Many years ago my father used to complain about powered car windows. They were ‘more crap to break.’ Go to a junkyard today and you can still roll down the windows in a car built in 1955. Now, you can’t even buy a car with window cranks. That’s fine until the switch breaks, the motor burns out or you’re trapped under water in an accident. It’s interesting to even unlock some cars with a dead battery. Continue reading »
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 »
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 »