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Re: Teaser - PowerWF Embedded Shell

xcud — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:27:10 -0000

We released it. Here's the link: http://blog.powerwf.com/post/211631128/powerwf-...

Re: PowerCLI Stack

xcud — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:46:54 -0000

Firstly, you're absolutely correct that the VMWare Community Forums are excellent. The experts there are brilliant and responsive.

The question is, "what's the advantage of a site like StackOverflow over the existing forums?".

The forum user experience was designed from the ground up to facilitate conversation. This is evident in any VMWare Community forum thread (e.g. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/232258?tst...). It's a threaded conversation which starts with a question, one or more people engage the questioner, a conversation happens, an answer is eventually formulated and accepted, then the questioner thanks the answerer. Reputation points awarded by a questioner to the winning answer and helpful answers. The paradigm of awarding points for answers is bolted onto the forum system. It's a very cool feature and more importantly it establishes a marketplace where the goods are questions and answers and the currency is reputation.

From what I can tell the StackOverflow sites were designed from the ground up to facilitate this paradigm/marketplace. This is evident on any StackOverflow thread (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/504208/how-t...). It starts with a single person posing a question. Almost instantly 10s (or sometimes 100s) of people simultaneously engage the questioner either by submitting their own answer to compete in the marketplace of answers or by voting on existing answers, comments, and even the question itself. In addition to streamlining the Q&A marketplace the stack sites have done other things smartly like fully implementing tagging to make filtering easier and allow for easier search engine indexing, providing a rich set of earnable 'badges' and reputation awards, and leveraging OpenID for authentication (think single sign-on for the Internet).

Re: U-verse

xcud — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:12:59 -0000

Essentially it's TV and Phone over the Internet. They run the data over a fiberoptic line to your home. Theoretical speeds in the 25MB/s range. Most of the bandwidth is reserved for TV. The phone and web surfing don't take up much most of the time. https://uverse.att.com/

Re: it's official

xcud — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:27:27 -0000

Thanks Matt. I do too. As does my new biz partner. We'll be pouring in whatever it takes in terms of resources to get it Enterprise-ready and bring it to market. I'll get a screensharing session going in the first two weeks to catch you and Anger up on some of the big changes in the app.

Re: it's official

xcud — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:35:39 -0000

Absolutely. Let's carve out some time in the first two weeks. I want to get you caught up. There's been a massive upgrade in the target functionality of the Pipes concept since the last time I briefed you on what I wanted to do. Think complete programmatic control over the data in between retrieval and push. Combines, filters, loops, conditionals; there's nothing out of bounds. Complete control using visual controls AND/OR code-behind. It's like the difference between just a windowed OS and a windowed OS with a shell. On top of that there will be at least one other pillar of product development focus that I haven't begun talking about yet.