tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689275521557212387.post4745457030431152338..comments2008-04-11T16:13:46.733-07:00Tim Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05946371696574191455noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689275521557212387.post-76067257028244604752008-04-11T16:13:00.000-07:002008-04-11T16:13:00.000-07:00The bane of the cloud is bottleneck dependencies. Now when EC2 has a hiccough, large numbers of apps go down.<BR/><BR/>But the obvious benefit of cloud apps and cloud app development cannot be doubted. Being able to write a Rails app (on Heroku) to target FireEagle without a file being made on my hard disk has been a real eye opener.DEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13468138772103258101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689275521557212387.post-46766152880091669892008-04-11T11:44:00.000-07:002008-04-11T11:44:00.000-07:00Hey Tim,<BR/><BR/>Glad you think oDesk is a good enabler to this type of application development for SMBs. We're constantly striving to make it easier for SMBs to find top-quality resources in a rapid on-demand way.<BR/><BR/>fyi - we just recently launched some cool pages to show programming trends. http://www.odesk.com/trends. <BR/><BR/>-Josh<BR/>oDeskJosh Breinlingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03643502439852372092noreply@blogger.com