Here’s a fun little JavaScript experiment… go to:
Watch the boot sequence… and… ta da… you’ve got a Linux root prompt! Use basic Linux commands, edit files with vi, compile apps in C using “tcc”.
May 10
The End of the “Skype as Bandit” Era (Featured Blog)
And so it ends… Skype was always always a fun company to write about because they were always a bit of a rogue. The scrappy little startup that took on the megacorps of the telecom industry… and won in so many ways… look at their leading % of int…
Apr 24
Deep Tech Dives Into Cloud Availability In Light Of Amazon’s EC2/EBS Problems From Joyent and enStratus
With Amazon’s ongoing struggles with part of their cloud, I’ve obviously been watching closely, given that I work for a company that provides a cloud for communication applications (hosted almost entirely on our own global carrier-grade infrastructure). Watching Amazon’s status site, they continue to not be entirely back in action a couple …
Apr 22
Two New Amazon.com Reviews of Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks
I’ve been very humbled and pleased to see two new reviews of Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks show up on Amazon.com this month. Both are lengthy and both quite positive: Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks, by Mario Camillen on April 3, 2011 Required Reading for UC and VoIP Professionals, by…
Apr 20
Use Node.js to Build Your Own SMS or IM Interface to Twitter
Would you like to create your own SMS interface to Twitter? To be able to post your own tweets via SMS? Or would you like to have an IM interface to Twitter using Jabber, GoogleTalk, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc?
And would you like to do all this …
Apr 16
Video: How To Create a Simple DocBook document using oXygen XML editor
Recently I’ve needed to get back into creating some DocBook documents and needed to refresh my knowledge of the latest tools. Back about 10 years ago, I did a great amount with DocBook and spoke about single-source publishing at conferences and created a few tools and vimrc macros. However, since that time I’ve …
Apr 11
And So The Groklaw Era Draws To A Close May 16, 2011…
And so must all good things come to an end… Pamela Jones announced over the weekend that she would be ending new posts to Groklaw on May 16, 2011, the eighth anniversary of the site.
For those of us who spent a good …
Apr 04
Video: Douglass Crockford explains “The JSON Saga”
While this video is from back in July 2009, it’s a great story around how JSON came to be and has some solid lessons in it for people developing new data formats:
Video: Douglas Crockford — The JSON Saga
Yahoo! thankfully provided a …
Apr 02
Meeting My Reviewer with the Oddest Review Headline ("Offal")
I admit that I never get tired of meeting face-to-face with people who have read the Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks and I enjoy particularly meeting with those folks who have taken the time out of their busy lives to write up a review of my book. I do read…
Mar 31
SecureLogix Releases Report: Voice And Unified Communications State of Security 2011
By way of the Voice of VOIPSA blog, I learned that SecureLogix had formally released their "Voice & Unified Communications: State of Security Report 2011". I saw a preview of this report in one of the final sessions at the Enterprise Connect event at the beginning of March and the…
