Category Archives: Railo and ColdFusion

A review of Railo 3 Beginner’s Guide by Mark Drew

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

I have been blogging ColdFusion for several years and Mark’s publisher kindly sent me a copy of his new book to review. Railo 3 Beginner’s Guide is a great introduction to the ColdFusion language and using it on the free … Continue reading →

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Jenkins and Hudson; from below stairs to cloud 9

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

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) … Continue reading →

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Amazon Content Delivery Network

Posted on July 7, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Android-12 (Honeycomb) emulator does not work

Posted on July 5, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

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What is cloud computing?

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

In an earlier post I reviewed the Cloud Computing World Forum show in London. In response I recieved a comment. How cloud computing is different from the Internet. More precisely, What is the difference between a “Hosted website” and “SaaS … Continue reading →

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Cloud Computing World Forum review – Microsoft strong, others weak

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

I attended the Cloud Computing World Forum at Olympia on Tuesday. It was good size show and reasonably well attended for what is an Enterprise topic. The keynote speakers were all heavyweight and gave good talks. The show was themed … Continue reading →

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unix shell or Windows Powershell?

Posted on June 16, 2011 by

Chris and I are building a complex application called Keyapt SMS. It has a mobile component, a server component and a pure JavaScript front end. The source and build control requirements for this are complex. We manage the source and … Continue reading →

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Amazing statistics on smartphone usage in Europe

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

Following hot on the heels of the Vision Mobile report on the future of smartphone development comes a post from Flurry analytics. Flurry is installed by SmartPhone developers to monitor the usage of their applications. So successful has it been … Continue reading →

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Amazon EC2, Rackspace or Google App Engine?

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

In an earlier post I blogged about my experience on Amazon EC2 (I like it) and referred the reader to an article on The Register from Damon Hart-Davis who is following a similar journey. Damon has continued his investigations and … Continue reading →

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Which mobile platform should I develop for?

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

I have been working in the enterprise Java space for many years and this domain is now rapidly becoming “legacy” (ie. the stuff that just works and makes the business all its money). The exciting sexy stuff is all MOBILE! … Continue reading →

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