that the data is securely stored and guaranteed by Amazon.

"SaaS deployment provides a wide range of benefits connected with cost reduction and quality of service," said Dmitry Valyanov, President of Bitrix, Inc. "It reduces expenses on high-priced hardware, IT staff and the user pays only for the actual software usage time. Moreover, customers get the service provider’s guarantee for solution availability, security and integrity."

Sitefinity CMS Adds Cloud Storage Services

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Telerik, the producer of Sitefinity ASP.NET content management platform, is excited to announce its support for cloud storage services through Amazon S3. The combination of accelerated growth, new information types, and the need to serve hundreds of locations and millions of users around the world has pushed the emergence of a new unconventional type of web information management. Cloud optimized storage is a next-level storage services category which addresses the traditional storage issues of massive scalability and global data distribution. By adding provider for cloud data streaming and storage, Telerik makes another giant leap in its quest for a powerful and scalable web development tool.

IT books on my reading list

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I have been doing a lot of reading lately.  More specifically, I have been reading a lot of IT reference books.  In fact, I venture to say that I'm probably one of the few people who ever brought a book on version control systems to the hospital while waiting for neurosurgery.  I really didn't  get much read that day, but I think I still get bragging rights!

Below are the list of IT books I'm currently reading.  Except for the book on Subversion, the other two books are more to refresh my memory and keep me up to date with the latest changes taking place in Fedora Core (Linux) as well as PHP/MySQL.  I wouldn't call any of the three books required reading, but I would say that these type of books do assist those in IT  in the areas of professional development.  Let me also give notice that the links provided to Amazon.com reference my associates account with them.

Content Management Systems do Exotic Dancing

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Various online companies provide services where you embed code in your Internet pages which display ads pushing their products or products of their clients. A number of these services will use keywords on your site's pages as clues for displaying the products your visitors most likely want to see.

Amazon of course provides such a service through their associates program. Since I've been using a beta version of their code, I've seen an increase in the number of ads featuring content management systems related products. That is good news. However, every now and then, I also see a book advertised called The Art of Exotic Dancing. When you are showing your co-workers or significant other an article on this site and they see the ad about exotic dancing...how much more embarrassing can it get?

This isn't the first site that I have seen the books about exotic dancing be displayed at my site. I have also seen the ads get displayed at WebCMS Forum which is a forum I manage. (As you can also see via the link, this is also not the first time I've whined about the advertisements). I have two theories as to why Amazon may be displaying the more racy content in its advertisements: