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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Time to Define "Platform as a Service" (or PaaS)
Before joining Bungee Labs last year, I knew they were on to something big. I mean, really big. A big idea, an ambitious vision: to provide developers with end-to-end development, testing, deployment and hosting of sophisticated web applications as a...
Podcast interviews - smart people in the world of the web
One of the fun parts of my job at Bungee Labs is to partner up with Ted and interview some smart people in the world of the web. We publish these as a podcast series ( the Bungee Line - podcast feed here ) over on the BCDN blog . If you have ideas about...
8 Trends in Software as a Service Platforms
To kick off the new year, I presented to around 40 or 50 members of Utah Technology Council ( UTC ) last week. The title of the topic they asked me to speak about was "Trends in Software as a Service Platforms". I searched around for some ideas and came...
Scalability at Amazon (notes)
Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon.com spoke at Supernova 2006 on the topic of Scalability at Amazon and the talk is available as a podcast at IT Conversations ( thanks to James Governor for the link ). I made some notes as I listened this morning and thought...
Alex Barnett Podcasts
Alex Barnett Podcasts - I like podcasting, here are the links to them. 2008 - Podcasts for the Bungee Line Nate Bowler, CTO of @Task , July 20 2008 @task (or AtTask ) is a Utah-based tech company providing a comprehensive, web-based project and portfolio...
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