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What's the best way to generate a tag cloud from an array using h1 through h6 for sizing?

I have the following arrays:

$artist = array("the roots", "michael jackson", "billy idol", "more", "and more", "and_YET_MORE");
$count = array(5, 3, 9, 1, 1, 3);

I want to generate a tag cloud that will have artists with a higher number in $count enclosed in h6 tags and the lowest enclosed h1 tags.

What is Cloud computing? [closed]

Could anybody explain in plain words how Cloud computing works? I have read the Wikipedia article, but still not sure that I understand how cloud actually works.

When to use Amazon Cloudfront or S3

Are there use cases that lend themselves better to Amazon cloudfront over s3 or the other way around? I'm trying to understand the difference between the 2 through examples.

What is the Difference between a Light, Medium or Heavy utilization Reserved instances on EC2?

They talk about the different utilization instances, but I can't find a single place that actually states what the difference is between a light utilization Large instance or a heavy utilization Large instance other than price. Can someone please tell me what the difference is?

Using Git and Dropbox together effectively?

How do I use Git and Dropbox together effectively?

What is SaaS, PaaS and IaaS? With examples [closed]

There are various cloud services available today such as Amazon's EC2 and AWS, Apache Hadoop, Microsoft Azure and many others... So, to which of the above category do they belong and why?
And which type of service is more popular today and why?

What's the difference between Apache's Mesos and Google's Kubernetes

What exactly is the difference between Apache's Mesos and Google's Kubernetes? I understand both are server cluster management software. Can anyone elaborate where the main differences are - when would which framework be preferred?

Why would you want to use Kubernetes on top of Mesosphere?

Google Cloud Messaging in Delphi XE5?

I've got an android app that I am thinking about porting to Delphi but I can't see a way to interface with GCM. I am thinking I would possibly have to run the GCMBaseIntentService in java and interface with the delphi shared object?

Alternatively, I am looking for a way to do push notifications in a Delphi Xe5 android app.

Amazon EC2 - Swap root instance store device with EBS device

I have an EC2 instance with "instance store" device as a root device. Now, I would like to attach an EBS volume to that same instance, only that I want it to be the root device. Is that possible? What happens to the instance store device in such case?

Thanks in advance

Difference between cloud computing and distributed computing?

I wanted to know about the difference about cloud computing and distributed computing. I read an article about cloud computing and got a feeling that somewhere there is a relation between cloud computing and distributed computing and so wanted to ask about difference between technologies.

Also if someone could point me to useful resources for cloud computing, it would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

Force CloudFront distribution/file update

I'm using Amazon's CloudFront to serve static files of my web apps.

Is there no way to tell a cloudfront distribution that it needs to refresh it's file or point out a single file that should be refreshed?

Amazon recommend that you version your files like logo_1.gif, logo_2.gif and so on as a workaround for this problem but that seems like a pretty stupid solution. Is there absolutely no other way?

Windows Azure or Amazon EC2 for ASP.NET MVC Development?

If you want to build enterprise ASP.NET MVC applications that use MSSQL databases is it better to use Windows Azure or Amazon EC2?

I didn't find any satisfying answers.

So what are the advantages and disadvantages of the two cloud plattforms (Price, Performance, Simplicity of integration, ...)?

What alternatives are there to Google App Engine?

What alternatives are there to GAE, given that I already have a good bit of code working that I would like to keep. In other words, I'm digging python. However, my use case is more of a low number of requests, higher CPU usage type use case, and I'm worried that I may not be able to stay with App Engine forever. I have heard a lot of people talking about Amazon Web Services and other sorts of cloud providers, but I am having a hard time seeing where most of these other offerings provide the range of services (data querying, user authentication, automatic scaling) that App Engine provides. What are my options here?

Windows Azure for web developers vs Amazon EC2

I just watched the Windows Azure intro video and it left me feeling like it was a front end shell for hosted IIS instances. Can anyone who know more (possibily that was part of the beta) shed on why you would use this vs. EC2.

it seemed easy enough but really didnt give specifics on how it works, why it works or why you would use this vs the traditional solutions out there?

Which programming language for cloud computing? [closed]

Now that the new cloud computing-era is coming, and I am going to learn to program, I don't know which programming language the clouds support.

I think what the support Java, ASP.NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl etc. and not the low-end languages, like C, C++ etc... Or am I wrong? If that is so software companies will have to re-develop their software. Is this the time you can start a project, and you have no big software company as a competitor?

I want to know which language I should focus on learning, so that I can develop for the cloud.