So what’s this all about? You may have heard me talking about this during the spring, but with all of the activity and talks during March, I’m making myself sit down and put some of it together.
The base concept of this series of posts is that if you want to be be your most effective in architecting and implementing solutions today, you have to take advantage of all the resources available. Today there’s so much going on and things move so fast that we often either just look at the items that are top on the buzz list, or we reach for the tried and true because we know it works and we just need to Get Stuff Done.
What I’m hoping to do here is take a number of technologies and tie them together in a way that’s different from the mainstream of just Desktop/Laptop development or Web Browser development. My goal is to pull in some of the custom hardware that’s available today at very reasonable prices and tie that into some of the web services (lower case on that phrase) and use that to put systems together that can actually help me stay aware, in touch, and connected with the information and people I’m interested in. Plus doing something like this helps be justify blocking out time to implement some of the things I’ve been talking about for a while. I’ve had a number of people asking me to come speak on things such as Smart Environments, Ambient Information, Cloud Computing, and Adaptive Architecture – so in doing this I’ll both have some follow on information for them to continue the conversations that get started, and I’ll have the hardware and services put in place for examples.
So that being said – what are you going to get out of it? Hopefully some ideas and inspiration. Maybe some techniques. I’m going to be doing the articles live – I have a rough outline of the first part of the series that I want to cover, but I can definitely tell you that where it ends up will be influenced by comments or observations from the blog here and through other mechanisms. Let me know what you think. Let me know what’s interesting. And let me know when I put my foot in my mouth (because I will sooner or later.)
So enough about the conceptual. Next up, the first batch of technologies.
