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quite inter­est­ing cdn, con­tent dis­tri­b­u­tion net­work, sys­tem. Based on Ama­zons hard­ware sys­tems you can sign up as long as you have and ama­zon web ser­vices account and then use Ama­zons stor­age sys­tem.
This is not web host­ing, can­not run a web site from it but you can store and retrive data.

Pric­ing is good, i believe, as you pay only for what you use. There is no min­i­mum fee, and no start-up cost and it’s $0.15 per GB-Month of stor­age used and $0.20 per GB of data transferred.

It is also acce­si­ble via bit tor­rents and SOAP.

THere are some tools around. A really slick one is a fir­fox add-in S3 Fire­fox Organizer(S3Fox) which gives you a two pane ftp type view. The other is AWS Ware which is added to an FTP server to do the transfers.

per­haps one of the suc­cess sto­ries of foss and in the sold arena to. Most of the main­stream ven­dors do a vari­a­tion on the cms which they charge for and umpteen star­tups and other ven­dors do cms’s which are either free to use and or both free to use and you can obtain and hack the source as well.

cms is a real catch-all acronym and the func­tion­al­ity of them varies wildly, some being lit­tle more than blogs, or bul­letin boards to the ones that man­age con­tent in quite sophis­ti­cated ways with ver­sion­ing etc and even the ecms, enter­prise cms that will man­age you web across mul­ti­ple sites.

cms watch lists, looks at an analy­ses cms and they break them into 4 group­ings. ‘Web Con­tent Man­age­ment Ven­dors’, ‘Enter­prise Con­tent Man­age­ment Ven­dors’, ‘Enter­prise Search Ven­dors’ and ‘Enter­prise Por­tal Vendors’

book­mark capa­bil­i­ties Digg, del​.icio​.us, and Fark etc

here is a free book to tell you all about it.

And i quote “Pro­duc­ing Open Source Soft­ware is a book about the human side of open source devel­op­ment. It describes how suc­cess­ful projects oper­ate, the expec­ta­tions of users and devel­op­ers, and the cul­ture of free soft­ware. It is avail­able in book­stores and from the pub­lisher (O’Reilly Media), or you can browse or down­load it here.

Pro­duc­ing Open Source Soft­ware is released under an open copy­right that allows every­one to share and mod­ify the book freely. The lat­est ver­sion is always here. The online ver­sion is the same as the com­mer­cially avail­able print ver­sion — in other words, you can buy a printed copy and know that it’s up-to-date. When and if there are sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ences, we will list them here”

.…. seri­ously good tool. Quote “The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment for build­ing Ajax appli­ca­tions. It fea­tures code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS lan­guages, FTP/SFTP sup­port and a JavaScript debug­ger to trou­bleshoot your code.”

As i work on Mac, Win­dows (spit­ting sound) and Linux at var­i­ous machines in var­i­ous offices i need a portable kit to take some of the learn­ing curve out of my life. Recently i nearly choked on Dreamweaver. I mean it’s ok but like mot MS based stuff it does what some­one from Red­mond or Wash­ing­ton or wher­ever wants it to do to do not what i, in Not­ting­ham, Paris or Flo­rence wants to do.

Usu­ally i use Eclipse and plug Aptana in but recently been using Aptana on it’s own.

you will know why win­dows and visio suck. and here a graf­fle­topia is every graf­fle dia­gram set you could ever want

sleep­ing planet

North­west Cau­casian lan­guages have rather sim­ple noun sys­tems, man­i­fest­ing only a hand­ful of cases at the most, cou­pled with highly agglu­ti­na­tive ver­bal sys­tems so com­plex that vir­tu­ally the entire syn­tac­tic struc­ture of the sen­tence is con­tained within the verb. They do not gen­er­ally per­mit more than one finite verb in a sen­tence, which pre­cludes the exis­tence of sub­or­di­nate clauses in the Indo-European sense; equiv­a­lent func­tions are per­formed by exten­sive arrays of nom­i­nal and par­ticip­ial non-finite verb forms (although Abk­haz appears to be devel­op­ing lim­ited sub­or­di­nate clauses, per­haps under the influ­ence of Russian).