dossier done
Our adoption dossier is done (excluding USCIS approval)! Woot! Now to wait.
Month: August 2012
next bglug meeting: topic ‘raspberry pi’; speaker jordan keyes; 1900 (7p) 20 september @collexion hackerspace
After several months, the Bluegrass Linux User Group (see also G+ page) is resuming regular meetings in conjunction With Collexion – a hackerspace in Lexington KY. Our first (next) topic is “The Raspberry Pi“, presented by Jordan Keyes (creator of twil.tv (also on youtube: http://youtube.com/twildottv)), at 1845 (6:45p) at Collexion. We’ll plan to “start” at…
restful webservices
My friend Steven recently wrote about linguistics in webservices. In it he postulates that since all “good code” should resemble speech, webservices should use linguistically-tied approaches to their APIs. In short, it’s an article on RESTful websites being used in a linguistically-understandable way. For example: http://searchengine.com/search/keyword1/keyword2/not:keyword3 should run your query against the search engine, so…
rebooting the bglug
It’s been several months, but we are planning to have another Bluegrass Linux User Group meeting next month! It looks like there’s a good space to meet near downtown, so while the exact Saturday has not been picked yet, we are looking to reboot the LUG in a few weeks. If anyone has suggestions for…
the failure of the technical sales cycle in enterprise software
Specifically in the realm of data center management and automation software, but applicable to all other niches, sales people are too focused on this quarter, their commission, and getting ink on the page. In the broader context of the software companies producing tools / products, there is a general focus of getting to the next customer – forgetting…
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certifications and dependencies
Last week I participated in a beta class for HP’s new Cloud Service Automation 3.0 product release (ok, so it’s a prerelease, and “product” is a strong term). 3.0 is a full rewrite from 2.x, so there is no upgrade path. Also, not everything that “appears” to be in place OOB is actually working –…
dossier
Had a great update this afternoon – one document we were convinced was wrong for our dossier has been verified to be acceptable! Woohoo.