My talented brother, Tim Watrous, has worked in the advertising industry for nearly 15 years now. His background started on the technical side, but he quickly found his strengths in the larger scope of marrying the business to a best possible advertising solution. He and I often talk shop and tonight we got on the topic cloud computing. I mentioned some of my experience with the two most prominent platforms available, Google App Engine (GAE) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The following details come from an email that I drafted for him to......
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One disappointment of developing for Wicket and Google App Engine (GAE) is that the automatic monitoring and reloading of modified HTML files didn’t work. It had something to do with the single threaded nature of the GAE platform. I had found a few previous efforts to make this work, but none of them worked with the current version of Wicket and GAE. I went without it for a while, but restarting the web server after every markup change finally drove me to figure it out. Working with the project that I setup using......
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