Mika Tuupola

Interesting events this week.

Amazon

Amazon EC2 gets static ip addresses.

The Elastic IP Addresses feature gives you more control of the IP addresses associated with your EC2 instances. Using this new feature, you use the AllocateAddress function to associate an IP address with your AWS account. Once allocated, the address remains attached to your account until released via the ReleaseAddress function.Separately, you can then point the address at any of your running EC2 instances using the AssociateAddress function.The association remains in place as long as the instance is running, or until you remove it with the DisassociateAddress function.

jQuery

Nick Kallen went wild and created relational database with jQuery and HTML tables- .

Today I was thinking aloud about Tree Regular Expressions and how they might make a nice query language for document databases like CouchDB. Someone pointed out that CSS3 selectors might make a great concrete syntax for this. One thing lead to another and I thought, why not build a relational database in HTML? So I did. I even got inner joins working.

Google

New static maps API for Google Maps.

The Google Static Maps API lets you embed a Google Maps image on your webpage without requiring JavaScript or any dynamic page loading. The Google Static Map service creates your map based on URL parameters sent through a standard HTTP request and returns the map as an image you can display on your web page.

Nial Kennedy wrote a clear explanation of Google App Engine

Google App Engine lets any Python developer execute CGI-driven Web applications, store its results, and serve static content from a fault-tolerant geo-distributed computing grid built exclusively for modern Web applications. I met with the App Engine’s team leads on Monday morning for an in-depth overview of the product, its features, and its limitations…