Month: February 2011
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Apple eats core, business of publishers
To date Apple have “permitted” publishers to have apps on the iPhone and iPad that are media readers for content that is purchased outside of Apple’s platform. Spotify is a well known example. They have recently decided to levy a 30% toll on such subscriptions. Personally I think it is unwise to **** with the…
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A week in the life of a development team manager – in song
For many years I was a development team manager. I recently heard Flanders and Swann’s “The gas man cometh” and as a tribute to them and all software development teams everywhere, I composed this little ditty. ‘Twas on a Monday morning the coder came to call. The programme wouldn’t run – it wouldn’t work at…
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Do I want users or cash flow from my new product?
There is an eternal debate about which is more valuable, users or cash flow. There is no right answer because it depends on your business and your business plan and what you want to do with your product but asking the question is always valuable. The mobile wars have added a new twist to this…
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HP rocks Microsoft with webOS PC play
I have always wondered why HP bought Palm and its WebOs. Now it makes sense to me. This is a convergence play. We have Google with Chrome/Android, Apple with Mac/Ios leaving Microsoft with the great big windows Windows and the little boy no-one wants to play with, Windows Phone. (see update below) HP rocks Redmond…
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Android goes virtual • The Register
This is very interesting. Run Android on a JVM on any smartphone. I won’t bet on Java on the iPhone… Android goes virtual As of today, Myriad’s Dalvik virtual machine can run any Android application on the Maemo-based Nokia N900, with other platforms to follow soon. The idea is to get manufacturers to preinstall Alien…
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Free cloud email – Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)
An interesting announcement from Amazon which offers a free cloudy email service (my bold). Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) (beta) Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers. Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution…
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ColdFusion is a high level language; why does it capture less value?
I am a project manager and I have worked with both ColdFusion and Java development teams. I have often wondered why it is that ColdFusion developers get about 60% of the rate of the comparably skilled Java developer. ColdFusion is a high level language. The built-in features including authentication, search, clustering, image processing etc means…
Dr James Bayley 