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Do I want users or cash flow from my new product?
There is an eternal debate about which is more valuable, users or cash flow. There is no right answer because it depends on your business and your business plan and what you want to do with your product but asking the question is always valuable. The mobile wars have added a new twist to this…
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HP rocks Microsoft with webOS PC play
I have always wondered why HP bought Palm and its WebOs. Now it makes sense to me. This is a convergence play. We have Google with Chrome/Android, Apple with Mac/Ios leaving Microsoft with the great big windows Windows and the little boy no-one wants to play with, Windows Phone. (see update below) HP rocks Redmond…
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Android goes virtual • The Register
This is very interesting. Run Android on a JVM on any smartphone. I won’t bet on Java on the iPhone… Android goes virtual As of today, Myriad’s Dalvik virtual machine can run any Android application on the Maemo-based Nokia N900, with other platforms to follow soon. The idea is to get manufacturers to preinstall Alien…
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Free cloud email – Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)
An interesting announcement from Amazon which offers a free cloudy email service (my bold). Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) (beta) Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers. Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution…
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ColdFusion is a high level language; why does it capture less value?
I am a project manager and I have worked with both ColdFusion and Java development teams. I have often wondered why it is that ColdFusion developers get about 60% of the rate of the comparably skilled Java developer. ColdFusion is a high level language. The built-in features including authentication, search, clustering, image processing etc means…
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Flex London User Group (FLUG) January meeting
A review of the January FLUG Meetup at Academy Class. Great venue with great staff. Very interesting presentation on video and Nice Agency presented iWonder. This is the best executed cross-platform product I have seen for a long time. It really shows how Air can be used. I will consider using Air rather than native…
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk – free Tomcat clustering in the cloud
This came today. It is quite interesting. Scalable cloud management on Amazon. It is “free” which contrasts with other offerings. My guess is that even the most basic of cloud management offering from Amazon will do 90% of what a small app developer needs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk (beta) Easy to begin, Impossible to outgrow AWS…
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Install Railo in Tomcat – where do I put my files?
This is repost of my contribution to the Railo Google Group. Goal You are a Railo and Tomcat newbie and you want a directory to put your coldfusion files in. “tomcat\myapp\ROOT” would do nicely Preconditions (for me anyway) 64 bit Windows 7 home premium UAC turned off and stays off Java installed and JAVA_HOME set…
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Design Patterns for Spatial Information Visualisation and Analytics Applications « Information Interaction
In an earlier post I wrote that user experience is the new battleground in software. If that is the case then this post and the referenced resources are good material for fighting it. Design Patterns for Spatial Information Visualisation and Analytics Applications via Design Patterns for Spatial Information Visualisation and Analytics Applications « Information Interaction.
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Apps is the new Web: sowing the seeds for Web 3.0 | VisionMobile :: blog
Another very insightful article from VisionMobile. What I thought was very interesting was that the author sees handset manufacturers adopting web technologies as a primary way delivering apps to a non-iphone and non-Android handsets. via Apps is the new Web: sowing the seeds for Web 3.0 | VisionMobile :: blog.
Dr James Bayley
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Dr James Bayley 