The Open Containers Initiative announced (Community Rallies Behind Open Container Initiative) in late July that 14 new companies had joined the initiative and that Docker had donated their base container format as a starting point for the standard. Supporters of the initiative include AT&T, Oracle, Twitter,
The life cycle of web technologies can be short, and even those technologies supported by major players – like, for example, Microsoft Silverlight – can have relatively short lifespans of a few years, before something else becomes more popular. However, as a tech entrepreneur, you’ve
Several years ago, we bought a copy of Camtasia. It is the premiere demonstration software, but very expensive to put on several computers for occasional use, and relatively cumbersome for what it does. Definite learning curve! Instead of buying a new copy of Camtasia, we’re
At R7 Solutions, in addition to GeoRoom, GeoIntelis (and soon to be announced GeoDomis), a good percentage of what we do is to provide professional services. We provide software engineering, business process design and strategic IT consulting. Just like any professional services firm, that means
It isn’t difficult to define the most useful aspect of the Xobni add-in for Outlook for me: It automatically puts faces with e-mails, instantly, for people I’ve met, people I’ve never met – and, crucially – for people I’ve met just a few times or
Writing this blog can be very helpful. In writing recently about my personal productivity tips, it occurred to me that I was really using too many “to do” processes. Moving stuff from my GTD Master List to a daily list was a pain and inevitably
If you’re like me, you’ve got 15 different passwords for 15 different online services. There are online banking passwords, website hosting passwords, online store passwords, server and e-mail passwords. Everything is online. What’s worse, you might not be like me, and you might have one
You probably know this already, but keeping your website up to date, edited and organized can be a challenge for even the well-funded startup venture. There’s just so much going on that it can be hard for an entrepreneur to make the time to get