Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Amazon EC2 Oversubscribed?

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 [...]

45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript Techniques

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

A list of tutorials to do some very clever things with CSS and JS. Some notables:

Advanced Event Timeline With PHP, CSS & jQuery
Sproing! – Make An Elastic Thumbnail Menu
Sticky SideNav Layout with CSS
Simply-Buttons v2
A Colorful Clock With CSS & jQuery

45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques – Smashing Magazine

Automated UI Tests: Holy Grail or Snake Oil?

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 [...]

SproutCore: HTML 5 Framework

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 [...]

Java 7: New Language Features

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Java 7 has some smaller syntactic changes that look like they’ll be helpful for your everyday dev

Mobile Metrics – Oct 2009 numbers

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 [...]

Mobile OS Market Share Updates

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 [...]

A JavaScript Optimizer

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 [...]

Envelope Budget System for Android

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 [...]

Amazon’s MySQL in the Cloud

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 [...]