Monthly Archives: May 2011

Create data centric products to get rich

Data, not software, paves the road to riches via Data, not software, paves the road to riches • The Register. This is an interesting article. I would also add that data is the only long-term competitive advantage. With any product … Continue reading

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FogBugz training tip: take care with Windows symlinks in Mercurial (Kiln)

We had a strange problem this weekend. I develop on Windows 7, my co-worker uses Ubuntu. After he upgraded his Ubuntu and got a more recent version of Mercurial he could no longer download the repository. The problem was that … Continue reading

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Play a wav sound when your ant build has completed

I have spent the day doing various ant builds. I leave the build running and sometimes don’t notice that it has finished or failed along the way. Wouldn’t it be nice if the ant script went beep on success or … Continue reading

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ElephantPM is now on Twitter

You can now follow me on Twitter @ElephantPM. In a quirk of self referential fate this blog posting will now be syndicated on Twitter.

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Amazon IAM does not support Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon Identity and Authorisation Management is now out of beta and has both a GUI and a command line unfortunately it still does not work with Elastic Beanstalk. It gets worse. You single username and password provides complete access to … Continue reading

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Android Market goes commercial in 131 countries

Android Market goes commercial in 131 countries. Everywhere except China. via Android Market goes commercial in 131 countries • The Register.

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New graphics engine hack risk to Firefox 4 and Chrome users

I am have not upgraded to Firefox 4 yet because I am waiting for the bugs to shake out. The Register reports a potentially serious issue. … On Tuesday, members of the US-CERT echoed the advice that WebGL be disabled. … Continue reading

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Elastic Beanstalk review

I have been doing a small scale trial of Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk. I have previously trialled Rackspace cloud. I am impressed Amazon’s with the ease of use and configuratibility. Amazon’s is very much the techies’ solution. Although Amazon Web Services … Continue reading

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FogBugz and Mercurial training in London

One seat left for FogBugz and Mercurial training in London next Tuesday. 60% discount. Call 07989 381331 for details.

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