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Subversion and branching strategies

April 27, 2011

What is Subversion Subversion is an open source application used for revision control. It is sometimes abbreviated to SVN in reference to the name of its command line interface. Subversion boasts many advanced features, such as atomic commits, versioned directories, and good support for binary file formats, fast branching and tagging. The open source Apache [...]

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Web Oriented Architecture – a battle with the dark side?

February 1, 2011

This is a talk i gave to the IET 2009. You need to view the full post to see the slides. Web Oriented Architecture – a battle with the dark side? View more presentations from markedgington.

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Mobile Statistics From 2010

November 20, 2010

We all know that mobile is big business, so I thought I would jot down a few of the statistics and information that I have picked up through the later months of 2010: NOMOBS: Normal mobile users I.e. not a Smartphone (although I’ve only seen this used once, but I quite liked it) 75 % [...]

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Is Social Networking really social?

May 11, 2010

Here are a few thoughts on social networking (mainly directed at Facebook). The Issues: Collecting friends becomes a habit The collection can become little more than an online status symbol If this happens are these people really your friends? You just opened up your world and made it ‘ privacy invasive’, you’d likely never dream [...]

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Why are Web Applications Superior to their Desktop counterparts?

December 15, 2009

No need for an install or to ship updates The application lives in the cloud and is centrally managed, when you launch the application you will always have the latest version. This leads to a single point for updates and fixes with the user receiving the updated version the next time they use the application. [...]

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What is a QR Code?

December 10, 2009

A QR Code is a two-dimensional bar-code and the name “QR” is derived from “Quick Response”, as its Japanese creator intended the code  to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes have been very common in Japan, this popularity due to the fact that the majority of  Japanese mobiles can read this code with their camera. QR Codes can [...]

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2 Billion applications downloaded from 40 million Iphones

December 5, 2009

While iPhone is only about 3% of the handset penetration it is responsible for a huge amounts of activity 1.3B Internet users 1.8B Fixed line telephones 2.9B Mobile Phones 4B Mobile users But out of  4B mobile users there are only 40M iPhones (inc about 20M iPod touch). Howver these 40M  have downloaded 2B apps [...]

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Hash key on a mac keyboard osx

October 10, 2009

Having trouble finding the hash key on your Mac keyboard? hold the Alt key down and then press the number 3.

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