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We should mourn Businesslink.gov.uk because GOV.UK is crap
Businesslink.gov.uk has gone to be replaced by the the “Simpler, clearer, faster”, ugly and inaccurate GOV.UK I worked for Businesslink and I was proud of the job done by my myself and my colleagues. For those who don’t know Businesslink was a website provided by the DTI (later HMRC) for small businesses. It provided accurate…
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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…
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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 include You have an Ethernet connection to your laptop and you can now share it with your mobile phone or tablet. You are in a meeting room that has wired Ethernet but no wireless. Now…
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Olympic ticket website is badly designed
In my occasional series on websites I truly hate this must be the worst so far. The Olympic ticket website is designed to cause the maximum frustration to users by actually lying to them. The scenario is this Lord Coe appears on telly last night says “please buy some football tickets” The Olympics people…
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Japan does not have street names…
Something in the “everything you know is wrong” vein: Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers. via Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers. | Derek Sivers.
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Is a Microsoft Branded Tablet a good idea
There are rumours of a Microsoft branded tablet. What you you think?
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Amazon Web Services internal load balancing
This is a very nice feature from Amazon that allows the adoption of a more scalable and secure infrastructure. Dear Amazon Web Services Customer, We are excited to announce that you can now create a load balancer in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (“VPC”) for internal load balancing. With this new feature, you can balance…
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 