Home Automation Hub Reviews
Home automation is made a zillion times more powerful when the devices are connected to the web. A proper hub or gateway achieves this by routing your device (Zwave/Zigbee/Xbee and so on) traffic to/from the web. So we ask, which home automation hub is the cheapest, easiest to use and most …
Should I Use A Rule Engine?
I find myself explaining what a rule engine is very often. Here’s my answer, and some thoughts on where a rule engine can fit into your technology plan in really ground breaking ways. What is a Rule Engine? Funny question because rules are basically a part of every software, in some …
Automation Software List: Event Driven/IOT/Workflow/Rule Engines
Here’s a huge list that I will try to keep updated. It contains software/tools that have reach some degree of usefulness and/or buzz in the Event Driven Architecture/IOT/ Workflow Automation/Orchestration/Rule/Workflow category. It’s not exhaustive but should give you some alternative tools to consider. It doesn’t include BPM specific tools since …
We Drank Blue Magic
This happened last week. It pleased us so! For those 21 and over only, of course.
Let’s Be Lazy-Productive: Class-Based Generic Views
We, programmers, are lazy. We despise repetitive tasks and are bored by monotonous project requirements. As much as possible, we automate processes and use abstractions for patterns that we always use in our work. And yet, despite being lazy, we also want to be efficient and productive. Can we really …
Projecting Your Voice to Land a Career
As a recruiter, I am fortunate to meet many people on a daily basis. One of the things that tends to come through is the ability to pick up on trends. Business Insider recently added insight into something that I’ve been noticing among so many entry-level candidates lately. It’s called “vocal …
Science Backs Up Bixly!
I love this article that just came out on Slashdot entitled: Happy Software Developers Solve Problems Better Checkout the article on Slashdot. There were 42 participants, so I can’t claim this is an end-all, especially considering the bias towards novel results and studies that can’t be reproduced in academia. But! I …
Some Thoughts to Ponder
I recently spent some time in discussions, chats, and brain-picking sessions with some technologists of different backgrounds and vocations. One theme that seemed to run through was different thoughts on security. We know that from a demographic standpoint, many technologists believe in a combination of as much personal freedom for …