: skip to main skip to sidebar OakLeaf Systems OakLeaf Systems is a Northern California software consulting organization specializing in developing and writing about Windows Azure , SQL Azure Database SADB LINQ , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Astoria Microsoft Synchronization Framework , SQL Server 2005+ , SQL Server CE , NET database , and Web services . projects Monday , October 19, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10 19 2009+ Windows Azure , Azure Data Services , SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series . : Note This post is updated daily or more frequently , depending on the availability of new articles in the following : sections Azure Blob , Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database SADB NET Services : Access Control , Service Bus and Workflow Live Windows Azure Apps , Tools and Test Harnesses Windows Azure Infrastructure Cloud Security and Governance Cloud Computing Events Other Cloud Computing Platforms and Services To use the above links , first click the post’s title to display the single article you want to . navigate Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform published 9 21 2009.
Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven
Launched over the weekend, App of the Day was featured on TechCrunch, The Washington Post and LifeHacker for it’s simple set up and highly needed platform in the iPhone App world.
The iPhone API has allowed developers to get creative and develop apps that fulfill all sorts of needs, which gives you tens of thousands of apps to choose from. I just did a search on my iPhone for “WorkOut” and received a selection of over 100 ... Read More >
Recently some of the team in Voxeo’s Beijing office took a trip to the Beijing Botanical Garden and uploaded a set of photos for all to see:
I’ve not yet traveled to Beijing myself, but based on these photos the Botanical Garden looks like a great place to visit when I do get there! (Thanks [...]Ever wished there was a simple way to do automated testing of your IVR or other voice application? Without a complex setup and without costing a great amount?
Back at SpeechTEK in August, our partners at Nu Echo announced the availability of their “Nu Bot Platform” for IVR Application Testing. Today, Andreas Volmer from [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar OakLeaf Systems OakLeaf Systems is a Northern California software consulting organization specializing in developing and writing about Windows Azure , SQL Azure Database SADB LINQ , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Astoria Microsoft Synchronization Framework , SQL Server 2005+ , SQL Server CE , NET database , and Web services . projects Sunday , October 18, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10 14 2009+ Windows Azure , Azure Data Services , SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series . Update 10 18 2009 : Microsoft : New Windows Azure landing page Dana Gardner : Forrester’s new Top 15 Technology Trends report Jack Mann : Interview of Ryan Howard , CEO of Practice Fusion Chris Hoff : Who should bear DDoS attack costs Wade Wegner : Azure Services Platform slide deck Lori MacVittie : Putting a price on uptime Geva Perry : CloudCamp in the Cloud Ayende Rahien : NHibernate Shards : Progress Report Reuven Cohen : Anatomy of a Cloud Consultant Gwen Morton and Ted Alford : Governmental cloud computing economic analysis Kevin Jackson : Review of the Morton Alford analysis Ashlee Vance :
Twenty top Canadian Digital Media companies will be presenting their latest ventures at the Fusion '09 Venture Forum and you still have an opportunity to be one of them.
Fusion '09 is scheduled for November 12-13 at Robson Square in Downtown Vancouver and includes a 2-day Entrepreneur Bootcamp, a [...]
Kinaxis has just published its latest white paper, Five Ways Your Procurement Could Be Leaving Money On The Table
Enterprises that provide their strategic procurement teams with proper tools can expect them to deliver year-over-year cost savings, close to 10 times their expenses.
This white paper
lists five key pieces of intelligence that enable strategic sourcing professionals be [...]
If you are heading out to FOSS4G this weekend, make sure you stop by the 3rd Ignite Spatial next week.
Ignite Spatial – Sydney
Wednesday 21st Oct, 2009
5.30pm for 6.30pm
Shelbourne Hotel
200 Sussex St, Sydney
You can see a list of presenters here. If you’ve never been to an Ignite, this is your chance.
