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Problems in the bedroom department
As a foot soldier and occasional general in the army of IT professionals who are moving trade on-line I occasionally worry about the death of the high street. HMV and Woolworths have gone and now Comet is in difficulty. The problem is that that shops offer both a discovery and transaction service but customers only…
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Londroid 16 Sep 2011 – 1.6 million downloads
The Londroid September meetup was a great success. Here is a quick review for people who could not make it. Kabbee – A marketplace for minicab journeys – Phil Makinson What is Kabbee? Kabbee is a price comparison and booking service for quality minicabs in Greater London. Very nice use of a smartphone. This is…
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Amazon Web Services Blog: Updated Mobile SDKs for AWS – Improved Credential Management
Amazon have now given more information on this feature in this blog post. Updated Mobile SDKs for AWS – Improved Credential Management via Amazon Web Services Blog: Updated Mobile SDKs for AWS – Improved Credential Management.
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AWS SDK for Android – A Library for Building Android Applications on Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, and more.
I am a big fan of Amazon Web Services. We use it for the serverside components of our Android application Keyapt. Today I came across this useful SDK that helps you use AWS services from within Android applications. AWS SDK for Android The AWS SDK for Android provides a library, code samples, and documentation for…
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Password strength joke
I was asked for an 8 character password; so I chose “Snow White and the seven dwarfs”.
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Microsoft online services hit by major failure
Perhaps it should be called Office 364 rather than Office 365? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14851455
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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 done Shawn). It was a good venue if rather hard to find and escape from. The speakers were: Steve Caughey, Arjuna Francoise Dechery, CloudBees Alvin Richards, MongoDB Richard Davis, ElasticHosts Kjetil Olsen, Elance Steve Caughey…
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Rational discrimination in employment
This is a rather odd post for me. Typically I am posting about Cloud and Project Management but I occasionally branch out into economics and this is such an occasion. Last night I attended CloudBase which was held at Hackney Community College. The principal Ian Ashman gave a good introduction to the work of his…
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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 use my mobile phone with its headset but I really don’t like paying £ 1.76 per minute or whatever it is. I don’t even know what 02 charge me because I can’t understand their tariff.…
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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 can’t do without Cloud Computing. Most technologies are moving off-premise to the cloud and bundled into a service. In fact everything is a service nowadays – 1. BaaS—Backup as a Service 2. CaaS—Communications as a…
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 