Tag: cloud
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Microsoft OneDrive is better than Google Docs
I needed to share an Excel document so I investigated Microsoft OneDrive. Microsoft is late to the file syncing party Dropbox and Google Docs having got well ahead. I’ve used Dropbox a lot, because it just works; it is really effective and painless way of sharing files quickly. This is their core business and they…
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Nano, an alternative to vi to edit Linux configuration files
My journey into administering Linux from a Windows PC continues. Today’s challenge is to edit configuration files such as .htaccess. There are several options; If you have installed Webmin you can use the nice graphical UI over ssh. You can use WinSCP over ssh to edit locally on your PC using Notepad and then synchronise…
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Accessing Webmin as http://localhost:10000 through an ssh tunnel
If you have an EC2 server it is great to install Webmin on it but it undesirable to expose it through the EC2 firewall. An easier and more secure way to access it is using PuTTY to create a tunnel from a local port to a remote port. When you have done this you can…
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How to survive Windows 8. The official guide
The Reg. has published “How to survive Windows 8. The official guide” It is funny and informative. I loved this comment. Re: Windows 8 promises to be a disaster in offices. But what if your workers need to operate in a modern multi-media cloud enabled social web interactive multi-paradigm environment?
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Amazon CloudSearch for your company’s data
The remorseless march of Amazon continues… Announcing Amazon CloudSearchWe are pleased to announce the launch of Amazon CloudSearch, a fully-managed search service in the cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale search applications. Amazon CloudSearch enables customers to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a search service. Customers don’t…
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Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications – All Things Distributed
I am interested in Amazon’s new NoSQL database DynamoDB. We develop Android applications and a core requirement is scalable session management. This seems to be a primary use of DynamoDB. Dynamo was born out of our need for a highly reliable, ultra-scalable key/value database. This non-relational, or NoSQL, database was targeted at use cases that…
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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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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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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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Singing Opera’s praises; more clicks than Google
Since as a child I saw the Daily Mail headline: “Passengers hit by cancelled trains”, I have had a closet desire to be a sub-editor. Now at last as the publisher of my own blog I have that privilege so I hope you like this post title… Back to business. The title of this blog…
Dr James Bayley 