UPDATE: Fixed a small typo (mksf.xfs should have been mkfs.xfs)

You might notice that this site is running a little faster. This is because I have decided to try out hosting my site from within Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). EC2 is part of Amazon's Web Services, which also include the popular Simple Storage Service (S3), SimpleDB, and Simple Queue Service. Briefly, Amazon has decided to open up the computing capabilities and bandwidth of its data centers to the world, and has been steadily adding services and features over the last couple of years. A couple of weeks ago, they added a feature to their EC2 service that made it practical to run a web site from their cloud.

This might be jumping the gun a bit, but I wanted to let you know that a new version of Molecules, 1.1, has been submitted for review for the iTunes App Store. Even though it will take a bit of time to be approved, I thought you might be interested in a preview of some of the new features in this version.

I had a great time at the satellite iPhoneDevCamp in Chicago, where I was surprised with the number of well-known (to me, at least) developers who are located in the area. Although the San Francisco outpost may have had more attendees, I'd argue that we had as good a technical and business discussion going. We certainly had better shirts (courtesy of Stand Alone).