A lot of companies launching their own internet services have faced the same question – where to host. Over the course of the last few months I was asked for opinion on this matter several times. While I have no definitive answer, here are some recommendations.
Don’t start with maximum capacity, start small, and think about [...]
The task is to have:
- Redmine installation on redmine.mydomain.com
- Several Git repositories on git.mydomain.com with different access rights to each one
This proved to be a non-trivial task. There is a number of tutorials on the net, but none of them described the full solution. So after getting it all to work, I decided to share [...]
Last year I got involved in the development of a new social network – Moozement. There are plenty of social networks out there, there are even white label social networks. So why create another one?
Jyri Engeström wrote some time ago about the case for object-centered sociality: “’social networking’ makes little sense if we leave out [...]
Yes, for the second time in my life. First time it was still in my university years. In those times if you had internet access at home, you were priveleged. Companies were paying quite a lot of money to get a slow 28K dial-up connection, and internet providers were charging per minute, not by gigabyte. [...]
Easter weekend didn’t start well – I decided to upgrade Joomla on one of my sites to version 1.5.1 from 1.0 and upgrade just totally ruined the entire site – content was lost, template wasn’t compatible with version 1.5.1. At first I thought that the reason is Dreamhost’s automatic one-click upgrade that I used, but [...]
The long awaited Google phone turned out to be just an OS. What does it mean for us, mobile software developers?
Personally, I think this is great news. An open mobile platform is something that was long due to stir up the world of RIM-Windows-Symbian.
Android managed to get many things right from the very beginning, [...]
Just a couple of days ago I was wondering when Nokia Internet Tablets will get an open source browser. So I was really happy to read today that a Mozilla based browser engine that shares the key components and extension interfaces with Firefox is available as a development version.
UMPC has a brief review of the [...]
Jonathan Green in his video post
Browser Comparison: iPhone vs. Nokia N95 and N800 compared performance of Nokia S60 web browser, N800 Opera browser and iPhone Safari browser.
Jonathan’s conclusion “my preference is for how Safari handles things over Opera” resonates with my own thoughts in “Opera Mobile vs. Nokia S60 browser – new browser war?“.
I’m [...]
Today, after a long court battle, breaking CSS protection in DVDs is finally made legal in Finland. Leading Finnish technology law firm “Turre Legal” was representing Mikko Rauhala, who intentionally set up website to discuss the technology of circumventing CSS protection, thus breaking new Finnish copyright law.
More on this subject in Turre Legal’s [...]
Two major questions are: – is there a platform that is interesting enough for the developers to invest their time and learn how to develop for it, so that they can sell their skills and – is there a platform that is interesting enough for the companies to monetize on the software developed for this [...]
