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Cloud Computing World Forum review – Microsoft strong, others weak
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 A,B,C = approach, build and communicate (social) and this worked well. What was odd is…
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unix shell or Windows Powershell?
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 build control in FogBugz and Kiln (Mercurial). [We also provide training in these]. Chris a…
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Amazing statistics on smartphone usage in Europe
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 that they are installed on 85% of all smartphones and track over 15 Billion user…
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Amazon EC2, Rackspace or Google App Engine?
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 his next article is available. Readers of his earlier post will be pleased to see…
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Which mobile platform should I develop for?
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! So where should I be putting my developement effort? Android, Apple, Blackberry or Windows? We…
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How to price software products – think brand
I recently gave a presentation to the UKCFUG entitled “How to make and sell software products”. This talk was sponsored by Fog Creek because I offer training in the UK and Europe for FogBugz and Kiln. I thought I would write a bit more about software pricing and then I found that Joel Spolsky of…
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Create data centric products to get rich
Data, not software, paves the road to riches via Data, not software, paves the road to riches • The Register. This is an interesting article. I would also add that data is the only long-term competitive advantage. With any product you want a positive feedback effect; each new sale should increase the value of the…
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FogBugz training tip: take care with Windows symlinks in Mercurial (Kiln)
We had a strange problem this weekend. I develop on Windows 7, my co-worker uses Ubuntu. After he upgraded his Ubuntu and got a more recent version of Mercurial he could no longer download the repository. The problem was that Ubuntu hg was choking on a file that had once been a Windows symlink. Some…
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Play a wav sound when your ant build has completed
I have spent the day doing various ant builds. I leave the build running and sometimes don’t notice that it has finished or failed along the way. Wouldn’t it be nice if the ant script went beep on success or failure? Well at the Windows 7 command prompt you can do prompt> (CALL ant dist…
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ElephantPM is now on Twitter
You can now follow me on Twitter @ElephantPM. In a quirk of self referential fate this blog posting will now be syndicated on Twitter.
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 