Author: Jeff Barr

I will be giving an AWS talk in Second Life on Friday, November 30 at Noon PST. The talk will take place at the amphitheater on Dr Dobbs Island. This will be a genuine “talk,” with streamed audio, so make sure that your speakers are working! I am planning to talk about web-scale computing, the […]

The Amazon S3 team is looking for feedback on their proposal to support browser-based file uploads. This feature will allow developers to build web-based applications which support upload of local files to Amazon S3 without the need for an intermediate server. If you are interested in helping to shape the definition this feature, you should […]

We have openings in our Luxembourg office for a web services evangelist and a business development manager. You can apply via the link on the job description, or (if you act fast) you can attend the Luxembourg Working Worlds Job Fair in Second Life on November 28th. Amazon personnel will be on hand to talk […]

My friends over at Bungee Labs have just rolled out a new version of their web-based Bungee Connect development tool. New features include better ways to manipulate field, class, and function definitions, a statement completion control, and support for the Subversion revision control system. Bungee Connect is currently in “early access” beta mode. You can […]

We received an incredible number of submissions for the AWS Start-Up Challenge! We’d like to offer our congratulations to all seven of the finalists and we’d also like to thank everyone who submitted an entry. The quality, creativity, and diversity of thought present in the entries was beyond impressive. In the next couple of weeks […]

The Tokyo Linux User Group will be conducting a combined real-life / Second Life meeting this weekend. Lars Kotthoff will be giving a presentation on a Ruby script he has developed for backup using Amazon S3 . The presentation will be given in English. The Second Life portion of the meeting will take place in […]

Earlier today, Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL for short) is now available in beta form on Amazon EC2.  This agreement unites Red Hat’s network management, technical support, and application library with the on-demand scalability of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, allowing customers to create robust, reliable systems which can easily respond […]

Are you a developer based in Portugal? I’ll be in Lisbon on 13 November for the Codebits conference. I’ll be there a day early (12 November) if you’d like to meet for coffee, or have me brief your team on Amazon Web Services, etc. Simply add your request to the AWS Evangelism Wiki at http://evangelists.wetpaint.com/page/MikeCulverEuropeFall2007. […]

Another post from the road In this case the road is a three-week trip to Ireland, Germany, Portugal, and Canada before returning to Seattle. This week Im in Berlin for Web 2.0 Expo and Interop; both are under one roof. Todays announcement that were launching Amazon S3 in Europe has me really excited, given where […]

We received several requests from different parts of India for more information about the Amazon Web Services. Hence I am putting together a trip to India in early December. Wipro’s product engineering has already been ahead in the game. We love the Wipro folks and we worked together and co-presented at MySQL Conf 2007, which […]