Last weekend was the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I gave a talk on the Internet of Things and building apps using the Perl programming language as the connective tissue between devices and web applications. I covered the basics on how you interface devices to the real-world. I also… Continue reading Internet of Things Talk at Carnegie Mellon University
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Thank You, Steve Jobs
My parents saved up Campbell’s Soup labels and gave them to my school. For whatever rational, the school would get computers from Apple based on the number of soup labels collected. We got a lab of Apple II’s, then came along the IIe, IIgs, and finally the Macintosh. I spent most of my early time on the Apple… Continue reading Thank You, Steve Jobs
Top 100 “Internet of Things” Thinkers
We all love lists and some lists are really cool to be on. Postcapes selected me as one of the Top 100 Thinkers in the emerging field of the “Internet of Things”. They based their decision on many criteria, but I think the one item that sets me a part is my charisma (CHA of 16 is nothing… Continue reading Top 100 “Internet of Things” Thinkers
Keynote Speech at Web of Things 2011
I had the distinct privilege to be invited to give a keynote speech at the Web of Things Workshop 2011 at Pervasive 2011 in San Francisco on June 12, 2011. The perspective of my presentation will be from my vantage point of being involved day-to-day working on Internet of Things projects with ioBridge and how we turned projects… Continue reading Keynote Speech at Web of Things 2011
ThingSpeak: Building My Own Twitter (for Things)
Over the past several months I have been working on software to allow “things” to form social networks and send status updates via the Internet. At first glance this may sound very impractical. Hopefully, in a few years this will make more sense as better applications come out. Remember how ridiculous my toaster sounded three years ago?… Continue reading ThingSpeak: Building My Own Twitter (for Things)
