Mark Edgington

Category: technology

  • WD TV HD Media Player

    Ive been considering the Apple TV, PS3 and a number of other media center devices, but for now i have brought the WD TV one.  I do not really need a games machine and the Apple TV does not play all the formats i wanted.  Also this costs less than £70.  What i liked about…

  • Cloud Computing – Why is it so good for business?

    From a financial perspective, Cloud Computing pushes risks onto the people that own the assets.  The business in effect rent a particular set of assets, based on their usage. For the business this  transforms IT capex into opex. From a development perspective, Cloud Computing  enables you to potentially roll out your solution in minutes or…

  • Webfaction Review

    Having been with Webfaction for over a year i think it’s about time i said how good they are.  The plans are all very reasonable and have a very rich feature from static HTML, PHP and CGI to Rails, Django, Turbogears and Plone, these plans let you run any software you want. You can even…

  • developers christmas wishlist

    Just the coffee cup and a few more and  i will have the whole of the developers Christmas wish list.

  • Oracle and Enterprise 2.0

    I recently attended an Oracle seminar entitled Enterprise 2.0, I went looking to understand the direction a company such as Oracle was pursuing in this space.  However, i found the whole experience lacking.  What was wrong was the ever tenuous web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 link, which never worked, as the argument was never formed. The…

  • Amazon CloudFront – Replacing the content database

    Amazon launch of Cloudfront, a tightly integrated content delivery service built over their S3 offering promises content delivery routed to the nearest edge location, giving optimal performance to the content user. This extension to S3 should get the content management system (CMS) providers and companies such as Akamai thinking. The service will allow the database…

  • ASUS Eee PC 900 BF001 Netbook, Linux Preloaded, 1GB RAM

    I recently got this netbook as a replacement for my Nokia N810; the new version of the Nokia comes out next year, so i wanted to get the best price for it now. I’ve had the Eee for a week now and must say that i’ve found it to be better than expected. It’s main…

  • 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…

  • 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…