Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

Clouds & XMPP: A match made in heaven?

Friday, August 1st, 2008

It has been a few days since OSCON 2008 has drawn to a close, and the two topics that interested me most have made a few appearances on the all knowing web. One of the two topics is cloud computing. No surprise there as I gave a presentation about it ...

Flex AIR Drop Box Prototype

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

In my spare time I've been working on a prototype for an Adobe Flex/AIR Drop Box, based on the .Net Drop Box Beta we recently released for KnowledgeTreeLive. Being new to Flex and AIR, I started off slowly with a couple simple PoC's. The first was a drag-and-drop tool which, with ...

ProcessMaker, Easy to Use Open Source Workflow & Business Process Management

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Brian Reale and his team at Colosa launched their very cool ProcessMaker product this week. ProcessMaker is a commercial open source Workflow / Business Process Management (BPM) software tool designed for medium-sized organizations and is designed to allow a business or process expert with no programming experience to model and ...

The Tyranny of Social Networking

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

So many apps, so little time... Is it possible to keep them all happy? twitter me blog doppler LinkedIn facebook

KnowledgeTree on the Mac

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

We don't yet officially support running the KnowledgeTree server on Macs due to complications around getting all of KnowledgeTree's dependancies working on OS X. In particular, OpenOffice.org's dependancy on X11 (and not native Aqua) makes putting together an easy to install, commercially supported stack quite complicated. (A native Aqua port of OpenOffice.org is ...

Data in the Cloud

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Amazon have announced the next piece of the puzzle for enterprise application cloud computing: Amazon SimpleDB, the database in the cloud. SimpleDB is a quasi-relational database accessed via web services. You can grow your datamodel and data on the fly without worrying about indexing, storage capacity etc. All the underlying ...

KnowledgeTreeLive Architecture Webinar and Storage, Language Pack Updates

Friday, November 16th, 2007

I recently participated in a webinar conducted by rPath as part of their Webinar Series. The webinar focussed on how we had built out KnowledgeTreeLive, our on-demand document management software, using Amazon's EC2 and virtual appliances. rPath have a recording of the webinar available on their website. On the subject of ...

rPath Software as a Service Webinar

Monday, November 12th, 2007

I'll be participating in a webinar tomorrow, organized by rPath, on the topic of virtual appliances and software as a service. Phil Wainewright, strategist for emerging software industry trends and author of the ZDNet Software as Services blog, will also present his perspective on virtual appliances as a route ...

We’ve come so far already…

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

KnowledgeTree has kept me insanely busy since we started commercializing such that this is the first bit of time I’ve had to fill everyone in on our conquests in the sales channel. We now have so many commercial customers from a multitude of industries across the globe. The learning curve ...

Integrate with the KnowledgeTree Webservice using Borland Delphi

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Bjarte Kalstveit Vebjørnsen has contributed a port of the KTWSAPI library to Borland Delphi. The KTWSAPI is an object model based on the functions exposed via the KnowledgeTree SOAP Webservice. Bjarte has created a port of the PHP KTWSAPI object model to Delphi 2006 using components from the Indy Project. His ...