Cork’s five star Fota Island Resort is the first independent hotel in Ireland to launch an iPhone application. And what’s more, they’re using a branded version of DSI’s hospitality iPhone app to lead the charge in the Irish hospitality industry. The free Fota Island Resort iPhone app is available to download here - http://bit.ly/64MOXs
Phoenix House, the 5 star luxury serviced apartments in London, officially launched their branded version of DSI’s hospitality iPhone app today.
Featuring an interactive map with local attractions, apartment information, and the latest news/twitter feeds, the ‘Phoenix House Guest Relations’ iPhone app provides a 24/7 hotel concierge to guests. Users can also explore Phoenix House and surroundings with a gallery of photos or take advantage of exclusive offers with click-to-call functionality. DSI provides an online content management application as standard with our hospitality iPhone app, giving Phoenix House full control of the content published.
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A few weeks ago a friend of mine who runs a 5 Star property of 33 luxury apartments in London’s fashionable Sloane Square asked me which is the best iPhone docking station on the market. He told me that he had received many requests from guests to have them in the rooms. After looking at a range of docking stations and what they could do for his guest I suggested he should think about an iPhone application.
After seeing how successful the DSI created “ideal a day” app is working for Avon representatives we decided to create something that would be unique in the hospitality industry. Continue reading ‘DeCare Systems Ireland’s Solution for the Hospitality Industry.’
I came to TechEd 2009 with the intention of identifying what happened with Dynamic Data since last year. For those of you who don’t know; Dynamic Data is Microsoft’s answer to Ruby on Rails. It’s a means of quickly scaffolding your application with validated text boxes, date pickers and images based on the metadata included within your data source. So a database data type of VARCHAR(50) would automatically transform into a textbox with a size limitation of fifty characters say.
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I just saw Stephen Walther deliver the session I came to TechEd to see, what’s new in the client-side scripting side for delivering Asp.Net content. I have been waiting to find out how the Asp.Net team hoped to integrate jQuery into Asp.Net for some time. Like a lot of you, I’ve come to the conclusion the only smart way to deliver data-heavy pages is via client-side scripting. The trick is to confine bandwidth only to readily consumed data as much as possible, as the large amount of mark-up associated with a normal ASP.NET page is often just bloat.
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Devastatingly smart Rafal Lukawiecki, that virtuoso of technical presentation, gave yet another brilliant presentation on how the seemingly “ivory tower” techniques of Artificial Intelligence can be used in present day applications for unusual data validation scenarios.
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I’m just not feelin’ the Microsoft love here any more.
I’m a Developer and I think Microsoft may have short-changed us developers a bit this year. They’ve rolled the IT Professional part of TechEd into the same week as the developerment section.
As a result, no more than two sessions per time-slot hold any interest for me as a general developer. Of those two, my preferred choice is nearly always full to capacity. Which means you have to turn up at least ten minutes early. This is a wildly less groovy than last year. I had a much less tame rant prepared, but wisely I refrained from venting :-).
Also, because the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) is on next week in the US, some of the more senior Microsoft presenters are understandably holding off coming here to TechEd (in balmy Berlin). Lesson learned, next year I’ll move heaven and earth to go to PDC instead 
It’s been a year since we first launched the very first edition of the CPM Toolkit into the Java world. We had spent many months developing the Toolkit and were already using it for managing and measuring application performance during the development life cycle for our clients with great success.
One year after launching the CPM Toolkit we have learned some hard lessons.
The weather hasn’t been that great in San Francisco. The locals whom I talked to told me that it hadn’t been good recently. Unfortunately the weather forecasts don’t look promising either. Well… It’s not like we’re going to have outdoor sessions, anyway…
The second day of JavaOne 2009 started as usual. I, just like a few thousand other fellow Java developers, took my place in the General Hall for the morning key note speech. This general session was entitled “Being Unique With Sony Ericsson” and as the title suggests, it was the Sony Ericsson session.
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