Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
This week Google announced that Chrome is now going to support extensions and plug-ins. Early design documents and reference materials have been released and I'm looking forward to seeing what gets developed. I downloaded and installed Chrome shortly after it was released as I was interested in the performance enhancements available. I hate to admit that unfortunately I haven't used Chrome much primarily due to the lack of extensions - specifically one extension.
The extension that I use more than any other is HttpWatch. Being able to view all the headers and cache settings is invaluable when troubleshooting and analysing a web applications performance. Without the ability to access this information in Chrome I continue to use IE and Firefox as my primary browsers and haven't used Chrome in months. Once I can get a plugi-n that provides this information in Chrome I may be able to start using it more frequently. If I was a developer I would write the extension myself but instead I eagerly await the notification that this much needed extension is available.
About Dawn Parzych Dawn Parzych is a product manager for F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. For the past 2 years, she has been in London working as an acceleration architect with F5 customers based in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Dawn has helped companies in finance, retail, media, and other industries optimize performance levels and overcome Web application delivery challenges. In her ten years as a Web performance specialist, Dawn has covered everything from load testing to Web performance monitoring to application delivery.
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