Llamawerx Announces 1st International Engagement

October 24th, 2006

Abloco Wireless Solutions, located in the Netherlands, has selected Llamawerx to redesign their website and focus their message on the newly released iSpecto product. iSpecto, an innovative wireless camera, combines best-of-breed components including video, audio, wireless, motion detection, solar and remote management into a unique video solution.“Llamawerx is incredibly happy to be working with Abloco. Not only are we excited about working with our first international client, but we’re really excited about iSpecto. By combining state-of-the-art components into a great package, I think they have an outstanding platform for creating video surveillance solutions,” said Llamawerx co-founder Doug Griswold.

Marcel Staaks of Abloco Wireless Solutions states, “Frankly, our current website doesn’t reflect our company’s core competency. We compete throughout Europe and a Dutch language site doesn’t reach as many clients as we would like. By partnering with Llamawerx, we will create a multi-lingual site capable of educating the community about iSpecto and our unique value proposition.”

The website is only the first step in the Abloco/Llamawerx relationship. According to Griswold, “Abloco’s roadmap calls for additional services in the iSpecto suite. In the future, we expect to work with Abloco to define and develop a web-based “dashboard” supporting the delivery of their services.” Once the product gains traction in Europe, Abloco plans to introduce it into the US market.

Do You Squidoo?

October 17th, 2006

Squidoo is an online community of lensmasters. What is a lensmaster you might ask? Well first you need to understand what a lens is. A lens is a one-page webpage dedicated to one subject. A lensmaster creates the lens for others to see through. Since everyone is an expert on something, everyone is a potential lensmaster. Seth Godin, author of numerous bestsellers founded Squidoo with the goal of bringing human recommendations to search while paying money to the lensmasters (or their charity). Oh yeah, have a little fun along the way.Embracing Squidoo, I’ve created my first lens Website Design: CSS. I know, it’s nerdy, but it’s my first attempt. Like other lenses, I try to provide some nuggets of knowledge, some important web links and a couple of books. Click on some ads or buy a book and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society receives a donation.

Can Squidoo help you? Can you reach new audiences? Expand your brand? Connect with others? Or just do a little something for the greater good. If you need a hand getting started, just contact Llamawerx today.

Website Redesign: Llamawerx

October 9th, 2006

We’ve redesigned our own website. Tell us what you think.

Introducing Softmaxx M2M Solutions

September 20th, 2006

Today I had lunch with a former Ericsson associate busy forming his own company, Softmaxx. The team at Softmaxx has created a middleware package streamlining wireless communications between embedded machines and application servers. If you are looking to simplify wireless communications, then be sure to check out Softmaxx.For more information, visit the Softmaxx website.

Free Software Development Tools

August 28th, 2006

Programmers whose skills have stagnated often ask us what technologies or tools they should learn. My approach has always been that a programmer can learn a new tool if they have a solid programming foundation – but deciding which tool can be challenging. Yesterday’s programmers would envy the high-quality, free tools that commercial and open source communities deliver today. Step #1 is finding the right tool.Programming Environments
Eclipse www.eclipse.org, www.eclipse.org/downloads
Netbeans www.netbeans.org, www.netbeans.org/downloads/index.html
Cygwin www.cygwin.com
Sun Studio developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/downloads/index.jsp

Databases
PostgreSQL www.postgresql.org, www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.1.4
MySql www.mysql.com, dev.mysql.com
Oracle www.oracle.com, www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/oracle10g/index.html

Java Language
Java java.sun.com, developers.sun.com/resources/downloads.html
Apache www.apache.org
JBoss Application Server www.jboss.com, labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossas/download
Tomcat Servlet Engine tomcat.apache.org/index.html

Bundles/Operating Systems
WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySql, PHP) www.wampserver.com/en
Linux Live CDs www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
Mandriva Linux www.mandriva.com/en/download
RedHat Fedora Linux www.redhat.com/fedora
Solaris www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

Other Tools
Vim (a VI clone) www.vim.org, www.vim.org/download.php
Emacs www.gnu.org/software/emacs

Web References
HTML www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
CSS www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
JavaScript www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp
PHP www.php.net