November 2009
1 post
Paying for the Flight to the Cloud
ROI for moving to the cloud was another topic discussed at CloudCamp Indy. A major advantage the cloud provides is the use of as many processors as needed for as long as it takes to complete a given process. In other words, a business may lease processing power as needed, then can relinquish the processors for another business to lease. This pay per use model allows businesses to 1) reduce the...
Nov 13th
October 2009
3 posts
CloudCampIndy
I attended my first CloudCamp in Indianapolis yesterday. The event highlighted a few local companies and their service offerings. There were approximately 6-10 self-proclaimed “experts” on the topic of cloud computing. After the initial presentations, we were allowed to sit in on one of three breakout sessions. The breakout topics covered: 1) What is cloud computing? 2) Developing for...
Oct 29th
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Semester Project Update
Since my vision of a world calendar is a bit too ambitous for a semester project, I am going to help improve the website of an existing calendar service while I learn more about how all this works. I will be teaming with the editor and publisher of aroundindy.com, Robert Burchfield. I will research various site modifications to determine which have the greatest potential for improving his site’s...
Oct 12th
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CIT49900 Emerging Technologies Semester Project
Imagine a site that could organize all the events of the world on a central calendar.  A browser add-on recognizes dates and calendar data on the web & offers to place it on the central calendar. Individuals add their personal events, appointments, meetings, tasks and due dates to the calendar privately or publicly. Every person, group, organization and government agency publishes their event...
Oct 5th
September 2009
2 posts
1 tag
CIT49900
I am researching the standards for calendar data exchange formats for a project in my Emerging Technologies course with Dr. Thomas Ho. So far I’m finding iCal is the most frequently mentioned standard. I doubt this could be done as my project due to its vastness, but I am interested in creating a calendar for the entire world to use by filtering out what is important to them. This calendar...
Sep 30th
Coursework
Enrolled at IUPUI, I am taking 4 classes. Statistics Workplace Communications Operating Systems & Emerging Technologies
Sep 28th