We have opened the doors on The Cloud Market!  We have a lot more features yet to release, so do keep checking up on progress and you can also follow us on twitter.

We are hoping over time to build up more and more functionality to help people find the AWS images they need quickly and effectively and also allowing them to track the evolution of images (both paid and free).  Also we have already just added support for EU images!

I’m sure I’ll have more to blog on it in the future – right now its back to cooking up business ideas.

I have been working on Hadoop and HBase lately, and one of the first things I hit was the fact that they aren’t in a Maven repo.  I found this blog post which got me started, but I thought I would push out an update for the new HBase 0.19.1 release.

Grab the HBase POM here (not official) and then set HBASE_HOME and run the deploy_deps.sh script.

Hope it helps :)