Posts tagged “oyster”
Oyster at the NWE.pm Hackday (pt2)
Continuing the writeup of the recent NorthWestEngland.pm hackday (Part 1): Server We’d originally assumed that the main backend would be EC2, purely because it seems to have more mindshare currently (for example, the opensource initiatives around Eucalyptus and OpenStack seem to be targeting the EC2 API as a de facto standard). However Marco Fontani (who […]
Oyster at the NWE.pm Hackday (pt1)
Mark Keating has already blogged in detail about the NorthWestEngland.pm Hackday 2010 from a social & logistic point of view, and I’ll just agree here that it was indeed awesome in the true sense of the world! Instead, I’d like to wrap up some detail about Oyster itself, the project that about a dozen of […]
NorthWestEngland.pm hackday on Saturday! (20th November 2010, Lancaster)
So, we’re gearing up for the NWE.pm Hackday (wiki)! We’ll be mostly working on the following projects: Oyster: “an incubator for perls in the cloud” (roadmap) (tasks). This is the project I proposed, and I’m very excited (and very very scared!) about it. Ironman (Last year’s main Hackday project, ably herded by Ian Norton and […]
Oyster Project – write an open-source tool for instant webapp provisioning/deployment to the cloud in one day… why aim so low?
Yesterday, I submitted Oyster as a possible project for the northwestengland.pm Hackday. Last year, the team built Planet Ironman, an aggregator for Perl bloggers. As well as the several man-days of work during the hackday itself, the group then ran with the project for the next year. NWE.pm are a really smart bunch of guys, […]