I've been recommended to speak with Leigh Rowan in the past for iBeacon projects. I haven't had the pleasure of doing so yet but he came highly recommended. His contact information is on his LinkedIn account. https://www.linkedin.com/in/leighrowan
Hosting: Heroku: Great for small applications and getting off the ground as fast as possible. It's easy to manage and your team can focus on features instead of worrying about maintaining operations. Cloud (AWS, Rackspace, Azure): Great if you're expecting growth. You can start up insta...
Here is an article about setting up AWS EC2 to run Play and Mongo: http://stevenwilliamalexander.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/amazon-ec2-mongo-play-scala-instance-setup-gu/ and there are also guides for binding to Amazon Simple DB and Dynamo in Scala as well that might be much easier setup than using...
I've been successfully using ShellyCloud for couple of years. It's linux based cloud platform deployable via git push, MySQL support is also available as MariaDB. https://shellycloud.com
I recommend you breakdowns of the particular to the smallest deliverable. You can use the tool WBS Chart Pro
You're not asking a very simple question here. It sounds like the correct answer is to train users better, but that may not be the right approach. There are many different ways to look at the issue. One of the most important questions is who is deciding on the tool set. Some IT deployments lo...
Hi. Parse should do the job ( https://www.parse.com ). We've successfully used them at Vuzum across many native and hybrid apps on both iOS and Android.