Category Archives: Cloud

Eclipse and GAE and AWS

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For “suits”, Excel is the gaffer tape of the business world. For a long time Apache Ant was the gaffer tape of the Java development world. It was great and I actually looked forward to writing yet another build.xml file. I did switch to maven for a while, but my heart wasn’t in it. Since switching to Google App Engine and Amazon Web Services, I’ve found that I haven’t touched a build.xml file for years (CruiseControl not withstanding). When you don’t need the gaffer tape anymore, it means that someone has fixed the problem.
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Flip Flopping

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I’ve been away from the blog for quite sometime. It would seem that I need to take 6 months (or more) to re-energise my blogging batteries. My thanks to all who continued to read in my absence. I hope I can repay your commitment but finding my own. So here I am returning from an incredibly busy period of my life. I return to Google App Engine having moved on significantly and having gained a good deal of experience with Amazon Web Services. I feel a compare and contrast post coming on. That’s right, I did move over to AWS for a while, but fear not I have flip flopped back to the mighty GAE and will be very happy to tell you why.