Here is an interesting video about the new google ‘backend’ concept on the google app engine cloud computing platform. Google says that these new backend instances will allow GAE software developers to perform more heavyweight computation tasks on the Google Cloud – something that up to now has been very difficult (sometimes impossible) to […]
Cully & Sully’s Cheffactor eMarketing campaign and competition website has been nominated for an award in the eMarketing section of the All Ireland Marketing Awards. We are proud to have worked on the software and development of the drupal cheffactor site with our good buddies Pride Design, the eMarketing campaign featured tight integration with facebook […]
To coincide with Google I/O, Google has released the latest version of their cloud computing platform – Google App Engine 1.5.0, more details can be found here. There seem to be quite a few interesting additions and changes to the platform especially for those software developers that are involved in doing more heavyweight computing […]
The Cork Opera House has recently launched its brand-spanking-new website – www.corkoperahouse.ie It was designed and developed by our web design partners at Pride Design in Cork, we had a great time helping them to build this website which contains loads of multi-media content with facebook and twitter integration. Once again we worked closely […]
Google has released a new version its App Engine Software platform, the register writes about it here. Of great interest to us is that the Blob Store API has been upgraded allow programmers to fully interact with blobs, previously data could only be written to a blob in the blobstore via a HTTP post, […]
This one catches me out time after time and I always forget how to get around it – so I am writing it down this time. Developing software to run well on multiple browsers is actually not that difficult until, that is, good old IE is thrown into the mix! ;-) The problem is […]
Our favourite Content Management System – Drupal is moving over from CVS to Git today, meanwhile drupal.org will be down for 12 hours… More and more people seem to be completely side-stepping subversion and moving straight to Git, is subversion yesterday’s news? I do like subversion and think it’s an excellent Software Version […]
I found this nice example of using the Expect Shell to automate an SSH connection providing username and password: http://bash.cyberciti.biz/security/expect-ssh-login-script/ When automating SSH connections it would be better to have authentication keys setup to avoid the necessity of passing a password to a script, but this is not always possible and in these […]
Micheál Martin’s recent rather amusing gaffe has left people in a lot of different emotional states ranging from the wringing of hands emotional state to the back-of-clasroom giggling emotional state – but what nobody seems to have taken from his statement is that it’s actually 100% correct: We Irish _are_ very good at software! […]
Most Software Development houses need to roll up their sleeves every now and again and get stuck into some honest to goodness IT setup – somtimes for themselves and sometimes for their clients. With cloud services maturing there are more options than ever for rolling out capable and cost effective IT infrastructure. This […]