Web site update: a venerable old site retires

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Jan 182016
 
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There is an old adage about the cobbler’s children being last to get new shoes. So it goes for a technology company’s web site. ICAL’s previous web site was originally built in 2000. It was not a bad design. It did weather well, but it was paleolithic in technology terms.

We have always approached our clients. Rarely have people approached us, so we treated our web site like an online brochure. The old site covered the basics of who we are and how we work. The technology we use changes constantly, but those basics don’t. Continue reading »

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Working remotely: bring the world to you

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Jan 072016
 
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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 celebrates 15yrs in the cloud!

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Jan 042016
 
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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 »