Technical Happenings

Sky Travel Website

Back at the start of the year my team  launched the  Sky Travel site .  Since then it has changed  a lot and has a number of roll-outs planned to the end of the year.  Its got a great design and  some excellent  JavaScript work using JQuery.  Well worth a look if your planning a trip or holiday.

It continues to be  been built using open source Java technology (Tomcat, Mysql, Apache) and uses the Spring and Hibernate frameworks. Bu has moved hosting away from Easynet and into internal Sky hosting.

Site Launch Mazda BT-50

My team have just launched a site to show off the new Mazda BT-50 . Its written in .Net 3.5 feeding in XML content from an EPiServer CMS into a Flash front end and integrated into a Sieble Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Its rolling out over a number of European countries.

Tagging the world – IPhone killer application!

Sekai Camera is the killer iPhone application, just point your camera anywhere around you to have instant feedback about whatever is on your screen. Directions, reviews, messages, offers, and any tag you can imagine will appear floating in front of you, adding a graphic overlay to the world. Using the iPhone 3G, camera and the GPS to the internet connectivity and its microphone. you can create social tags on the world. see information about places and objects around you, overlaid on the real-time video. and add your own information.

Take a look at Tonchidot – tagging the world