Deploy Hello World in 3 minutes 30 seconds
Bungee Labs makes the claim on www.bungeeconnect.com that you can have a Hello World app built and deployed in less than 10 minutes.
I tried it. It took me less than a third of that time: 3:30.
February 26, 2008
February 22, 2008
Screencast of Socal Linux Expo Presentation
As services and software start to move more and more into the cloud–the emerging domain of service providers hosting not just storage or virtual machines, but the actual code for web applications–some very interesting question arise:
- How does sharing code become easier?
- How can you provide developers maximum control over their creations?
- How will source code licenses work?
- How will the next generation of platform providers balance between security and confidentiality of their developer/users on the one hand, and the increased value that many developers place on using open systems?
These are the kind of questions that my company Bungee Labs is wrestling with, and I recently took a stab at presenting some of our current, early thinking in this area in my presentation at Socal Linux Expo.
The presentation was received quite well by the audience of some 30 people, so I took the time to assemble the slides and audio, and stitch them together with some screencast videos
Since SCaLE is a Free Software-friendly event, the image is linked to a Theora (.ogg) video file.
Video Stats
Run time: 55:51
Theora: 114MB
QuickTime: 150MB
If the file sizes are inconvenient for you, my apologies. I don’t have the best of video editing/encoding facilities at my disposal.
Please let me know if you find any issues in getting or viewing the video. Also, I am very interested in feedback regarding our current thinking regarding licensing.
Related Links
- Bungee Connect Terms & Agreements
- SaaS Loophole References & Relevant Reading:
- “Open Source Licenses are Obsolete” , Tim O’Reilly, August 01, 2006
- “The GPL Has No (Networked) Future”, Bryan Richard, March 29, 2007
- “The GPL and Software as a Service”, Tim O’Reilly, July 12, 2007
- “GPL v3 Not a Concern For Google”, Sean Michael Kerner, March 29, 2007
- GNU General Public License 3 (GPLv3)
- GNU Affero General Public License 3 (AGPLv3)
- Lock-in Considerations
February 19, 2008
Barack Obama
In my past job as a public spokesperson for Novell, I steered clear of discussing politics in my blog. But that was then.While I remain a technologist, and I will keep my blog focused on the technology in which I am involved, you might notice that I recently I added a widget containing an image of Barack Obama which links to his site. So, I’ll just state briefly: my country faces an opportunity to elect an extremely rare human being. The more I watch this man, the more I read and learn about him, the more I am struck by what an extraordinary person he is. He earned my vote in the Utah primary, and I have donated to his campaign.I encourage you to find out more about him, whether to disagree with his positions or to support him.And now, back to the tech…
February 11, 2008
A brief MindTouch (Deki Wiki) Demo
At Socal Linux Expo, I met some of the guys from MindTouch, makers of Deki Wiki. They showed me around their REST API, so I quickly jinned up a small app to use in my presentation. It’s a really simple app that calls their search AP, displays a results list, and allows you to add individual results to a favorites list.
The app took me about 1 hour to develop and deploy, so there are not a whole lot of features. Nevertheless, there are some cool interactions that you can do, such as drag-and-drop from results to favorites (double-clicking works, too), and using the delete key to remove from the favorites list.
If you’re interested to making some customizations with Deki Wiki, drop me a line (ted at bungeelabs) and I’ll give you access to the source code.
Interviewed at Socal Linux Expo
SCaLE6 conference organizer, Orv Beach, interviewed me at this weekend’s big event in Los Angeles.
I speak in the interview about the switch from a large Linux distributor to working for a small startup, and some of what I have been doing at Bungee Labs over the past year.
February 4, 2008
Fun with GroupWise in Bungee Connect
In my quest to learn how to develop software in Bungee Connect, I decided to use the SOAP service for Novell GroupWise. I chose to use GroupWise as a reference platform for two reasons. First, the SOAP API for GroupWise has all the sophistication you could want: multiple levels of object inheritance, and its scope is comprehensive to say the least. (I wish I had understood that when I was in charge of marketing for GroupWise!) Second, nine years of working at Novell left me knowing how GroupWise works, so I would know when I actually got something to work.
Here’s a video of the project I am working on, available in patent-encumbered mpeg4, and freedom-loving Xiph (Ogg).If you would like access to my source code, drop me a line. I’m happy to provide you with the code and guidance on developing in Bungee Connect.
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February 1, 2008
SCaLE6: Returning to Socal Linux Expo
Once again I will be presenting at Socal Linux Expo. Each SCaLE so far has been a great show, and this 6th year promises to be excellent. Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon is keynote speaker this year (co-presenting with his beard), and his presentations are quite entertaining (even for denizens of Los Angeles, who are accustomed to seeing the occasional massive traffic accident). So if you’re in the Los Angeles area, come on down and check it out.
This year my presentation is about startups and open source, using case-in-point company, Bungee Labs. They booked me last in line on Sunday afternoon, so if you’re going, please hang out to the very end.
Drop me a line if you’d like to chew the fat, and whatnot.
