Author Archives: ewilliams

People and companies that need websites start off easily enough.  They start designing their site and pretty soon they choose a domain name and build it. Soon the new website is up! And it looks alright!  There are a lot of anticipated features but these aren’t yet filled.  Both content and functionality needs to be […]

Hello!  I diverge here from my usual technical talk.  One’s interests change and now I am starting to think and read about planning the User’s eXperience / Interaction. UX/UI.   You have to think, after all, about who is using your software and what they feel! Nonetheless it is good to be rooted in one’s own […]

It’s Not Done Yet! Ha Ha Ha! The Data Storage System that we created using Doctrine doesn’t allow for articles that are longer than 256 characters!  Can’t we use the ZODB that comes with Python instead? There is no easy .PDF output like ReportLab in PHP.  We know ReportLab too!  We have to write our […]

People might think that I have it made.  In fact I do!  After all I have just invented and launched Localpod, the next great new device! But rule One of business, I think, is “Don’t rest on your laurels.”  Don’t think that everything is alright just because things are going well today.  Or, to quote […]

LocalPod v1.0 is out and ready for your purchase!  This is an ‘extranet hotspot!’  Think of it as an Internet router with a nice LCD touch screen on top.  The device consists of the Intel Galileo Board Gen2, a Vizic Technologies Touch LCD Screen, and a Intel Centrino 135 Wifi and Bluetooth Radio Card.  Missing […]

There are so many wonderful Apps available right now; and the Internet Cloud is Blossoming!  Who is taking care of the computer infrastructure in our communities?

There are a lot of ways to build software.  One picks and chooses different solutions as different needs become evident.  For speed, PHP or an Object-Oriented development environment like Ruby on Rails or Django are good.  But if one needs the monolithic production environment for an editing program, one must choose a toolkit like Plone, […]

I’m very excited about my new project.  I call it PHPZope but it is really not Zope; so I’ve got to change the name. I have written a PHP Extension to take a pickled Python object and turn it into something that PHP can deal with. Its still fairly primitive software: I have a lot […]

People look at my resume and exclaim that I have worked at a lot of companies.  This has happened for various reasons.  Recently I began to look at what I actually “brought home” from each company as a new tip of the trade.  Here is the partial list: Beyond Compare, a fabulous tool for searching […]

It’s a nice thing to be able to plan out your expenses and expenditures for your Information Technology venture.  But your Norton subscription expires or you just have to have a copy of Sublime Text editor and out goes $170.  I realize that I am supposed to match outflows with inflows but although I have […]