Josef Nankivell - Student, geek, persistent polemicist

It hasn’t been long since Google officially announced Google Android 2.2 Froyo. If you want to get your hands on some delicious frozen yogurt early then here is a ten step guide on how to do so!

The Google IO 2010 keynote has just ended and what a wonderful few hours it has been. Despite a few bluetooth issues everything ran very smoothly indeed (at least they weren’t bluescreen issues!). The keynote was packed full of shiny, new and very exciting features and products, some of which were as follows:

This report looks at what distributed software development is, the risks associated with it and the issues with managing the risks in distributed software development projects.

In this section of report, a TCP SYN Flood attack and the methods used in order to discover it are discussed. This is followed by recommendations on how to reduce the likelihood of a successful SYN Flood attack against a network.

Cloud computing is a relatively new concept that is becoming popular within corporate environments. As the concept spread the industry has now embraced two types of cloud computing: public and private. This report compares the performance and cost of private and public cloud computing.

In this report the energy efficiency of both new and existing data centres are discussed. The nature of data centre energy consumption is reviewed, business and market impacts are analysed and best practices are suggested that can significantly impact operational efficiencies.

The final year project computing fair will allow students to showcase their project work on a range of topics, by means of display posters and live demonstrations. From software development to computer graphics, and communication technologies to future interactive interfaces, this event provides a unique opportunity to see some of the innovative research projects produced by University of Plymouth students.

During the last few sprints the aim has been to develop the code for the system. However, there was a code freeze for sometime to fix some engineering-related issues. Testing, for Sprint 0 had to be done so the database could be installed. After the engineering bugs were fixed, the beginning of the database and code development process ran to schedule.

I’m finding the whole Google Buzz thing very interesting indeed. People are tending to presume that it has been created to compete against (and “kill”) Twitter and Facebook, but I believe that it is a very different animal altogether.

My notes from lecture 3 of ISAD337 – Professional practice and social responsibility.