Month: July 2011
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Jenkins and Hudson; from below stairs to cloud 9
A continuous integration server is an essential part of many teams’ workflow so I have been following the on-off relationship of Jenkins and Hudson with some interest. I already use cloudy issue control (in fact I sell training for FogBugz) and now one can get cloudy CI servers as well. Read more at… http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/08/cloudbees_eclipse_plug_in/
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Amazon Content Delivery Network
In an earlier post I refered to Damon Hart-Davis’ investigation of cloud services because it followed the same path as my own with similar conclusions. He has now published a fourth part on Amazon Content Delivery Network (CDN). A CDN caches static resources closer to the user. This gives your user a faster browsing experience…
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Android-12 (Honeycomb) emulator does not work
If you have recently updated your Android SDK you will find this target; id: 17 or “android-12” Name: Android 3.1 Type: Platform API level: 12 Revision: 2 Skins: WXGA (default) You may be lured into creating an emulator using it. If you do, don’t expect it to work. I wasted…
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Get rich in China; an historical perspective
I am not really a technologist, I am an entrepreneur who loves technology because it can create products that people want to buy. As such, I am fascinated by the Georgians and Victorians and the development of the entrepreneurialism. In Georgian times (1774), as now, the balance of trade deficit with China caused huge difficulties…
Dr James Bayley 