last year i spoke at the panorama capital cio summit. until early the morning of my presentation, i didn’t even know what i was going to discuss. i didn’t sleep well the night before and got out of bed before 6am realizing i had something to say about how standardization and adoption of ‘cloud’ stuff will be similar to what happened in networking.

focus on many aspects of cloud standardization has reached astonishing levels of confusion and vitriol, none of which seem warranted. in an effort to introduce a bit of perspective into the debate, i am posting my slides from that talk last year. enjoy.

i was on a panel at web 2.0 expo discussing cloud operations. a great time was had by all and there was excellent audience engagement, participation, and questioning during and after. developers: the future of operations is in your hands.

this excellent piece on the trouble with url shorteners from joshua schachter seems to me a perfect companion to this proposal from henning von vogelsang on referencing sources in twitter messages. oh, such interesting times!

what would a week be without new code? after eight months ignoring it i went back to the tlsreport code and was horrified by it. some hacking and slashing has produced tlscollect which is a standalone, command line tool and gem for tls configuration detection.

after a five day wait for review, SpokeMonkey is available in the app store (and it’s free!).