Monthly Archives: January 2011

Flex London User Group (FLUG) January meeting

Posted on January 28, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk – free Tomcat clustering in the cloud

Posted on January 21, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Install Railo in Tomcat – where do I put my files?

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Design Patterns for Spatial Information Visualisation and Analytics Applications « Information Interaction

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Apps is the new Web: sowing the seeds for Web 3.0 | VisionMobile :: blog

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

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: … Continue reading →

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Relative popularity of Java, ASP, Perl, PHP and Scala in print

Posted on January 5, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

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