AWS Outage Cheat Sheet

So much to share, so little time

So I’ve been working on experience innovation, emerging technologies, R&D, and a bunch of amazing fortune 500 clients. Among the new things I will start sharing tons of new Amazon hosting tips and tricks, performance, scaling, benchmarking multiple caching solutions, big data and nosql, rapid mobile application development … Which tech would you like me to share first?

iPhone 5 has a laser keyboard and holographic projection, says Fox

Amazingly funny - someone at Fox 5 either has no idea about current technology and what a smartphone is capable of, or this was a joke that made it on to live television and the repercussions are now being felt. As part of their NYC coverage segment, they used some over-a-year-old futuristic iPhone 5 concepts that showed it with lasers and holographic projection capabilities.

London Underground: NFC mobile payments ’too slow’ for the tube

NFC Mobile Payments has been tested several times in the past, London’s Tube system won’t be getting mobile-based payment technology any time soon. Customer Experience Director Shashi Verma said that existing NFC technology wasn’t able to drop below the 500 millisecond barrier – something which Transport for London demands from its high-churn Oyster card-based turnstiles. Verma added, “The concerns are only around NFC technology and not EMV. We are keen to see any progress the industry can make in this area.

WordPress Hacked: Spam BackLinks

As you may recall, I switched my WordPress theme two months ago , and installed a new theme called PixelPower. If you read my previous post, I had disabled W3 Total Cache Minify and replaced with Better WordPress Minify. So after successfully implementing the W3 Total Cache minify on another blog I decided to give mine a second chance; the problem I found was that it takes a few seconds for W3TC to write it to disk, and my Amazon CloudFront gets a 404 the first time it tries to hit it … After a second attempt it seems to be working fine.

Microsoft Surface Presentation Epic Fail

This must be the week for the new Microsoft Surface ; I explained yesterday the marvelous new design , and today I just found this new piece of gold. While demo’ing the new Surface, the entire OS froze completely on the presenter - he was showing the new Internet Explorer, which should serve as a hint: please discontinue IE, please!

On a positive note, the presenter actually handled it pretty well - it’s not easy to keep going in these situations.