Month: January 2011
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Flex London User Group (FLUG) January meeting
A review of the January FLUG Meetup at Academy Class. Great venue with great staff. Very interesting presentation on video and Nice Agency presented iWonder. This is the best executed cross-platform product I have seen for a long time. It really shows how Air can be used. I will consider using Air rather than native…
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk – free Tomcat clustering in the cloud
This came today. It is quite interesting. Scalable cloud management on Amazon. It is “free” which contrasts with other offerings. My guess is that even the most basic of cloud management offering from Amazon will do 90% of what a small app developer needs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk (beta) Easy to begin, Impossible to outgrow AWS…
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Install Railo in Tomcat – where do I put my files?
This is repost of my contribution to the Railo Google Group. Goal You are a Railo and Tomcat newbie and you want a directory to put your coldfusion files in. “tomcat\myapp\ROOT” would do nicely Preconditions (for me anyway) 64 bit Windows 7 home premium UAC turned off and stays off Java installed and JAVA_HOME set…
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Design Patterns for Spatial Information Visualisation and Analytics Applications « Information Interaction
In an earlier post I wrote that user experience is the new battleground in software. If that is the case then this post and the referenced resources are good material for fighting it. Design Patterns for Spatial Information Visualisation and Analytics Applications via Design Patterns for Spatial Information Visualisation and Analytics Applications « Information Interaction.
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Apps is the new Web: sowing the seeds for Web 3.0 | VisionMobile :: blog
Another very insightful article from VisionMobile. What I thought was very interesting was that the author sees handset manufacturers adopting web technologies as a primary way delivering apps to a non-iphone and non-Android handsets. via Apps is the new Web: sowing the seeds for Web 3.0 | VisionMobile :: blog.
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Relative popularity of Java, ASP, Perl, PHP and Scala in print
When deciding what programming language to use for a project the answer is always “the one your team can use!” but even so it is interesting to compare the trends in the market. I have used Google Ngram Viewer to compare the frequency with which the names of various programming languages appear in books. If…
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