Archive for Dec 2012


Programming the Cloud With Persistent Data Objects

People ask me all the time why I decided to create my own language, KRL, rather than using an existing one. This is my latest thinking on that score.
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Forgetting to Water the Christmas Tree? How Personal Clouds Saved Christmas

A personal clouds with a cloud-based operating system provides an easy way to take water level signals from an Electric Imp to automatically notify a homeowner via SMS that his Christmas tree needs to be watered.
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Sessions @ The Leonardo with Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla will be in Utah on Thursday Dec 20 to speak at The Leonardo.
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When Services Die

What happens when your favorite service dies? Will your data live on? Not if you're dependent on cloud-based services you don't control.
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Hacking the Philips Hue with KRL

Philips Hue is a connected lighting system. No sooner did I see it that I wanted to control my lights from my personal cloud. This blog post is about my initial experiments with controlling Hue using KRL.
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