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2011 a year of blog posts
The nice people at WordPress have kindly done a report on this blog. I seem to have made about 80 posts and received 6500 page views. Should you like to know more feel free to click the annual report. https://blog.jamesbayley.com/2011/annual-report/
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The Power of Making at the V&A
Yesterday I went to the Power of Making exhibition at the V&A. It is an exhibition of crafted objects that range from Swarovski crystal bicycles to replacement human noses. My older (12, 16) children enjoyed it and my youngest (8) tolerated it. Favourite objects: Me: 3D printer for making small objects from plastic Elaine (my…
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Creating data-driven graphs
I have a need to programmatically create flowcharts and organisational charts for use with an WordPress or Wiki site. This sort of diagram is called a “graph” (not be confused with “charts” in this context). Graph software falls into the scientific or commercial category. Good scientific packages include JUNG, Prefuse, Piccolo2D. These are optimised for…
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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 for a reserved instance and in exchange Amazon will lower your hourly rate. The more you pay the lower the hourly rate. Keyapt SMS have a server that runs continuously. Therefore we should look a…
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EC2 does maintenance reboots
I got an interesting mail from AWS today. One or more of your Amazon EC2 instances have been scheduled for a reboot in order to receive some patch updates. Most reboots complete within minutes, depending on your instance configuration. The instance(s) that will be rebooted and your scheduled reboot time(s) are listed below… If you…
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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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