Weekly bean - 30/11/2012

On Friday - as usual - the regular Moresby Coffee Weekly Bean took place at Canary Wharf. Where we were talking about the IT world, news, experience, technologies.

Weekly gadget

• Eye in Sky - Nice weather forecast application for Android
• Outlook for Android - Funny :)
• New Google Docs Drive for Android - finally :)
• Dropsync - DropBox file/directory synchronization tool for Android
• Java Magazine App for Android

Weekly topic

LJC Open Conference

About this event you can read under our LJC Open Conference post.

NoSQL database

We were talking about the purpose of the NoSQL databases and the hype around them. Balazs told me, how Cassandar is being used at Hailo.

Home Media Center

Balazs had installed XMBC on an old laptop and showed how cool is that.

• XMBC
• XMBC Remote Android App
• µTorrent - Cool torrent app
• µTorrent remote Android Add

Next bean

The next Weekly bean will take place on 30th of November at 7am near Canary Wharf.

Topics for the next week:

• Habits of developers
• Neo4J demo

Weekly bean - 23/11/2012

Friday - as usual - the regular Moresby Coffee Weekly Bean took place at Canary Wharf. Where we were talking about the IT world, news, experience, technologies.

Weekly news

• Nexus 4 vs. Google - http://www.google.co.uk/nexus/4/

Weekly topic

Windows 8

We were talking about the new Windows 8 UI. I can't understand why two desktop was introduced instead of one. In the new windows it's not easy to change application, to find the application what you need. The "metro" UI is not bad on desktop, but the easily accessible application switcher is missing.

NoSQL database

Wiki

• Taxonomy
• Document Store - Eg.: MongoDB
• Key-Value Store - Eg.: Apache Cassandra
• Graph Database - Eg.: Neo4J
• Query language
• Cloud support

Groovy

I had started working with Groovy and we were talking about my experiences especially about Static vs. Dynamic typing.

Next bean

The next Weekly bean will take place on 30th of November at 7am near Canary Wharf.