News Rollup for the Week of November 17, 2008

Two major bits of news from this week:

  • Amazon has gone live with their new CDN (Content Delivery Network), CloudFront. Think Akamai for the rest of us. Pay as you go, hooks into S3. If you want to get a jump start on this, get yourself the latest version (0.4.5) of S3Fox, the S3 addon for FireFox. Getting started is easy: sign up for CloudFront (or sign up for Amazon Web Services if you haven't already, then sign up for CloudFront), create a bucket, put content in it, make it publicly readable, create a 'distribution', enable it and map a CNAME to the cloudfront.net hostname that corresponds to the distribution. We'll be doing some testing of the Amazon CDN over the next few weeks and do a review.
  • Adobe AIR 1.5 has been released. Among the improvements: encrypted local database, Flash Player 10 support (no H.264 for Flash 10, though :-( ), and an update to the WebKit bundled with Air. InfoQ has a nice summary of the Adobe MAX Air 1.5 buzz.

If you've got any news that you'd like to announce, ping us at ajax@pathf.com.

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