Memos

Yesterday Amazon announcedAmazon EC2 Spot Instances. From their announcement:

Spot Instances are a new way to purchase and consume Amazon EC2 Instances by allowing you to bid on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long as your bid exceeds the current Spot Price.

Basically it’s “Pay what you want” or “Name Your own price” for Cloud Computing.

Anyhoo, that gave me the idea to throw together this dashboard to track the Spot Prices. Here is a link. Let me know what you think.

Amazon Spot Tracker

http://spots.jbrass.com

Cakephp comes with a class called the AjaxHelper. This file should really be called the PrototypeHelper. The caveat to the AjaxHelper is that to use it, you must also include the Prototype and Sciptaculous javascript libraries in your webroot to make it work.

I prefer working with the Jquery javascript library. Out of the box I cannot use Jquery with the AjaxHelper. The Cakephp Bakery has a Jquery Helper, but it does not have the same functionality as the ajax Helper. I did a search and found Pquery. Pquery is a Php helper class for Jquery. It is on the NGCoders site and they even have a Cakephp version.

I think that the developers of Cake should think about how other Javascript frameworks might play with Cake. I will be calling the PqueryHelper the AjaxHelper in my applications.

After Months of beta testing and tweaking the team at 12d Networks has released Filmstreamer.net, the premier social networking site for working individuals in the Entertainment Industry.

If you sign up, tell them joelmedia sent you.

www.filmstreamer.net

This video is from Akjak. It is a remix of Darth Vader clips with audio snippets of James Earl Jones dialogue from other movies.
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