: skip to main skip to sidebar OakLeaf Systems OakLeaf Systems is a Northern California software consulting organization specializing in developing and writing about Windows Azure , SQL Azure Database SADB LINQ , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Astoria Microsoft Synchronization Framework , SQL Server 2005+ , SQL Server CE , NET database , and Web services . projects Thursday , October 15, 2009 Microsoft Begins Restoration of Lost Sidekick Data I promised I wouldn’t add any Sidekick or Bitbucket items to the current Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10 14 2009+ post , so here’s the latest on Microsoft’s Sidekick backup : fiasco Roz Ho Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Premium Mobile Experiences announced in this Microsoft Confirms Data Recovery for Sidekick Users thread of 10 15 2009 1:00 AM in T-Mobile’s Sidekick Help forum : Data Restoration to Begin as Soon as Possible for Affected Customers Dear T-Mobile Sidekick , customers On behalf of Microsoft , I want to apologize for the recent problems with the Sidekick service and give you an update on the steps we have taken to resolve these . problems We are pleased to report that we have recoveredToday out in Glendale, Arizona, Jason Goecke, Voxeo’s VP of Innovation for Voxeo Labs, will be speaking at the AstriCon 2009 event. As outlined on our events page for Astricon 2009, Jason’s talk is today at 10:00am:
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
10 – 10:35, Devloping AGI & AMI Applications with Ruby and Adhearsion
Adhearsion (http://adhearsion.com) is a Ruby-based [...]It´s been more than 6 months since our partner Nu Echo released NuGram IDE Basic Edition, a free Eclipse-based grammar development environment, and almost two months since we announced its integration into Voxeo´s VoiceObjects service creation environment. For this reason, Nu Echo is currently conducting a survey to get feedback from the grammar developer community. Whatever [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar OakLeaf Systems OakLeaf Systems is a Northern California software consulting organization specializing in developing and writing about Windows Azure , SQL Azure Database SADB LINQ , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Astoria Microsoft Synchronization Framework , SQL Server 2005+ , SQL Server CE , NET database , and Web services . projects Tuesday , October 13, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10 12 2009+ Windows Azure , Azure Data Services , SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series . Update 10 13 2009 : Wade Wenger : Live Azure WMI Sam Johnston : Cloud or Not Chris Hoff : Amazon Web Services and Transparency Glenn Laffel , MD : Health 2.0 Retrospective and many more . : Note This post is updated daily or more frequently , depending on the availability of new articles in the following : sections Azure Blob , Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database SADB NET Services : Access Control , Service Bus and Workflow Live Windows Azure Apps , Tools and Test Harnesses Windows Azure Infrastructure Cloud Security and Governance Cloud Computing Events Other Cloud Computing Platforms andLast week with our Motorola announcement, we quietly introduced a new section of this website… something we are calling the rather not-flashy-yet-totally-accurate name of “Voxeo News”:
http://blogs.voxeo.com/news/
This actually came about after our CEO, Jonathan Taylor, asked if there was a single link to all our Motorola-announcement-related content that he could post in his Facebook status. We [...]Did you miss our free webinar last week about how you can build a “multi-channel” application that interacts with customers across voice, SMS, IM, mobile web and Twitter?
If you missed it, don’t worry… the archive of both the recorded webinar and the slides are available now on the Monthly Jam Sessions page of our VoiceObjects [...]For those watching IETF standards, the draft agenda is now out for the upcoming 76th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force from November 8th through 13th in Hiroshima, Japan. As usual, it will be a jam-packed week of activity. The IETF 76 host committee has a great web site up filled with info [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar OakLeaf Systems OakLeaf Systems is a Northern California software consulting organization specializing in developing and writing about Windows Azure , SQL Azure Database SADB LINQ , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Astoria Microsoft Synchronization Framework , SQL Server 2005+ , SQL Server CE , NET database , and Web services . projects Sunday , October 11, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10 7 2009+ Windows Azure , Azure Data Services , SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series . Update 10 11 2009 : Me : PassportMD SSL certificate now OK but no sync with HealthVault Wade Wegner : Create an MVC Azure app in Radim Marek : Amazon EC2 still vulnerable to UDP flood attacks Sam Johnston : How Open Cloud could have saved Sidekick users' skins Ben Day : Azure : Is the Relational Database Dead and a few . others Update 10 10 2009 : John Miller : Grid Computing with Azure Charlton Barreto : More about the DDoS attack on Bitbucket at AWS Dana Gardner : Architects to cloud advocates : Get real Update 10 9 2009 : Sanjay Jain : Incubation Week for Windows Azure Aaron Skonnard : Demo code
Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven
I attended the 140 | Twitter Conference in LA a couple of weeks ago, hosted by the Parnassus Group. The purpose was to bring the Twitter community together – novice and experienced – to discuss how they are using Twitter, what it means for your brand, best practices and tools and what we believe the future of Twitter will be.
