This reminded me of Magic Alex who conned The Beatles into a job as the electronics director at Apple (music not computers) in the early 1970s. Some of his claimed inventions were:
“telephone that responded to its owner's voice and could identify who was calling,[10] a force field that would surround the Beatles' homes, an X-ray camera, paint that would make anything invisible, car paint that would change colour by flicking a switch, and WALLPAPER SPEAKERS,[11] which would actually be a part of the wallpaper.”
I worked in b2b publishing for a while. Magazines are just ad delivery systems so they need to sell ads. But ad buyers need to sell their product too and and their job is to buy ads. They can’t go back at the end of the year and tell their boss “look at all the money I saved by not advertising“.
I tried multiple times to setup a Google Wifi router today. Wifi would work but the app said it was offline. Perhaps I am not insane or incompetent after all
I highly recommend the Cornish Mont. At low tide the beach seems almost infinite and the island floats like a mirage. An amazing hike. Wear rubber boots.
Please don't forbid them completely. If they're still really into Minecraft it's worth looking into a few of the more popular mods. (Depending on age, there's some really good mechanics/electronics mods).
Personally I will give AppFog a try. If you're the sort of person who liked PHP Fog, the alternatives are not THAT great. Here's a good roundup from last month:
But regarding the business transition over at App Fog, you know what's really strange: Why does the 'dead simple' migration process start with creating a new account? Isn't it the same company? At the very least, if I were in charge of AppFog I wouldn't make everyone sign up again. Just saying.
Signing up for AppFog
First things first: score yourself a free AppFog account at console.appfog.com. It’s the same thing we’ve all done a million times: e-mail, password, and then e-mail verification.
I only used them for development but at least I never had to worry about the application server and the git workflow worked perfectly. Didn't use their shared database, which didn't support stored procedures etc, but it was easy to connect RDS. They came out with their own "dedicated DB" product but it was just RDS with a 100% markup and no other advantage. Not that I blame them for trying to monetize since it sounds like it they weren't making money off the basic stuff.
