Financial Times Deactivating iOS Apps

Financial Times

So, I read today that the Financial Times is deactivating their iOS apps over the next few weeks.   Some time ago FT.com built their HTML5 version of their site and have decided that they no longer need to support their iOS apps.

HTML5 version of FT.com

Personally, I find this very interesting.  I work for a news organization [not to be mentioned] and at this very moment I am anxiously awaiting Apple’s approval to release our latest iPad app with a deadline for being the App Store that I don’t think we are going to make.  When I read the story above I realized that despite having over a dozen news apps installed on various devices, I only really use one Zite - which I think rocks. Continue reading →

USB Cords and Other Stuff of Interest…

AViiQ USB Cords

I have been trying to connect this blog to my Evernote account, so I could get my ‘interesting’ links posted here automatically, but after a week or so of tries I am giving up.

In other news, I attended the AWS Summit 2012 NYC yesterday and it was pretty interesting, although seemed a little heavy on the sales pitch.  I am hoping that the presentations will eventually be on the web, since I would like to view a couple that I attended over again and view a couple that I missed.  I was constantly distracted by issues at work throughout the day, which was a little annoying. Probably more on this later, after I digest what I saw.

In the meantime, here are a couple of links for today.

Interesting Posts – February 10, 2012

A few items I found today..

Pinterest – Everyone is trying to be on Pinerest

Pinterest

Pinterest, Pinterest, Pinterest – that is all I have been hearing about all week.  I have to admit that I am curious – one of the sites I work with has just set up a page and I have submitted my request for an invitation [still waiting].  I am hoping that this will not be an over-hyped social farce.  Then again, I am also think Facebook is an over-hyped social farce – so take this with a grain of salt.

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Need to Start Trying

Durham, NC

I really need to start regularly blogging.  There are a whole bunch of topics I would like to touch on in the next few weeks.  Most of which are associated with potential projects including migrating to Drupal, using NGINX in a production environment, Percona DB migration and web site layouts [there are a few that I have very strong opinions on and where design is going in general].

I hope to start working small and getting more and more into the writing, but there are the day to day tasks that always get in the way.  I may throw a picture or two in when I feel like it – but that may be rare.