Tweet I am not blogging to among the A list bloggers or drive large amounts of traffic to my blog. I do this primarily for myself and as a result I tend to have some readers and followers. At conferences I tend to take notes and when I find time and get in the blogging [...]
Tweet I am still processing my notes and information from the Google I/O conference in San Francisco last week. I will be making some individual posts on different sessions I attended. I wanted to speak to my overall experience at the conference. I had a little insight behind the scenese because even though I went [...]
Tweet I was browsing the magazine rack at borders books this morning as I often do. I notice an IPhone Application directory magazine. Besides the fact that Mac and I everything seems to dominate the technology section of the magazine rack, Apple really is on it when it comes to publishing. I would like to [...]
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Tweet I am excited about the recent launch of Data.gov. I am very passionate about what API and open data access can do for companies and belive the same is true about Government. Now that the site is launched….we need some data. Doesn’t look like much is available quite yet. I queried all categories and [...]
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Tweet I am enjoying taking a current web application and making it run in Adobe Air. So far I have quickly ported an existing ColdFusion web application over to run within a downloadable Adobe Air application. It runs as it does in the browser with a few modifications. It is completely dependent on an internet [...]
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Tweet Finished up a very busy week yesterday at the SAP SAPPHIRE 2009 conference in Orlando, FL. Haven’t had much time on my hands to do any blogging or much of anything beyond just managing registration at SAPPHIRE. The show was a success. I feel good about it. It was my first on-site with the [...]
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Tweet Haven’t had much time lately to blog. Currently getting ready for the SAP SAPPHIRE event in Orlando. Our team has been preparing our servers, technology, registration counters, airport registration, and much more for the event. Orlando is cool, but haven’t had much time to explore. Maybe was the event gets under way we’ll have [...]
Tweet I just finished a recovery of an amazon EC2 instance that failed. It failed not due to anything related to the Amazon EC2 instance. It was something Java related in the ColdFusion environment, and still trying to figure out. Anwyays, as soon as I saw I couldn’t recover the services necessary to run the [...]
Tweet I started doing some research on cloud computing a couple weeks ago. I have been watching the Google search results for my name to see how long it took for this research to float up in my profile. It showed up at #28 now. I have seen other pages too show up below that. [...]
Tweet I am seeing more and more data available at the Recovery.org web site. The site provides some great overview of money distributed, but it takes forever to really dive into specific aspects of where the money is being spent at the local, state or federal level. What I would like to see is on [...]
Tweet I have seen a lot of press about how the stimulus money is being spend and tracked. I have come across many ideas for how this should be tracked. I have gone through all 50 states recovery web sites as well as many of the federal agency web sites. There is definitely no rhyme [...]
Tweet I am spending an hour or two each week and working with my mother and her business partner on growing their small business. Last weekend I spend some time in Ashland coming back from California and helped them talk through their business. We identified some problems in their supply chain, however they are making [...]
Tweet Watching the recent explosion in growth around IPhone applications and seeing the potential for other mobile application development on Blackberry, Android and other platforms…I can’t help but think how this is the future of computing. I see many useful business and fun applications on the Iphone and Blackberry coming out every day. I just [...]
Tweet I am a big advocate for educating politicians and our leaders on cloud computing and what it can do to save money and open up our government for more involvement by the public at large. I am amazed at how many leaders are already in the know about cloud computing. I was just reading [...]
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Tweet I have had several talks with small businesses about their comapnies infrastructure and what the next steps are. When I bring up cloud computing, the first question I get is in regards to security. How secure is our data, our apps? Valid questions and cloud service providers have a lot of proving to do [...]
Tweet Google continued maturing their cloud offerings for the enterprise world yesterday with a Google Apps LDAP integration tool. Google Apps Directory Sync now lets businesses and schools with an LDAP user directory system transition more quickly and smoothly to Google Apps. Instead of manually maintaining a separate user account directory in Google Apps, this [...]
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Tweet I was waiting for my Google Profile to float up in my listings. I watch the top 20 Google search results for my name fairly often. It is important to me what shows there. I had extended my Google Profile a couple weeks ago when I first heard they were offering more features here. [...]