There were many high profile individuals there that avidly use Twitter including – ... Read More >
: skip to main skip to sidebar OakLeaf Systems OakLeaf Systems is a Northern California software consulting organization specializing in developing and writing about Windows Azure , SQL Azure Database SADB LINQ , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Astoria Microsoft Synchronization Framework , SQL Server 2005+ , SQL Server CE , NET database , and Web services . projects Tuesday , October 06, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10 5 2009+ Windows Azure , Azure Data Services , SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series . Update 10 6 2009 : Me : Amazon subsidizes SimpleDB charges John Moore : Will NHIN be the new Health Internet Geva Perry : Domain-specific clouds WSJ Health Blog : Adam Bosworth’s Keas personal health management site Wally B . McClure : Tweet Master TwtMstr Update : Note This post is updated daily or more frequently , depending on the availability of new articles in the following : sections Azure Blob , Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database SADB NET Services : Access Control , Service Bus and Workflow Live Windows Azure Apps , Tools and Test Harnesses Windows Azure Infrastructure CloudJust a reminder that tomorrow at 8am US Pacific, 11am US Eastern, 5pm Central European time, our next Developer Jam Session will focus on how you can build “multi-channel” applications where customers can interact with those apps via voice, IM, SMS, web, Twitter and more…
Would you like to build “multi-channel” communications apps where customers can [...]The two major ERP vendors (which I call SAPORACLE) are facing a more rapid decline in licensing revenues due to IT cutbacks. In fact, they are essentially facing a “Reset” - more so than a recession. CIO’ are very tired with ERP vendors raising maintenance and throwing acquired software products at them left and right. [...]Today we are pleased to announce that Voxeo has acquired Motorola’s VoiceXML browser business, including full and exclusive rights to Motorola’s VoxGateway VoiceXML browser. Additionally, all existing OEM customers of Motorola’s VoiceXML browser are now Voxeo customers. As we’ve been talking about this announcement, we came up with the following answers to questions [...]What is a VoiceXML browser? What is VoiceXML? What role do they play in communication? Why did Voxeo purchase Motorola’s VoiceXML browser business? What does that mean for people in the industry? How will it help companies that want to add VoiceXML into their products?
In this episode, host Dan York dives into those [...]
The introduction of Project Lombok, a combination compile-time and development-time code generator, has made Java POJO verbosity history. Add Lombok to your daily coding practices, and you won't go back.
Dear Harper, John, Mark, Michael, Nick and Rick:
We’d like to send each of you a Warm (and by warm we mean Texas warm) Welcome to the Rackspace family! We are so excited to have you join The Rackspace Cloud, and become bona fide Rackers. There are many reasons why we are excited, but here are the top four:
1) All six of you are Geeks, with a passion for customers. So again “birds of feather flock together…”
2) You all have been ... Read More >Over on The Really Mobile Project blog, Martyn Davies has posted an interview with Rod Ullens, CEO of Voxbone, primarily about the iNum initiative that Voxbone leads. We’re partners with Voxbone in the iNum initiative and about a year ago I wrote about the topic at length in a post:
How to get an iNum [...]
Would you like to build “multi-channel” communications apps where customers can interact with your app via voice, IM, SMS, web and Twitter? Would you like to take existing voice applications you have developed and add these new channels to that app? Does the idea of writing an application once and having it interact [...]
I was interviewed recently for a ‘inaxis Quick Take’ which are short video interviews posted on the Supply Chain Expert Community. I was asked about Customer Co-planning.
Take a look and chime in with your opinions. How would you have answered these questions…
What is co-planning and why are companies embracing this strategy?
With co-planning becoming a growing [...]
Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven
Imagine a day dedicated to celebrate the “idea that each individual has the power to transform the world, the ability to imprint.” – this day is Mandela Day and it occurs annually on July 18th, Nelson Mandela’s birthday.
Rackspace Cloud Customer, Core Industries, landed the first Mandela Day web project that occurred this past July. Core Industries is an interactive marketing, design and development firm and has a strong environmental, socially conscious mission. When Gotham Ad Agency ... Read More >What is most interesting about Google Wave? Back in June 2009 at an event happening near the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, MA, I had a chance to sit down with Christopher S. Penn and get his thoughts about the recently-announced Google Wave and how it might be used as a communication tool. As [...]On Monday over on the Emerging Tech Talk video podcast, I posted a brief interview with SIPit coordinator Robert Sparks that I recorded at the SIPit 25 event held in September 2009 at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (IOL) in Durham, NH, USA.
