Month: November 2011
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Amazon AWS add IAM support to Elastic Beanstalk
The announcement from Amazon keep getting better and better. I am very pleased that we selected AWS as the platform for Keyapt. Keyapt SMS uses Elastic Beanstalk but until now the development team had to share a login. Today Amazon announced that Elastic Beanstalk users will be able to use the Identity and Access Management…
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Amazon add Route 53 support to console
I have previously blogged about Amazon Route 53 and how you needed to use third party tools. Well from today Amazon Route 53 can be managed from the Amazon console. This is good.
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Review of AppCircus at Techhub
Last night’s AppCircus event at was a good show. Very professional and well curated. Unfortunately I missed the deadline to speak but Keyapt SMS is listed in their app database. Some interesting apps were presented. The ones to watch are echoecho, a cross platform “find me” app and siine a semantically aware keyboard that changes…
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Review of Londroid automated build Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/android/events/39952702/ Good, lots of Maven and Robojuice users. Conclusion seemed to be that automated testing on Android is hard and you have to seriously consider whether you are better off releasing a beta and letting users test. Keyapt SMS is a relatively small app and I will stick to testing by hand for now. Mippin…
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Day 1 figures have been posted on blog.keyapt.com
I won’t make a habit of cross-posting from blog.keyapt.com so if you want to see our first first day’s download figures (which contain some surprise) go there. If you would like to be kept informed please “follow” the blog by email. Please Facebook, Like and Twitter about Keyapt SMS. Many thanks, James
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The Keyapt blog is up and running
Now Keyapt is up and running it needs its own identity. Follow the growth of Keyapt at blog.keyapt.com. This will be primarily for non-technical issues and should be of interest to those who are interested in app marketing and development. This blog will continue to discuss project management, business models, infrastructure etc.
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Keyapt SMS has been launched
After almost a year of hard work on and off by Chris and I we have launched Keyapt SMS and it is available in the Android Market. I launched it at Appsjunction last night and it was well received. The challenge now is to create a revenue model that will work for users and ourselves.…
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FlurryAgent.setUserID error
Flurry is an excellent tool for understanding how users are using your mobile application. Although they only have a few methods they have still managed to get an error in the documentation. FlurryAgent.setUserID(String) Should read FlurryAgent.setUserId(String) (keywords: Flurry bug, fail, error, documentation, token, compile, class name, method name)
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Amazon Web Services support SMS notifications
This addition to the notification service is good. Your first 100 SMS messages per month are free. The notification service is good for implementing work flows and this SMS functionality if good for alerts. http://aws.amazon.com/sns/
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Nokia Windows phones
My attention has been somewhat distracted from technology by the Euro crisis and questions such as “are the Euro nations an optimal currency area“. I always thought the Euro was a bad idea and I was right; perhaps I should have bet against it but I did not, firstly because I don’t know how (and…
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