UHURU + SKUDA Beta Access
*Update* (14/03/13): The Beta has been extended due to core changes in Cloud Foundry code. And a nice, new shiny API is on its way.
As the year draws to a close, so too does the previously mentioned beta developer access to Uhurucloud, which works off the CloudFoundry engine, but custom fitted with turbo, freeflows and an XBOX so you can drive while you drive (we herd, dawg).
Personally, I've still got a tough few days ahead, with some seriously wicked applications as a result... help is welcome. But that's just a side issue I slotted in here because this blog has been gravely neglected.
Developers:
This will be the last call to arms from my side, you miss it, you miss out. I'm trying some radical approaches and building/stabilizing templates in a few frameworks, but mainly PHP.
If you are reading this, and really want to know what I'm talking about please click this link. It's a direct link with a promo code appended to the url.
I'll give a quick breakdown of how far the Uhuru stack has come in the roughly six months I've been working with them, but a white-paper-level report is in draft.
When I was invited, it was a barren landscape. There was a Wordpress template, but
With each upgrade/revamp/bug-squash (and the Uhuru team is lightning fast at responding to support queries, friendly too), it's gotten remarkably better and easier to use.
Currently there are extremely stable Wordpress, Magento, Umbraco, Drupal, and several other Ready-to-Go (RTG) app stacks. This "pure" HTML instance has been up non-stop for months.
'But that's just a..' -- sorry, I'm going to cut your thoughts short there. If you doubt it, try it, abuse it then talk. And if you want to comment, there's a special place for it down there ↓
Git is coming, Python is coming. What makes Uhuru and SKUDA different to, say, Amazon, or Google?
You know us by name. And we aim to keep it like that for as long as humanly possible. For now, all you need to worry about is abusing the facility. How often are you invited to try and push the limits of an infrastructural framework to what they say it can't do. You know what I mean by "they". "Them".
SKUDA is about breaking barriers, not for the sake of it, but because they make sense. SKUDA is about deobfuscating the continuously piling on of services, frameworks, apps and not only software but hardware as well. Because we believe it needs deobfuscating.
We have been quiet, yes, but I assure you - far, far from stagnant.
Developers, this is not your run-of-the-mill yet another cloud factory operation. SKUDA do not link up with those.
And on that note, I will hopefully post by year end with a recap of 2012 (not a boring one, you're still reading, right? I'm not boring... r-right? O.o) but 2013 is THE year. It's time to bring back the ethos of the oldweb. Our web. It's time for the New Year's Revolution.
~ R Essop aka skopp