xiion Blog

Spatial Solution Stacks

Written by Daniel O'Connor

Tuesday, 05 April 2011 17:40

It seems that having mapping capabilities as part of solution offerings these days is getting more and more prevelent and commonplace. So what options do we have to use Maps in our solutions?

Basically we have Free, Sort of Free, and Commercial.

Lets look at the Sort of Free ones first. In this category our main contenders are:

Silverlight 5 Announced

Written by David Salt

Monday, 06 December 2010 09:50

With the lack of Silverlight content at the recent the PDC11 event and the looming invasion of HTML 5 the future of Silverlight seemed to be uncertain. However Microsoft has yet again confirmed its ongoing commitment to the technology during the Silverlight Firestarter 2010 live web cast held on the 2nd of December by announcing Silverlight 5

Cloud computing - pie in the sky or a silver lining?

Written by David Salt

Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:16

Could computing simply put is the delivery of hosted services via the internet sold to consumers on demand. In a lot of respects it is similar by nature to an electricity grid where by the services are sold in accordance to the amount of usage e.g. number of hours, connections or data transfer.