Turn your PC into a WiFi hotspot
Connectify Hotspot is a great free utility that lets you turn your PC or laptop into a WiFi hotspot. Typical use cases …
Category Archives: Infrastructure
Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer • The Register
An interesting article on Windows 8 Server. Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer More than just a few tweaks… …
Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications – All Things Distributed
I am interested in Amazon’s new NoSQL database DynamoDB. We develop Android applications and a core requirement is scalable session …
EC2 reserved instances for baseload
Amazon recently announced new options for their EC2 reserved instances. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/?ref_=pe_8050_22086710 With this product you pay a small amount up-front …
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 …
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 …
Skype on Android – save serious money
I provide FogBugz training and spend quite a lot of time on the phone to the USA. I prefer to …
London Silicon Roundabout September Meetup – Cloud Base – London Silicon Roundabout (London, England) – Meetup
This looks like a really interesting event. I will certainly be going. Enterprises are beginning to find that they just …
Jenkins and Hudson; from below stairs to cloud 9
A continuous integration server is an essential part of many teams’ workflow so I have been following the on-off relationship …
Amazon Content Delivery Network
In an earlier post I refered to Damon Hart-Davis’ investigation of cloud services because it followed the same path as …
Dr James Bayley 