I had a client call me yesterday; he’d built a BREW application (most of the code provided by Airsource) on one machine, and it wouldn’t run on another. It ran on all of our machines, so this was a bit difficult for us to debug, until eventually we tried it on a pretty much vanilla VMWare partition – and it wouldn’t start. “Unable to start application” chirped the simulator, leaving us none the wiser.
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Well if that hasn’t caught your attention I don’t know what will!

Having worked in the wireless industry since University (almost 10 years now), I’m no stranger to attending conferences. They’re a great way to meet potential customers, to gasbag with old acquaintances and to take the pulse of the entire industry.
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Being a small company just starting to get our feet off the ground, we (or rather, I) have to do all of our own IT management.

Amusingly, after I completed my degree at University I had to think long and hard about whether to go into Software or into IT. It was quite a hard decision – fortunately a wise gentleman who I was working with suggested that Software was definitely the place to be. I took his advice but I keep coming back to IT. But anyway, I digress.

Being a bit of a boffin, I like our IT system to be polished. So much so that even though we are small I have been working to set up a PPTP based VPN system to serve us when we are out and about. It’s pretty straightforward; a Debian Linux box running pptpd (PoPToP) behind an ADSL firewall. (more…)

A fascinating Mobile Monday on Feb 5th was hosted by the BBC at their White City headquarters in London. It’s a huge glass and steel testament to the effectiveness of one of the UK’s best known and best loved exports – part fancy office block and part uber-new media mecca. (more…)