August 2011
2 posts
The chronicle of an IT tragedy
Preamble: I’m working at Spreaker, an innovative startup about live streaming and podcasting based in Italy. Spreaker is widely deployed on the Amazon Cloud Computing infrastructure, we use different services, including EC2, S3, EBS.
Now, imagine an almost perfect summer sunday evening. Chillin’out with friends, drinking a cold beer, everything seems so good.
Wait, something starts...
An iOS Developer Takes on Android
nfarina:
Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps.
We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android.
We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to respect each platform’s conventions as much as possible. Some conventions are easy to...