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A Network Hypervisor

I recently watched a video of a lecture given at Stanford University by a prof from Berkeley (Go Figure). The lecture was about the definition of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and how the original team had succeeded in some areas … Continue reading

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The Evolution of the VM

For the past several months I have been working extensively with Oracle’s Virtual Box. As I learn new technologies, operating systems and Applications, I have installed, cloned and deployed various virtual machines. I picked up a used Del T7500 with … Continue reading

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VR and the Business Meeting

Yesterday Facebook announced that it had purchased a company in California called Oculus VR for two billion dollars. Oculus has been manufacturing a headset and shipping a developer’s kit for the last year that has been widely accepted by the … Continue reading

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Keeping it Simple

When it comes to designing software there are those who look for the absolute best technical solution and those who do their best to keep things simple. I have witnessed projects that have become so complex that new designers take … Continue reading

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First impression of IOS 7

The world upgraded to IOS 7 today so I thought I would take a few moments to give you my first impression. I currently have an iPhone 4 and I’m waiting for the release of the iPhone 5S before I … Continue reading

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BBM For All – Offical Announcement

That’s right BBM fans — the iconic mobile social network will begin rolling out for Android and iPhone customers around the world from September 21. Soon, you’ll be able to easily connect with friends on different platforms. As you may … Continue reading

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Data Acquisition hardware

I know I have talked about this before but I recently rediscovered how incredibility cost effective current mobile device are as data acquisition devices. The world is scrambling to create an “Internet of connected things” with custom built hardware, but … Continue reading

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Eclipse and egit

“egit” is a free plugin for Eclipse that allows you to connect to the GIT version control system. Once connected, you can view annotations associated with code changes on a line by line basis. When working in large teams it … Continue reading

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What level of communication do we really need?

I recently spent a few years working on and selling equipment that allows people to have HD video conferences with the ability to share documents. Then I found myself as part of an elite team of software designers working on … Continue reading

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Agile – If it were only that easy….

The Agile method of software development has been around for a few years now and it looks like it has settled in for the long haul. Agile by itself is not a bad method, but it can be abused as … Continue reading

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