How to build stunning custom iOS graphs on iPhone and iPad
A couple of weeks ago, we released a big update to our iOS server monitoring app app, adding graph support on both iPhone + iPad. It’s an update that we’ve [...]
To pull or not to pull – when to use refresh
One of the internal discussions we had with our new iOS app was whether to use the classic pull to refresh action on our list views. These list views are [...]
Native to web iOS apps, or there and back again
This is an interesting tale of startups, resource allocation, the allure of write once/deploy anywhere and the reality that native is always better if you want a properly native looking [...]
Server Density for iOS updated
Apple has approved our completely revamped iOS app for Server Density server monitoring and it is now available free on the App Store! The app has been rewritten from scratch [...]
Sysadmins prefer e-mail alerts and use iPhone more than Android
The recent Amazon EBS outage has resulted in some good analysis about EBS in general and also the design of shared storage services. Our friends are PagerDuty also did a [...]
How telephone numbers broke our graphs
With the release of Apple’s iPad, we found ourselves with a new group of users accessing the web version of Server Density, our server monitoring service. With those users came [...]
Using a Cisco IPSec VPN on your iPhone / OS X 10.6
We’re in the process of deploying a new set of servers behind a new firewall. The servers can only be accessed via our IPSec VPN provided through the Cisco hardware [...]
Essential sysadmin iPhone apps
We have previously looked at Android vs iPhone as a mobile operating system for sysadmins but the OS is only the platform for the apps which perform the functions you [...]
Android vs iPhone for sysadmins
I have had an iPhone since February 2008, both with the original device and the 3G – I have not upgraded to the 3GS. During this time there have been [...]
Now with graphs – server monitoring iPhone application
Now available on the iTunes App Store: the Server Density server monitoring iPhone application with graphs! Simply rotate your device when viewing the stats to display the graphs for that [...]