Author: Jeff Barr

The developer of Phozi sent me an email today, asking for some blog coverage, and I am more than happy to oblige. Starting with an uploaded photo, a photo from a webcam, or from a mobile phone, Phozi makes it really easy to add all sorts of decorations to the photo and to post it […]

Our Wiki experiment is now a standard scheduling tool! I am available for meetings in Colorado On June 25 and 26, and am willing to drive to almost any destination along the Front Range. I am happy to visit with companies, individual developers, bloggers, and other folks to talk about the Amazon Web Services. Please edit […]

I’m visiting Dallas next week to present to the Dallas ASP.NET Users Group on Tuesday, May 22. If you are interested in meeting with me, having me present to your users group, etc., please email me to set something up. Am open on Wednesday (all day) as well as Thursday morning. –Mike Culver

A month or so ago, I attended a SOA Conference and Business Process Management Conference (there were multiple conferences in one venue), put on by the BrainStorm Group in Chicago. Lots of serious enterprise architect types attended the conference, where they were able to share their experience and learnings with others, as well as hear […]

There were some questions/concerns regarding the Amazon’s Simple Queue Service: What can it be used for? What has it been designed for? What types of applications can use this type of service ? and so forth. Thomas Howe wrote an excellent post about Amazon SQS. His innovative application idea triggered me to write this post. […]

On Monday, May 14th I will be at Amazon’s Munich office for meetings with developers, bloggers, and the press. At 2 PM that day I will be conducting a special meeting for Amazon Associates that would like to learn more about the Amazon Web Services. The presentation will include the following elements: AWS overview, with […]

It never hurts to try to wish a product into existence… I received an email from an EC2 user asking me about search tools. This user runs a high traffic site on an array of EC2 instances, and is in need of a search solution. He knew that he could buy a search appliance, but […]

I’ve been on the road a lot this past month, including trips to Orlando, Barcelona, London, and Las Vegas. During that time I’ve met a lot of interesting people and have accumulated a whole bunch of relevant links: eWeek just published a new article, Enomalism Helps Manage Virtual Machines. Read all about their viewpoint on […]