Component Workshop Ltd

We've just submitted a new version of our Push Email app that supports the monitoring of AOL Mail accounts. This version of the app is called AOLMail, and should be available in a few weeks. It includes all of the enhancements that we've made to GPhushed (and that are currently awaiting Apple's approval), such as Do Not Disturb settings.

This article contains a brief discussion of the issues and a C# example that you can use to convert Word documents to HTML or PDF on the fly in your applications.

A couple of weeks ago, our first iPhone app went live. It's called Gphushed, and it notifies you, through the magic of Apple Push Notifications, the instant an email arrives in your Google Mail inbox. The app consists of two parts - an iPhone app that you buy that you use to configure the service, and a server, that watches your inbox and sends notifications to Apple when your email arrives.

We wrote the server in Ruby initially. This allowed us to get up and running really fast, but it came back to bite us a little bit. In this article I'll share our experience, because it might be interesting to people out there who are thinking about going down a similar path.

We have aquired Jruby.com, and we intend to make it a useful resource for people who are interested in enterprise Ruby on Rails development. I'll explain some of our ideas here, so you can have some inkling of what to expect. We are open to any and all feedback.

Component Workshop, 1st September 2009

Today Apple have accepted Component Workshop’s first app in to the iTunes App Store. gPhushed is a small utility that enables users of the popular gMail service to recieve instant notifications when a message has arrived.

Recieving notifications rather than setting your iPhone or iPod touch to automatically check, increases battery life and enables you to keep up to date with your gMail account.

Component Workshop have build a scalable Push Notification layer on top of the Amazon EC2 platform and with this near limitless capacity to scale, we will soon be releasing a series of other Push Service for the iPhone and iPod touch platforms.

For more information about gPhushed, our Notification Platform or our bespoke iPhone development service please Contact Us.

About Component Workshop

Established in 2005, by Floyd Price and Adrian O’Connor, Component Workshop quickly established itself as a leader in the field of Software development with the popular www.CodeSpaces.com development and project management platform.

Component Workshop now operates as a Software Development Shop and as a Software Consultancy, working with leading organisations to provide quality and cost effective solutions to business critical problems.

Our culture is young and enthusiastic, we encourage innovation and Fun at every opportunity. Our passion for technology is shared by all members of staff, and our commitment to our customers is Honesty, Transparency and Value for Money