EnterpriseDB announced that their PostgreSQL based database offering will be available inside of Amazon's EC2 cloud. Some details are available from Information Week

Interestingly enough, Adobe has added H.264 support in Flash. I wonder what this means for VP 6.2?

Here's an article about it

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world – with a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels - and they're keeping it all to themselves from the looks of the picture below.

We’ve been trying to come up with a migration strategy for moving data between two versions of our JCR/Jackrabbit based application. This was motivated by the following goals:

P2P has a bad rap. Many associate the initialism with stealing content, not legitimately distributing it. Even more frustrating for those involved in the networking field is that file sharing is only one of the many interesting things one can do with a network of distributed computers. To work around the stereotype, many players have taken to referring to their P2P technologies using different terms. Content distribution networks being one of them.

I started my career in the middle of the VR hype. After working in the space for a year, I had an interview with a journalist who was convinced that within a year we'd be able to pop into a photorealistic world and interact with one another. At the time I was both amused an horrified that someone had bought into the hype.

The Cell SDK from IBM includes a useful library called ALF, the Accelerated Library Framework.

ALF provides a task oriented abstraction for having parallel work done on the Cell's SPU units. ALF allows a developer to define a task consisting of a compute kernel, essentially a block of code that will be executed on the SPU, and a set of work blocks that the task should be performed on. The library will handle SPU allocation and DMA transfers (including support for double-buffering).

Workflow engines have gone mainstream: Just take a look at Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Microsoft is giving it away free, bundled with .NET 3.0. Normally, workflow engines can cost upwards to $50,000.

By now I assume most people have tried out some form of virtualization.  Whether it be Microsoft's Virtual PC to create a security sandbox or a robust solution like VMWare to host multiple distinct servers on a single piece of iron, virtualization is making significant inroads.  

One of the strengths of the English language is its malleability. Spoken around the world, the language twists and turns, morphs and absorbs, in a constant state of evolution.