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Why OData Matters (IMHO)
Earlier this week I was in the MIX10 crowd as Douglas Purdy announced the Open Data Protocol (it was a great presentation - summarized here ). I want to share with you why I think OData could be a very big deal…But before we go there...let's start with...
Connecting Clouds: Intuit Partner Platform and Windows Azure
How about I break my blogging “hiatus” by sharing some cool stuff the Intuit Partner Platform team has been working on for a little while that involves Windows Azure? OK, then… :-) This morning, Intuit and Microsoft have announced very cool news for Intuit...
Federated Apps on the Intuit Partner Platform
So what have I been working on since joining Intuit? A bunch of stuff, but something I wanted to shout about is the release of “Federated Applications” on the Intuit Partner Platform . Working closely with five new developers to Intuit's Platform as a...
Startups and the Cloud: free event in Waltham, MA, sponsored by Intuit
This is an event I'm helping to organize...hope you can join! From the App Gap blog : "On June 11th we’re organizing a gathering in Waltham, MA called Startups and the Cloud to talk about how starting a successful software business has changed now that...
Joining Intuit
Firstly - thanks to everyone who has reached out to me in the last three weeks via email, phone calls and comments since I shared the news of my pursuit for the next adventure - I have really appreciated everyone's support and interest in my next steps...
The Great Bungee Jump
Well, the great Bungee Jump has come. Martin Plaehn, CEO of Bungee Labs has shared the news of the company the letting go of 15 regular employees and contractors . Unfortunately, I am among this set of affected Bungee Labs employees. A Voyage of Discovery...
How ADO.NET Data Services came to be (formerly known as Project Astoria)
Pablo Castro has recounted some of his timelined memories about how "Project Astoria" evolved from a lunch time conversation to bits in .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 now known as ADO.NET Data Services Framework ). Nice write up. Three memories...
Join me at Web 2.0 Expo New York - Building in the Clouds: Scaling Web 2.0
I'll be taking part in one of the Cloud computing panels at Web 2.0 Expo New York this September, details below. If you want to meet up, let me know. Building in the Clouds: Scaling Web 2.0 Jason Hoffman (Joyent, Inc.), Alistair Croll (Bitcurrent), Alex...
Project Management as SaaS, Programmable Wikis and more
Two new interview podcasts to share (recorded by me and Ted ) for the Bungee Line: Nate Bowler, CTO of @Task @task (or AtTask ) is a Utah-based tech company providing a comprehensive, web-based project and portfolio-management package delivered in both...
Open Source in a SaaS World
About a year ago, I took part in a meeting where the question: "What does open source "mean" in a SaaS world?" came up in conversation. A year later, that same question is becoming increasingly pertinent as the IT industry's move to Software-as-a-Service...
Designing Web APIs - Twitter Learnings
Although I made it to Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, I didn't make it to a session Matt McAlister blogged about by Twitter’s Alex Payne and Michael Migurski of Stamen Design who presented learnings from the perspective of an API provider. But...
Bungee Connect news x3 to share with you this morning
Three big pieces of Bungee Connect news to share with you this morning: 1. Bungee Grid now running on Amazon EC2 and accessible to Bungee Developers Bungee-powered application hosting on Bungee Grid-EC2 using Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) infrastructure...
So what is this Platform as a Service thing?
The "platform-as-a-service", or PaaS meme is getting more air play the last 24 hours as news of Google App Engine makes its way through the tech media and blogs. ReadWriteWeb has a good write up and Phil Wainewright's summation by declaring "Let the PaaS...
Sync Google Calendar with Outlook and more with WideLens
Google has just released a very cool utility (.exe download for Windows) providing users with the ability to synchronize their Google Calendar with Outlook. Some nice features in their 0.9.3.0 release: schedule the sync frequency: every x minutes define...
Astoria at MIX08 (REST in Vegas)
As much as I'd love to make it to MIX08 this week, time will not allow me...But if I were, then I'd be going to the following three sessions related to the Project Formerly Known as Astoria : Wed, March 5th - RESTful Data Services with the ADO.NET Data...
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