Mika Leuck's Blog (10)

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Last year most of the organizations we work with moved to EC2 or Heroku for their web applications and 100% of those people are happier than they were with their dusty old server room. People always think hosting on-site will be cheaper and safer, but its almost always neither when you take into account labor, hardware failures and stress. Google and Amazon are better at this than you…

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From UH Alumni News via Keiki-Pua Dancil





Senator Inouye video address to the University of Hawai'i Education Summit from University of Hawai'i System on Vimeo.…



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Posted on behalf of Leigh-Ann Miyasato of Entrepreneurs Foundation of Hawai`i:



As you know, the devastation from a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti and multiple aftershocks of up to 6.0 in magnitude have left an already impoverished country reeling and in chaos.



Last week, the Austin Entrepreneurs Foundation launched a $600,000 Haiti Relief Fund to match donations from the EF network worldwide. Hawai`i… Continue

I've always liked UNESCO's homepages such as http://whc.unesco.org. One of my hobbies is traveling. I often check

UNESCO's world heritage site before I go traveling to foreign countries. Now

the World Digital Library is online! We don't need to visit the libraries in… Continue

Posted on behalf of HVCA President Bill Spencer



On January 21, 2009, at 7:00AM, the Hawaii State Legislature will begin its 2009 term. If you care about keeping Act 221 intact and extending it into the future, you must be present and show your support.



The EXTEND221.ORG group will assemble at the capital at 7:00AM on the morning of January… Continue

Yesterday Softbank Mobile announced that they will start iPhone service in Japan this year. With 18 million customers, Softbank is the third largest carrier in the country after Docomo and KDDI. The Japanese iPhone will be the 3G (WCMDA) version. A lot of people speculated that Docomo would be the carrier for iPhone, but Docomo simply thought Apple was asking for too much in the revenue share agreement. Apple has been playing Docomo and Softbank off… Continue

Note: Sam is actually our featured techie from last month. To maintain a history we will be adding featured techie profiles to the blog as well as having a column on the front page.

Sam Joseph

Sam programmed in Java for 10 years, but recently switched to Ruby as his language of choice. He is the lead developer on the Prometheus… Continue