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That's great, Docker and microservices are the silver bullet that will make all your problems go away 
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I have a dejà vóu  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I, for one, would love to hear the reason for this endeavor.
After all, it might be quicker to develop an iOS app and do this on your iPhone. 
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Inquiring minds want to know: Why?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Inquiring minds want to know: Why?
Same reason that people climb any mountain. Because it's there! 
Chris screaming from the top of Mt. RPi, "I conquered you, you dirty beast!! Do you hear me??" < echo>
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Consider the case when there's the solution that requires nothing more than a really big hammer and no brains, and the case where there's a solution that requires you to break out the instruction book, put on wear eye protection, and has strident warnings about not exerting too much pressure. The first one is 10 times longer than the other but requires no thought and allows mindless yelling
Guess which solution I was in the mood for today.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Ah. Automating the BFH: Big ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing Hammer. Good man; carry on.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Psychopaths: I don't care about rules, types, or beauty, just get it done (JS)
Obsessives: a little monotony now avoids a lot of pain later (go, java)
Masochists: Look at how disciplined I am! (C)
Sadists: Look at how impotent everyone else is! (perl, regex)
Hysterics: Look at how beautiful this code is! (python)
Fetishists: Have you tried more X? (objects, abstractions, types) (smalltalk, erlang)
Melancholy: Oh, I miss the days when I could write an entire application in 200 lines of Lisp..
Anything look familiar?
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Mike Hankey wrote: Melancholy: Oh, I miss the days when I could write an entire application in 200 lines of Lisp..
I don't know Lisp (other than a brief stint with AutoLisp long ago), but wouldn't it require about 12,502 parenthesis in those 200 lines for a medium-sized program?
Mike Hankey wrote: Sadists: Look at how impotent everyone else is! (perl, regex)
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Docker is so last week, everyone is now building AI chat bots now...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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AI chatbots are sooo last hour dude. Everyone is building chatbot-exam-cheating-detection-circumvention bots now.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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The mobile phone turns 50! /a>[^]
I had a company Nokia 1011 in the early 90's - I was on call for a custard* - but the MD had a Dynatak. At least mine fitted in a suit / motorcycle jacket pocket! And I never went back - I've had smartphones since the first days of the HP iPaq phone (which predated the iPhony by several years but never caught on with the mass market).
Anyone else go back further?
* A cross between a customer and a b*st*rd.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It was in 1991 for me. I remember vividly getting the company's phone (I was sharing it with another guy) on a wharf in Barcelona. I called my wife and said "can you imagine I'm calling form a place in the middle of nowhere?". The phone in question was an Ericsson that could have been also used for ironing: all electronics and battery were in a separate handheld unit and weighted something like 2 pounds.
A year latter got myself a "slick" Nokia that could indeed fit in my pocket.
Mircea
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OriginalGriff wrote: never caught on with the mass market
...because they were slow and clunky. 
OriginalGriff wrote: Anyone else go back further?
Not for my own use but as a young-ish IT guy (at the time) I was forced to setup and migrate data from various Sharp PDAs in the late 80's and early 90's for a certain forward thinking but technically inept corporate exec. They probably made the iPAQ look like magic.
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Not for the time, they were OK - I suspect it was more the usual HP lack of marketing and promotion.
Back then they pretty much didn't have a marketing budget because they were acquiring other companies like crazy with little idea what the heck to do with them ... and that soaked up cash.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Not for the time, they were OK
They were too slow and clunky for their use. Hardware and software of the day wasn't ready to deliver the kind of experience needed for success on that kind of device.
Sorry but no amount of marketing could have made the iPAQ a success.
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In 1981, the automated cellular NMT network (Nordic Mobile Telephone) replaced the old operator-assisted mobile phone network. It was an immense success in the Nordic countries, and prevailed long after the introduction of GSM, much because 450 MHz NMT had much greater coverage than 900 MHz GSM.
In the US, I guess this has minor or no importance, though...
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Mid '91 I was the first in the company to get a Motorola MicroTAC II flip. All the goodies too. 3 different sized batteries, car kit....
The salesmen who had been lugging round "bricks" (DynaTAC) were sooo jealous that a techo got a nicer phone. 
Battery life was not a great thing in those NiCd days. There were a few hours-long international conference calls where I had to make a quick battery swap and rejoin the call.
It replaced a pager, which was nice. The nature of the business was such that most of the support calls from ops were between 1am and 4am. I could now respond to the trivial ones without getting out of bed. And if I had to get out of bed, I could talk to them while the landline was tied up with the dial-up modem.
Replaced by some candybar Nokia I don't remember when AMPS was phased out for CDMA.
And I am older than the (bipolar) transistor.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I guess their definition of a mobile phone is "Handheld".
Ericsson designed their first fully automated mobile phone system for vehicles in 1956, it weighed a whopping 40 kg though.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: fully automated mobile phone system for vehicles in 1956
The ones before that were 'manual'???
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There were mobile phone systems before that where you had to order a call from the exchange.
The border between a mobile phone system and a glorified radio is a bit fuzzy, but the Ericsson MTA had a rotary dial and automatic connection to the normal telephone system.
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Well that is interesting.
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All I had was a pager and the nearest phone box. I could not afford a mobile phone.
Mobile phones are for making and receiving calls and texts. Beyond that, the screen size is way too small for me. 
ed
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OriginalGriff wrote: Anyone else go back further?
Not for cellphone, no...
But in 1986 I was issued with a company (EDS) pager for overnight support. It seemed miraculous at the time - receiving instant messages whereever I was, with a little (16 character?) display. There were three of us on the project supporting a credit card processing application, with one each night on support and one on "backup" support. So that was four nights a week we were "on duty" with a pager. EDS being what it was, there was a strict "no drinking" rule whilst on duty; however the team often met socially after work. One night my colleague's pager went off, and it got "accidentally" dropped in his pint. When I got home about an hour later, mine (as backup) also went off. Fortunately the fix for the production issue was trivial and ops were able to resolve it without me dialling in (we also had a portable teletype unit and modem with acoustic coupler!), which by then was just as well... 
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Both actually, if you're interested in MS products.
The noise about Bluetooth had me thinking too ... but in terms of Windows.
My Google of "MSDN c# bluetooth file transfer" yielded virtually nothing worthwhile in the first x pages (note the use of MSDN which tends to (usually) surface better results).
The same query in Bing then yielded at #2: "Bluetooth RFCOMM"
Quote: This article provides an overview of Bluetooth RFCOMM in Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, along with example code on how to send or receive a file.
... "exactly" what I was looking for but was afraid to ask.
Subsequently querying Google on "uwp bluetooth rfcomm" yielded a swath of useful results.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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