jamesbrady

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by jamesbrady 15y ago
Thanks Andy - yep, we're constantly balancing two desires: the desire to expose every last shiny detail of the native platform on one hand, and the desire for consistency across platforms on the other. The list of amazing, engaging, good-lo
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by jamesbrady 15y ago
Interesting... what sort of thing are you thinking of: the ability to easily manage subscriptions from within an app, or view content, all of the above?
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by jamesbrady 15y ago
Awesome, sounds like a great match: Sign up and give us a try! Most of us develop on Linux, so our support there is pretty mature.
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by jamesbrady 15y ago
PhoneGap's a good product, and definitely has its place. However, we've heard from lots of people (some of whom we now value as customers) that for apps which don't need bespoke native functionality it can be too heavy-weight: this affects
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by jamesbrady 18y ago
That's interesting, I stand corrected - it is interesting how the trend has cycled between centralised and distributed compute resources over the decades, and IBM's been on the ride the whole time. btw, when are you leaving Hursley ? ;-)
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by jamesbrady 18y ago
Yes, of all of those guys, I think Microsoft are most likely next to act, as it would also be the perfect opportunity for them to offer any cloud-based Office products they may or may not be developing :)
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by jamesbrady 18y ago
Great question, I might well write another post about this because it's a really interesting problem. The software and services that we looked at to address this problem all left us pretty lukewarm. We needed distributed configuration and r
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by jamesbrady 18y ago
My view is that you probably won't see the HP/IBM/... companies enter this market as it's already commoditised (even though there's only really one player): they prefer to focus on high value, high margin products and services. Sun is the o
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by jamesbrady 18y ago
Obviously, it was a slightly tongue in cheek comment.. However, I would point out that WebMynd IS doing personalised search (totally personalised, in fact). As you point out, updating search indices every time a user visits a page is diffic
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by jamesbrady 18y ago
It surprises me that Google gave up so easily! This is a pretty similar service to what WebMynd provides - we're handling ~2.5m pages per day and although scaling is difficult, it's doable. We out-engineered Google!!