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Phil tweeted, "Headed home into the snow."
Phil tweeted, "@Simon Thanks Simon. Using #aws in the class has made a world of difference."
Phil tweeted, "@spig What happened?"
Phil tweeted, "@trentlarson Yes, the labs are all AWS related. Nothing's free, but it's cheap. :-) They have a nascent Univ. program that helps."
Phil tweeted, "@robert_brady I'm teaching a class on large scale distributed systems. The labs are done on AWS. Fun class."
Phil tweeted, "Eating fresh bread my daughter made with honey. Yum. :-)"
Phil tweeted, "@MikeDJones The drive was tortuous. Took me 30 minutes to get from the TMCB to the stadium."
Phil tweeted, "@robert_brady Teaching. Class was good today. 30 students."
Phil tweeted, "Headed to BYU for first class of Winter Semester."
Phil tweeted, "@davejenk1ns I don't disagree that that's a good place to look,, but we also ought to be able to manage more assets for less per asset $"
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Sean McGrath has a tough time seeing the case for visual programming languages in a predominantly imperative programming model. I think he's on the mark. But Sean thinks SOA will change this. This is already true, to some extent. Several of the Web services intermediary products I've reviewed recently use visual prgramming tools, notably Grand Central Communications and CommerceOne's Conductor.