WordPress to Static: Simplifying My Blog
Introduction On July 2, 2015, I published my first blog post—an article about the importance of owning your own domain and publishing your work on a platform you control. At the time, my site ran…
Digital Transformation Building Blocks
This post describes technology building blocks to enable digital transformation at Utah Valley University, but the principles and concepts are universal. Utah Valley University is digitally transforming. The faculty and staff are excited about the…
TAN: Trailer Area Network
Introduction A friend of mine, Scott Lemon founder and CTO of Wovyn, and I were discussing my travel trailer API and he coined the term, trailer area network or TAN. My TAN is going to be…
Travel Trailer API
Introduction I have recently purchased a travel trailer and desire to instrument and automate it. I want to control and monitor all of its systems using my iPhone or other mobile devices. When I am out…
Indie Educational Technology
Introduction Last week I spent some time at Davidson College discussing Personal APIs and Indie Educational Technology with faculty, students, and staff from several other institutions of higher education and commercial entities, Known and Reclaim Hosting, that facilitate…
myDoorbell: High Level Design
Introduction In my previous post I described the resources available in the wiring box where myDoorbell will be installed. As illustrated in the following figure, the available resources consist of a 16 Volt AC source and…
myCoreDump
Introduction I hope you enjoy this core dump! The thoughts are so interrelated and connected it is difficult to optimize the presentation so you may need to apply your own defragmentation to get it. In…
myDoorbell: A Learning Adventure
Introduction After being a university chief information officer (CIO) for more than a decade, I decided to refresh my technical skills acquired through formal education and practice as an electrical engineer. I learn best by…
Domains, Personal APIs, and Portfolios
Introduction In addition to the traditional educational experience students at Brigham Young University receive, we want them to acquire skills, techniques, and tools that facilitate their current and future learning. We believe students should learn…
Freedom via Abstraction
At Brigham Young University (BYU) we have been developing a University API to expose the functionality of a reasonably generic educational institution, while consuming a very specific set of underlying technologies. Our generic institution has…