In the interview, we covered questions such as: What is the [...]
Emil Sayegh, General Manager, The Rackspace Cloud
You may have read from Silicon Angle yesterday that former CTO of Threadless, Harper Reed is joining the Rackspace Cloud as our very own Nepholologist - What is a Nepholologist? Feel free to look it up. ;) He’ll be working on cool technology for our customers, evangelizing The Rackspace Cloud, and serve as an all around technical expert to help customers on board The Rackspace Cloud. I am personally very excited to have ... Read More >For those interested in plugins to your WordPress install, I found this very lengthy review of 43 plugins that are apparently finalists in the “WordPress Plugin Competition 2009″:
http://planetozh.com/blog/2009/09/wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-43-reviews/
I don’t know how many of those plugins are WordPress MU-compatible – and I have just started reading through all the reviews, but thought I’d pass it along [...]What is the SIPit test event all about? How does it make communications systems better? What do participants do at the event? How can companies get involved? To answer all those questions and more, host Dan York interviewed SIPit coordinator Robert Sparks at the SIPit 25 event held in September 2009 at the University of [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar OakLeaf Systems OakLeaf Systems is a Northern California software consulting organization specializing in developing and writing about Windows Azure , SQL Azure Database SADB LINQ , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Astoria Microsoft Synchronization Framework , SQL Server 2005+ , SQL Server CE , NET database , and Web services . projects Sunday , September 27, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9 24 2009+ Windows Azure , Azure Data Services , SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series . : Note This post is updated daily or more frequently , depending on the availability of new articles in the following : sections Azure Blob , Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database SADB NET Services : Access Control , Service Bus and Workflow Live Windows Azure Apps , Tools and Test Harnesses Windows Azure Infrastructure Cloud Security and Governance Cloud Computing Events Other Cloud Computing Platforms and Services To use these links , click the post title to display the single article you want to . navigate Tip : Copy or to the clipboard , press Ctrl+F and paste into the search text box to
: skip to main skip to sidebar OakLeaf Systems OakLeaf Systems is a Northern California software consulting organization specializing in developing and writing about Windows Azure , SQL Azure Database SADB LINQ , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Astoria Microsoft Synchronization Framework , SQL Server 2005+ , SQL Server CE , NET database , and Web services . projects Sunday , September 27, 2009 LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 9 21 2009+ : Note This post is updated weekly or more frequently , depending on the availability of new . articles Entity Framework and Entity Data Model EF EDM Nikolaos Kantzelis dives into ASP.NET 4.0,SEO and meta tags in this 9 27 2009 : post I am thinking to create a new series of posts regarding ASP.NET and SEO Search Engine Optimisation I am going to start with this post , talking about some new features that make our asp.net apps more SEO friendly . At the end of the day , there is no point having a great application and somehow scare” the search engines away . This is going to be a short post so let’s quickly have a look at meta keywords and ASP.NET 4.0. Evolutionary Geek s Pre-Generating Entity Framework Views with Embedded
: skip to main skip to sidebar OakLeaf Systems OakLeaf Systems is a Northern California software consulting organization specializing in developing and writing about Windows Azure , SQL Azure Database SADB LINQ , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Astoria Microsoft Synchronization Framework , SQL Server 2005+ , SQL Server CE , NET database , and Web services . projects Wednesday , September 23, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9 21 2009+ Windows Azure , Azure Data Services , SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series . Tip : Copy or to the clipboard , press Ctrl+F and paste into the search text box to find updated . articles Update 9 23 2009 : Rob Gillen’s Azure with Large Data Sets presentation and live demo Jay Fry’s review of the 451 Group’s Cloud in Context” Event CloudSwitch leaves stealth mode Mary Hayes Weier says subscription-based pricing for Oracle products is on Safra’s , desk Linda MGlasson on The Future of PCI , 8221 Chris Hoff warns about patches to IaaS and PaaS services Gartner’s Tom Bittman proposes recorded music as A Better Cloud Computing Analogy than water or electricity , two Johns