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In Ireland (see above)

By using DataMapper for instance I don't see why you need to change the schema, one major difference is that you need to specify the fields in the models.

There's also http://macrabbit.com/espresso/ with is quite expandable and already starting to build a small community. It's at early beginning but it looks interesting.

EC2 isn't free but it's pretty cheap, it starts from 0.10$/h. If you follow the tutorials on EC2 you'll see that it's pretty well explained how you see your running instances and how to stop them. There is also elasticfox, a Firefox plugin to manage your instances (and other complex commercial management tools)

I'm from Romania and I am applying for college in UK, even though it's ok here I consider there are other opportunities in Western Europe (it's too hard for an EE student to go straight to Silicon Valley).

Yes, for EC2 you are charged the amount of time that you use, your machine uses the RAM and still uses the CPU (it's not completely idle).

But SimpleDB's machine hours is the actual time of your queries.

Google reader caught it, here's a link from my shared items: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/10769756911853394104.

They are saying that they are opening the beta to everyone, offering limited free usage (500MB, 25 machine-hours) and that they reduced the pricing to $0.25 per GB per month. It's limited to 100 domains with 10GB each.

Interesting blog, reading it from the beginning for the compiler tutorial.

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25, that caused more damage then erasing a phone.

Too bad that companies from other countries could not participate.

They have posted two keynotes and said they will upload the rest of recordings. See the links on http://twitter.com/merbcamp.

TextMate!

Mistaken with percents, I'm sorry.

Also watch the other talks at MerbCamp, they are streaming live. http://www.merbcamp.com/webcast

Any idea on when Vertebra will be released ?

See above, somebody posted a fast mirror.

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I was expecting right click menu.

Thank you for taking into consideration my option, it's not a requirement for me. I'll play more with your app see how it feels.

At first sight it's nice, simple and needs a bit of polishing. It's a bit annoying to not being able to delete groups.

I know that you want the app to appear when you need it, but I personally would like it to stay as a normal app after I unhide it and cmd+tab on it.

Sure, it appears as feed icon in my Firefox 3.0: http://feeds.feedburner.com/github

It's illegal and also you don't have full hardware support.

Then just make a lot of small requests that take less then 8 seconds. Maybe Google will allow background jobs.

I use it to separate and scale parts of my application.

More specifically I am building a continuous integration application in Ruby and using SQS as build and result queues from which EC2 instances pick up tasks, builds them then add into the result queue. I don't need ordering and don't mind a few seconds of latency.

PS: If you are interested in beta testing it please drop me a line.

There's also Djago Dash for pythonists (http://djangodash.com/).

You can also not branch if you work on one thing at a time. Commit locally then merge with the central repository.

I'm hoping too but currently no ISP I know has IPv6 support for customers (they may have on their backbone).

IPv6 instead of IPv4. No NAT and enough IP's for all your network devices (pda, laptop, printer, etc.)

Slicehost has a articles about configuring a server http://articles.slicehost.com/.

I use git, Rails and Capistrano. Git is nice because everybody has a copy of the repository and in case the server is down or you are offline you can still work.

No, +1 for Flock. I'm also using FireFox for developing (FireBug).

Yes, that's the problem of using EC2 for webhosting, after restarting the address of the instance changes. It's best to have a fixed reguler server and then instances varied on demand. RightScale is a company that sells this kind of services.

Those who use DB on EC2 (from what I read on the web) just don't restart their instance and make backups to S3.