CSS Is Dead (Tables are Back, kinda)

Now those of us in the ColdFusion world will not let Kevin Yank forget his inpetuous article about the demise of ColdFusion. Especially with all the cool news coming out of Adobe MAX right now. That boy needs some help for sure about application server languages. Ignore his ignorance and consider looking for some good knowledge he does have to offer... he has a new book out that is marvelous. And it is FREE for two weeks as a PDF at SitePoint. (Note, your going to have to follow them on Twitter to get the free book.)

With that being said there is something us developers must deal with on a regular basis. CSS... what a pain it can be. Though his history is partially off the general context is right in this YouTube video. Check it out. (If you don't want to get the free copy be smart enough to get a print copy... in fact get one anyhow!)

DB in the Amazon Clouds

I just received an email for Amazon on the new database hosting for the clouds. Yes, they are still doing Amazon SimpleDB, but they are now going to be offering Oracle and MySQL support also!

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MySQL has long been a popular choice with Amazon EC2 developers, and with the addition of Amazon EBS it is even easier to use it with the AWS cloud. For those with a MySQL Enterprise subscription, MySQL now offers full support for Amazon's industry-leading virtual computing environment. Developers can now cost-effectively deploy an open source database in the cloud with full software and production support by the database experts at MySQL. MySQL enterprise on Amazon EC2 offers developers optimal performance, reliability, security, and uptime. See more details about running a MySQL database on Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS, including a tutorial for the best practices on setting up a high availability MySQL database cluster using AWS.
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Hopefully that will be enough info to get you started... if not jump over and check it out at Amazon. :)

Comic Relief Intro: GOOGLE's new Browser

Check your calendar, this is Sept. and not April 1! Yes, you read the blog post correct. Google is going to be trying out the browser market. Hey, it sure helped Microsft... now they want to take this for a spin. One nice thing is you get the intro in comic book form... sadly static comics. They must have gone to scroll comics, inc. to have this one put together! Yes, don't worry... still get to flip the pages... and pages... and pages... HEY, didn't someone tell Google we read comics so we get to do less reading! LOL

We are told the browser 'may' ship today. Oh... they agree with Adobe and Apple and it is reported they are building on WebKit. (Links to follow when they are posted.)