December 10th, 2009 | By Joel Dehlin | No Comments »
Thank you for the repsonses to my last post where I asked for PHP developers to help us this next month. We’re off and running!
We have another project where we’re working on some apps for the Blackberry. If you have experience in developing Blackberry apps and some time this next month, please contact edwardsj at ldschurch.org.
We’d love your help! Great stuff happening the next couple of months! Stay tuned!
December 4th, 2009 | By Joel Dehlin | 1 Comment »
Back in May, I posted about our desire to have engineers and designers in the LDS community help us develop software. I referred to this as LDS Open source and took a little flak.
Since then we’ve had a healthy uptick in the people helping us get work done.
We have 50 active community developers and that grows a little each month.
We have an immediate, high priority need. We’re looking for people with PHP experience to help us with a prototype Young Single Adult (YSA) web site. If you have that experience and have some time over the next month, we need you.
Please email edwardsj at ldschurch.org.
September 22nd, 2009 | By Joel Dehlin | 2 Comments »
Just posted this on LDSMediaTalk about MormonsMadeSimple.
If you haven’t seent these videos, check them out!
September 15th, 2009 | By Joel Dehlin | No Comments »
T-Mobile looks to be eye’ing Sprint.
September 15th, 2009 | By Joel Dehlin | 7 Comments »
Adobe to acquire Omniture. I’m scratching my head on this one. Josh James (Omniture CEO) is surely a sharp guy and will become a VP at Adobe. And Omniture has some great engineering resource here in Utah so that’s a great pickup.
Why Adobe needs to make a play in the web analytics market, especially with Google offering free services, I don’t know.
September 9th, 2009 | By Joel Dehlin | 21 Comments »
I recenty had a friend tell me that he would “never work in .net again.” He’d rather find a different job than work in .net. Literally. He’s a big fan of rails.
What do YOU think?
If you’ve done extensive programming in both languages, tell us if you feel the same way. How much more productive are you in one versus the other?
August 30th, 2009 | By Joel Dehlin | 7 Comments »
I met with VMWare this week. They own ninety-something percent of the virtualization market. They’ve now purchased SpringSource. SpringSource is all about simplifying Java development for the enterprise. We use VMWare virtualization heavily and our Java stack is based on SpringSource’s.
Is this acquisition a good thing?
It depends. On one hand, it’s an interesting opportunity to more seamlessly integrate virtualization into the development desktop. A developer should be able to use whichever desktop they choose and replicate the production environment as much as possible locally. Then a push of a button should send a virtual machine up to the next environment (test, staging, etc.). Extend this ability to sending your virtual machine to be tested or even hosted in the cloud, either intentionally or automatically.
If VMWare wins over the mindshare of the cloud providers then this has beautiful implications for disaster recovery, horizontal scaling, peak offloading and even data center outsourcing itself.
So what could be bad? Two potential problems.
First, VMWare has more developers than Microsoft Windows had at its peak. It’s a big company and getting bigger. How able will it be to avoid the bureacracy and bloat mentality that ended up hurting Microsoft and other technology companies who went through this kind of growth?
More importantly, how benevolent will VMWare be? They’re basically a monopoly in the virtualization space–at least today until Microsoft catches up. If they end up owning the data centers, internal and external, it’s much easier for them to call the shots.
Will we see the same behavior we have seen from Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and others? Will we be held hostage by exorbitant maintenance fees? Will “optional, but really required” add-on prices go through the roof. Will service levels decline in non-contract years?
We shall see. Might be wise to root for Xen or even Microsoft to keep up in this space.
June 20th, 2009 | By Joel Dehlin | 10 Comments »
Mormon Radio now has an iPhone app available on the iPhone app store.
This is the first fruits of our community development effort.
Congrats all!!
May 24th, 2009 | By Joel Dehlin | 3 Comments »
Recently somebody hacked into a web site operated by the State of Virginia, deleted the records of over 8 million people and left a note on the homepage, demanding $10M to restore the data.
We’re talking about 0’s and 1’s here.
It’s not the first time hackers have used data for extortion. Typically they threaten to release potentially damaging data, whereas this time it’s closer to kidnapping where they’re offering to return the data for a price.
This event underscores the importance of regular backups and disaster recovery. Granted, the brutes should never have had the opportunity to get into the web site in the first place, but a secure perimeter won’t solve the problem if it’s an inside job. Appropriate seperation of duties and regular testing of data (and system) restoration is critical for peace of mind when it comes to making sure your data is safely guarded.
Luckily, the state of Virginia apparently had appropriate backup and restoration precedures in place.
Do you?
Joel Dehlin is the father of seven delightful children and the husband of one patient, wonderful woman. His primary love is being with his kids, but he doubles as the Chief Information Officer for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. More about Joel...
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