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Before you choose to go ahead and spend your hard earned cash on the truly feature unique and latest, greatest Apple Gizmo, the iPhone 4G, you may want to check out the new Telegraph article detailing 10 reasons why Apple’s new toy is not all what it’s cracked up to be.
To cut a long story short, The Telegraph believes customers will get more bang for the buck opting for the latest Blackberry or Android handset. They have even gone so far as saying the iPhone 4G “is not even cool any more”!
Let’s take a peep and see what was uncovered to brand the phone “uncool”:
1) It’s expensive: Buy the top-of-the-range Blackberry or Android handset and you will still pay a lot less than the extortionate prices Apple charge. If the iPhone weren’t made by Apple, networks would have had to start giving it away on £30 a month tariffs years ago.
2) It’s anti-technology: When the iPhone launched it was cutting edge – now as other manufacturers announce, for instance, that you can use their phones as a Mi-Fi (Mobile Wi-Fi) hot spots, Apple says no. Not because of some spurious “user experience” argument, but because of economics. When will they learn that its customers – supply and demand – that should dictate feature availability?
3) No Flash: The iPhone, the phone that promised to put the web into everybody’s pockets, can’t even show you most of it, because it can’t handle Flash graphics. Google Android can, in the latest version (OS 2.2), and it’s going to be available free on a lot of budget tariffs.
4) No multitasking: Tried instant messaging on an iPhone? Oh yes, you have to open the app to see if you’ve got a message. Genius. Apple have announced multitasking in the next release of its fabled mobile operating system, how well it works will be another matter, either way you look at it, anything will be an improvement – but there’ll be no apology for the way it’s treated customers in the past, and no guarantee it won’t behave similarly shoddily in the future.
5) Its battery life is terrible: This isn’t a problem unique to Apple, but look at phones by companies such as HTC – multitasking, better cameras, better screens, all draining their batteries far more – and yet the iPhone, with its undemanding technology, still only offers equal performance.
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May 10
12
To Xen or to VMWare?
Good afternoon guys,
I am in a bit of a quandry of which i am asking for community assistance. ( first time for everything 
)
I am in the process of evaluating both VMWare ESXi Server and Citrix XenServer Express Edition for a virtual server project which i am currently working on. While the details of the project need to be kept quiet, the bare metal system setup information will be freely available for anyone wishing to evalute these products themselves.
Originally when i started down this path i was looking at the enterprise solutions as well as the opensource solutions for a hypervisor server setup. After speaking to many people who use the system on a regular basis for commercial use i was advised that there are perfectly capable free alternatives out there to the high end commercial solutions.
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May 10
11
CVS / SVN / GIT Choices Choices
Hi Guys,
After working with SVN for a few years i decided to look at alternatives to enable more international collaboration of the projects which i am working on.
As part of the systems i reviewed for my requirements as to what i need, and why i needed it.
During this process i looked at CVS, SVN and GIT, each system has its own pro’s and con’s which could either cause the entire project to fall down around my ears or provide a stable base for us to build a world class project on top of.
May 10
11
Working with multiple environments
Hi Guys,
I have been recently been working on a few complex web development projects which mainly require me to use multiple environments within the development cycle, mainly these are: Development, Staging, Live.
While it wouldn’t be too difficult to manually set an environment variable this caused its own problems in the long run and across multiple developers who are working on the same project within the same development box.
While i was working on one of the project i setup my local development environment and i decided to use a non-web accessible domain name using my local hosts file to bypass my ISP’s and any local DNS setup.
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Hi Guys,
I’ve been thinking and I want this blog to be a useful repository of my ramblings and experiences so that others can make use of them.
Primarily this post was originally going to be for my own use, but I think that the community at large will be able to benefit from it.
There will be an update to this at some point in time as the installation that I have here is far from perfect but it will give you a good starting block on how to get Railo up and running quickly and efficiently.
Step 1: – Gather all the required elements to make this work.
- This blog post for instructions (Duh!)
- You will need Java JDK (Java development toolkit) ( will be referred to simply as JDK ) – The JRE Installation on its own is unfortunately not sufficient enough to be able to run railo. – The latest version available will be suitable to run Resin and Railo ( At the time of writing the latest version was 1.6.0 U19 ) Please Note: You will need to download your platform dependant version of jdk.
- You will need a copy of Caucho Resin ( http://www.caucho.com/download/resin-3.1.10.tar.gz ) – For this installation i selected Resin 3.1.10 ( latest )
- You will need a copy of Railo ( http://www.getrailo.org/down.cfm?item=/railo/remote/download/3.1.2.001/custom/all/railo-3.1.2.001-jars.tar.gz ) – The version that has been selected for this installation is Railo 3.1.2 ( latest )
The above components are listed as they are what i have used on my installation.