Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Here is a post that reports that all is not happy for some with their heads in the clouds.
Is Amazon EC2 Oversubscribed and Suffering from Internal Network Latency?
I am not directly involved with this, but figured I’d raise it in the blog.
There have been various reports from the community of Amazon EC2 users, that [...]
Tags: amazon ec2, cloud, cloud computing, cloud hosting
Posted in Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Web Strategy, Website Hosting | No Comments »
Monday, January 4th, 2010
I think the title of this article says it all.
UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil
Michael Feathers, the author, is very solid.
It’s a very familiar ‘rabbit hole’ in the industry. … Personally, I think that in this day and age selling them [UI testing tools] is irresponsible. Developing them open-source? Well, let your [...]
Tags: quality assurance, testing, UI Testing
Posted in Frameworks, Process | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
I was looking to see if there were any frameworks for HTML 5 and came across SproutCore. It’s an MVC framework and has some similarity to GWT in that it compiles all the code into HTML/JS/CSS that should work across browsers without plug-ins. Also like GWT, it has a bunch of panels, buttons, and controls [...]
Tags: framework, html5
Posted in Android Development, HTML & CSS, JavaScript, Mobile | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Java 7 has some smaller syntactic changes that look like they’ll be helpful for your everyday dev
Tags: java 7
Posted in Java | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
AdMob’s October 2009 mobile metrics report is out, and it’s clear that the Droid may be a serious contender to the iPhone. Just two weeks after its launch, the Droid accounts for 24% of Android requests.
It should be noted that AdMob measures requests to its advertising delivery system from applications and mobile websites. These numbers [...]
Tags: android, iphone, market share, statistics
Posted in Android Development, Mobile | No Comments »
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Gartner released a report last Thursday, November 12, which showed some market share movements in the mobile OS space. iPhone and RIM gained market share, while Symbian and Windows Mobile lost share. Android has gone from 0 to almost 4% of market share. This is in line with Gartner’s prediction that by 2012, Android will [...]
Tags: android, market share, statistics
Posted in Android Development, Mobile, Web Strategy | No Comments »
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
I’ve been learning about Clojure over the last month or two, which is a dialect of the Lisp programming language that compiles to the JVM. That has nothing to do with this blog except that it led to finding Google’s Closure Tools.
Closure Tools include a JavaScript Optimizer, a comprehensive JavaScript library, and an easy templating [...]
Tags: closure, optimization
Posted in JavaScript | No Comments »
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
We’re happy to announce that we just launched our first Android™ application! Meet EEBA, the Easy Envelope Budget Aid.

Android’s been all the rage recently with every major carrier making announcements about Android phones and Gartner predicting that by 2012 Android will overtake iPhone. Its open source nature makes it a [...]
Tags: android, eeba, envelope budgeting, envelope method
Posted in Android Development, Dayspring Announcements, Easy Envelope Budget Aid, Mobile, Products | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
In the next installment in its series of cloud computing infrastructure offerings, Amazon announced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a cloud version of the popular MySQL database. Following the popular “pay-per-drink” model of EC2 and S3 for selling compute, storage and database access, Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL database that you can spin [...]
Tags: amazon web services, cloud computing, mysql
Posted in Databases, Website Hosting | No Comments »