Today Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, released Ubuntu 9.04. What makes this release stand out from previous Ubuntu releases is the new Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services. Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services is the first commercially-supported Linux distribution that enables businesses to build private cloud environments inside their firewalls. Companies will now be...

Too many posts to handle? If you missed out on a great post from last month, here’s a quick digest of the top posts that you may want to check out: Erlang Debugging and UTF-16 Posted on Monday, April 6th, 2009 in Erlang – Comments: (0) I’ve been teaching myself Erlang.  It’s a great Functional Programming language. I’ve also dabbled a...

Lets rewind to about a month ago. As I usually do, I skipped past the README files and installed Erlang with apt-get. Ten seconds later, I had Erlang up and running on my Ubuntu development VM. Like a bad teenage horror movie, I’m sure you can see where this is going. Fast forward to present day. I was running into another serious compiler error with Erlang. A...

I’ve been teaching myself Erlang.  It’s a great Functional Programming language. I’ve also dabbled a little with Scala. Besides wanting to learn a new computer language, I’ve also wanted to port some of my high-traffic Ruby On Rails sites into Erlang. Erlang will be able to handle 3x-4x the traffic using less resources. Less EC2 instances up...

Too many posts to handle? If you missed out on a great post from last month, here’s a quick digest of the top posts that you may want to check out: More News of Google Buying Twitter Posted on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 in acquisitions – Comments: (0) More rumors today from TechCrunch about Google and Twitter.  Michael Arrington from TechCrunch...