Archive for January 2009
Yahoo plans to discontinue its Briefcase service? Newer File Sharing Options.
Yahoo plans to discontinue its Briefcase service, which allows people to store files online for free.
The service will be shut down on March 30, the company said Wednesday. Yahoo is warning users to retrieve or delete their documents before that date.
Briefcase, which offered 30MB of online storage, was launched almost 10 years ago. However, “usage has been significantly declining over the years, as users outgrew the need for Yahoo Briefcase and turned to offerings with much more storage and enhanced sharing capabilities,” the company said in a statement.
There are now many alternative online storage services to Briefcase. Notable rivals include Microsoft’s SkyDrive, a Windows Live service that offers 25GB of free storage.
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Amazon Case Studies – Application Hosting Using Cloud Computing
Companies using AWS (Cloud Technology). Read the case studies to determine if its right for your business to move into the cloud.
Application Hosting
Abaca, a spam blocking application, chooses Amazon EC2 as a low-cost computing alternative after they surpass their estimated growth rate.
AdaptiveBlue builds a secure and instantly scalable business as well as an effective monetization platform using Amazon Associates Web Service and Amazon S3.
Autodesk, Inc. selects Amazon Web Services as the infrastructure upon which to build its new software-as-a-service solution, Autodesk Seek.
DigitalChalk powers its easy-to-use application for creating, delivering, and managing online training videos using Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon SQS.
DreamFactory selects Amazon Web Services as a cost-effective platform which meets technical and business requirements for delivering products in the cloud.
HostedFTP.com, a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) replacement solution for businesses, hosts their file sharing system on Amazon S3 and EC2.
LiveLeader estimates that they’ve saved nearly $200,000 by deploying their live chat tool for business on Amazon Web Services.
Mailtrust, who hosts email accounts for more than 100,000 businesses worldwide, uses Amazon S3 for their backup solution, cutting costs by more than 75%.
Built from the ground up using Amazon Web Services, Morph Labs markets a “full service” deployment, delivery and management system for web applications.
rPath saves $80,000 by migrating 7,000 software appliance images from rBuilder Online to Amazon S3.
To accommodate their growing business, Smartsheet—a web-based solution for managing tasks, projects and processes—turns to Amazon S3 for document storage.
Amazon EC2 allows Techout to horizontally scale virtual monitoring instances with speed and at low cost whenever and wherever they’re needed around the world2
The NEW Developer Resource Cheat Sheet! Tools and Resources
A very popular cheat sheet.
Thanks to: cheat-sheet.org
Web Development
Cascading Style Sheets
- CSS – single page – available in pdf and png formats.
- CSS 1 – pdf – two pages.
- CSS 2 – pdf – two pages.
- CSS – multiple pages, so not really a cheat sheet, but still quite useful. In html format, but with well formatted printing option.
HTML
- HTML elements – html format – prints over four pages.
- XMHTL elements – pdf format – two pages.
- HTML entities – good reference for all those © and type things. Single page pdf and png.
Other
- Colour chart – in hexadecimal – image on one page. Just the web safe colours – even though this is now pretty much outdated.
- Colour chart – decimal version. – also in hex.
Programming Languages
- Regular Expressions – every programmer should love regex – pdf and png.
- C – pdf – 1 page in A4 and US letter formats.
- PHP – cheat sheet in pdf and png.
- PHP – cheat sheet in pdf format – two pages.
- Python – cheat sheet – html format – prints in five pages.
- Ruby on Rails – single page pdf and png format.
- JavaScript – single page png or pdf.
- Java Server Pages – pdf two pages.
- Java programming – long cheat sheet – 11 pages in pdf format.
- ASP / VB Script – cheat sheet – png and pdf.
- XSL – pdf – 2 pages.
- XSLT – pdf – 2 pages.
Applications
- CVS – html – one page – very basic.
- CVS – pdf – two pages – in A4 and US letter format – comprehensive.
- Subversion – pdf – two pages.
- MySQL – cheat sheet – single page – png and pdf.
- MySQL 4.02 – pdf – two pages.
- PostgreSQL – html – two pages.
- VI – two pages – pdf format.
- VI – one page – pdf.
- emacs – pdf – 1 page.
Other
- Ascii codes – html – 1 to 2 pages.
- Google Quick guide – reference on basic and advanced search commands – html format – 2 pages.
- Windows Command Line – html format – 4 pages when printed.
- Unix command line – html format – 8 pages when printed (but could you do it in any less??)
- Debian Linux – two pages – pdf.
- mod_rewrite – the apache module – one page in pdf and png – another beauty from ilovejackdaniels.com.
- Apache – general apache directives – html – 1 page.
- SQL reference – html format – 2 pages when printed.
- Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows – html – 6 pages.
- UML – pdf – single A4 page.
