Month: September 2012
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Apple Maps joke
An Apple announcement “Following the release of the iPhone 5, many businesses have reported that they are at the wrong location. We strongly recommend that they move to their correct Apple Maps location as soon as possible. Although Apple have a strong patent portfolio in this area we will not take action against businesses who…
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Amazon web services support Python
Python is the new kid on the block. A relatively easy to use interpreted language. AWS have recognised this. Here is the press release (some what late). Dear AWS Customer, We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python applications. Elastic Beanstalk is an easy and fast way to deploy and manage…
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Amazon Web Services provides a facility to sell unused capacity
One of the potential risks of buying reserved instances on the Amazon cloud is that you might buy more than you need. This has been a consideration for me for hosting the Keyapt app. Now Amazon lets you sell excess capacity to other users. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace The Reserved Instance Marketplace gives you the…
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Why bootstrapping a start-up does not work
I have been thinking recently about why my own boot-strapped* start-up keyapt.com has not been as successful as we would like. The answer lies in the “fail fast” mantra. When you have a start-up it is necessary to try lots of different ideas out on your customers. Some of these fail but if you are smart…
Dr James Bayley 