Nine Business Lessons of 2009
Wednesday, January 06, 2010, Steven Talcott Smith
The Future of Mobile Apps – Third Phase of the Information Age?
Friday, December 11, 2009, Steven Talcott Smith
State of the Art Cross-Platform Mobile Development — Enterprise Ready?
Sunday, July 26, 2009, Steven Talcott Smith
Software development for mobile devices is a bewildering space undergoing rapid change. Several projects are attempting to deliver open source, cross-platform mobile development frameworks. The must-support platform is of course Apple’s iPhone. However, there are gotchas.
Build Your Own Botnet with EC2 and Capistrano to Load Test Your Server Cluster before Launch
Tuesday, July 21, 2009, Steven Talcott Smith
Different types of web applications scale differently. When load testing is required, tools like JMeter may come in handy but when special needs arise, a hand-rolled load testing harness using Amazon’s EC2 might be just what you need to stay out of trouble.
Flex and Rails – Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together
Thursday, May 14, 2009, Steven Talcott Smith
Adobe Flex provides a rich set of User Interface components built on top of the ubiquitous Flash player. Ruby on Rails provides a powerful and productive back-end programming environment for interacting with databases and web services in the cloud. These two technologies together provide a compelling platform…
