By Gavin Stevens on 6/4/2008 4:26 PM

Well, CallOnACT! is now available.. It's been a fun project to work on so far, and were just getting started.  Sometimes I wish programming weren't so time consuming and you could work more on things that matter instead of all the tiny little details and problems you have to discover and fix whenever you design new software.  It's challenging though, I definatly feel a sense of accomplishment after producing a product that people can get a lot out of.  That's the reward really, being able to write software that can help other do more.

Software is one of the few things that I can do once, and then people can benefit from my work to do their own work.  I've always written software with the end-user in mind.  A lot of developers don't do that very well, the type of mind it requires to build complex software applications is normally not the same mind that can't think like the user, to understand their wants and frustrations, and to know how to translate that into a highly usable application that just makes...

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By Gavin Stevens on 10/16/2007 4:34 PM

So, the day has come, Microsoft releases Unified Communications..  I decided not to goto the release in SF, simply because I have too much stuff to do, and there is no reason to spend money to go there.  There are plenty of web based resources that I research and study to learn more about UC. 

I read a pretty good white paper by Nortel, called "Hyperconnectivity: an unstoppable force of change."

http://www.nortel.com/hyperconnectivity/media/hyperconnectivity_white_paper.pdf

This is definetly where things are headed, soon everything will be connected.  For better or worse its coming...  10-20 years from now most people will have never driven a car without a navigation system to guide them.  Imagine if the thing broke and you could no longer find your way around because you had become so dependant on it. 

The waves keep coming...

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By Gavin Stevens on 10/3/2007 4:33 PM

http://www.microsoft.com/uc/default.mspx

So, Microsoft is going to try to get into telephony.  I'm sure they will do quite well in the endevour.  They already have a good foothold in the Enterprise Server market and alot of companies use an Exchange / Outlook combo deployment.  This new initiative promises to provide VoIP style functionaity without companies having to scrap thier PSTn system and start over from scratch. 

Bill and Company are having a big launch day in SF:

Join Bill Gates & Jeff Raikes at Unified Communications Launch Join Bill Gates and Jeff Raikes as they kick off the worldwide Unified Communications Launch 2007 in San Francisco on October 16. This free, daylong event includes a keynote with demos, technical sessions, the Unified Communications Starter Kit, and a partner pavilion. See how Microsoft solutions help streamline communications between people and organizations.

I'm...

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