Archive for the ‘Workplace’ Category

Izeni time

Well, if you don’t blog about forming a new company and getting ready to launch a new product, what do you blog about? I guess when you’re busy, that’s what it takes to get you posting again.
I don’t have much to say right now, but we’ve worked our guts out, spent much of our [...]

More work stuff

Wow, landing contract work can be time consuming. Sometimes it takes more work to find the contracts than to fill the commitments. In the last couple weeks I was able to land a few good deals and get few solid leads, but I had to let a big one fall through so I [...]

August 27, 2008 • Posted in: Change, Life, Workplace • No Comments

Putting on a brave face

Scary and exciting. That’s how I would describe my new occupational path. I’m going to be accepting contracting work while I look for a more stable arrangement (read: get-a-job). I want to be able to look around and get to know some of the many businesses in the valley that have need [...]

August 15, 2008 • Posted in: Change, Life, Workplace • One Comment

Ekiga, Asterisk and VPNs

Things are always harder then they’re supposed to be. Plugging in a SIP client to Asterisk should be easy, right? Well, it is, if everything is just perfect. I took a few notes and a few screenshots to help others if they find this fairly typical setup is more difficult then it should [...]

October 27, 2006 • Posted in: Asterisk, Miscellaneous, Workplace • Comments Closed

13.2 million dollars

Looks like Digium gets funded. This can only mean good things for the development of Asterisk. It’s interesting to see that Digium has been in the black for a while:
Digium won’t disclose any specific data on its financial performance, but says it has been profitable since 2002, generating 100 percent growth in revenues each year [...]

August 8, 2006 • Posted in: Asterisk, Open Source, Workplace • Comments Closed

DevUtah’s February Geek Dinner

DevUtah’s February Geek Dinner will be held at the Miller Business Innovation Center on Wednesday February 22 at 6 PM.
David Spann and Alistair Cockburn will lead a discussion on “Introducing Agile to the Organization”. If you’ve heard of Agile methodologies but can’t get others in your organization interested; or if you’ve been a member [...]

February 16, 2006 • Posted in: Miscellaneous, Workplace • Comments Closed

A Watershed for Open Source

Businessweek’s article might not be front page stuff, but it is cool when my dad and mom hear about Open Source. That only happens when biz week writes about it. It’s not like they read slashdot.
Now, how do I get some of that money?