For techies old enough to remember, remote computing is definitely not a new thing. Back when we were riding dinosaurs and coding programs with stone knives, there were ways to connect to your work computer remotely. Some of us wrote entire programs that way. Continue reading »
ICAL has spent 15 years in the cloud. Yes, we know, we don’t need to state the obvious, but seriously, we have been developing and later hosting remote applications for 15 years. When we started building remote applications, they weren’t even called cloud services. We just thought of them as remote programs, just like the network applications we had been building for years. Continue reading »
As of January 12, 2016, Microsoft will no longer support bug fixes for Internet Explorer versions older than Version 11. This means that any computer going out on the web with an older browser version is vulnerable to hacking exploits identified after that date. Continue reading »
No, we are not kidding. The applications we develop can now optionally have a heartbeat. This isn’t some new age hippie zen thing to get in touch with your program. Our programs don’t really have a heart. ‘Heartbeat,’ in this case, means programs that we write can now be setup to regularly send out a signal to show that they are still running properly. Continue reading »
Much like a flea market, the web is filled with a multitude of fascinating distractions. It is very easy to get sidetracked. What begins as a quick to moderate task can take hours. The web itself actually works against your ability to get things done both on purpose and accidentally. Continue reading »