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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Keyapt – how to get an AJAX application in the Google index.
Our Android application Keyapt SMS is coming along nicely. Chris is tweaking the session management and I am doing the marketing plan. Keyapt SMS has three parts: the Android Application, the Web Client and the Keyapt Server in the middle … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Cloud, Keyapt
Tagged ajax, Android, Google, keyapt, keyapt sms, smartclient, webcrawler
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Problems in the bedroom department
As a foot soldier and occasional general in the army of IT professionals who are moving trade on-line I occasionally worry about the death of the high street. HMV and Woolworths have gone and now Comet is in difficulty. The … Continue reading
Posted in Business models
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Londroid 16 Sep 2011 – 1.6 million downloads
The Londroid September meetup was a great success. Here is a quick review for people who could not make it. Kabbee – A marketplace for minicab journeys – Phil Makinson What is Kabbee? Kabbee is a price comparison and booking … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Business models, HTML5, iPhone
Tagged Android, Dependency injection, Facebook, IPhone, Phonegap, Smartphone
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Amazon Web Services Blog: Updated Mobile SDKs for AWS – Improved Credential Management
Amazon have now given more information on this feature in this blog post. Updated Mobile SDKs for AWS – Improved Credential Management via Amazon Web Services Blog: Updated Mobile SDKs for AWS – Improved Credential Management.
AWS SDK for Android – A Library for Building Android Applications on Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, and more.
I am a big fan of Amazon Web Services. We use it for the serverside components of our Android application Keyapt. Today I came across this useful SDK that helps you use AWS services from within Android applications. AWS SDK … Continue reading
Password strength joke
I was asked for an 8 character password; so I chose “Snow White and the seven dwarfs”.
Microsoft online services hit by major failure
Perhaps it should be called Office 364 rather than Office 365? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14851455
Posted in Cloud, Humour
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CloudBase Meetup – relational databases don’t scale
Last night I attended the CloudBase Meetup at Hackney Community College that was arranged by Shawn of Tech Meetups (well done Shawn). It was a good venue if rather hard to find and escape from. The speakers were: Steve Caughey, … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Infrastructure
Tagged Amazon EC2, cloud, Cloud computing, Database, IBM, MongoDB, NoSQL, Relational database
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Rational discrimination in employment
This is a rather odd post for me. Typically I am posting about Cloud and Project Management but I occasionally branch out into economics and this is such an occasion. Last night I attended CloudBase which was held at Hackney … Continue reading
Posted in Business models
Tagged Discrimination, Education, Employment, Minority group, rational discrimination
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