Month: October 2011
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A good review of Android ice cream sandwich
http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-everything-you-need-to-know-954464 So far I don’t see anything that affects the utility of our application Keyapt. I am looking forward to learning more about api changes, particularly as they concern SMS.
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Jobian schadenfreude
It has been said of college reunions: “Every time I meet a more successful school friend something inside me dies”. Having been in IT for 20 years the reviews of Steve Jobs’ achievements make me feel like being at one of those college reunions. So in the spirit of schadenfreude, Steve Jobs arrives in heaven,…
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How to start-up a tech company
I was at Droidcon last week and was asked by some graduates about how to start-up a tech company. Here for what it is worth was my advice: In my humble opinion key success factors include Creating a subscription product so you only have to sell it once and earn forever Identifying your distribution partners…
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R53 Fox is great for managing Amazon Route53
Amazon Route 53 is a great way to manage the DNS entries of your cloud services. A key feature is its ability to map your domain apex such as “keyapt.com” to an elastic load balancer instance. To actually create the mapping you use the Elastic Load Balancer CLI (command line interface). The command elb-associate-route53-hosted-zone and…
Dr James Bayley 