Found Items for station crimsoncomputing 2012-02-18T19:26:36Z 2012-02-18T19:26:36Z Crimson Computing 2010-08-03T23:28:30Z 2010-08-03T23:28:30Z

San Francisco, CA, August 3, 2010 – Crimson Computing Solutions Inc, made available an early bird release of their flagship product Crimson Social Solutions Suite . The early bird release will help system integrators and portal developers to gain customization expertise on the open source platform which promises to add agility to information distribution , content aggregation, e-commerce and marketing requirements for small to medium organizations who aim to establish a global presence. Crimson Computing Solutions Product Evangelist and Director ,Praveen George said that , the source code is open and distributed along with the binaries - we encourage developers to use this as a portal template , thus boosting their productivity and enabling them to develop highly unique web portals in less time.As opposed to using a factory burnt,shrink wrapped product in limited ways , this allows greater developer participation in product development and is ideal for organizations who prefer custom grown solutions to be built leveraging open source licensed code which internal developers can support. A demo installation hosted at http://www.mobchannel.com for review provides endusers of a sneak preview of the features tucked in to the Crimson Social Solutions Suite – as the company prefers it's product to be known. Optional integration with platforms like face book and orkut as well as a game engine would be added to the next revision , the company spoke person announced. The product offers six plugins– Social Media,Social Payments, Social Events, Social Commerce , Social Stations and Social Campaigns. Each of these plugins allow data/functional projections based on language and location , making it possible for organizations to build highly democratic distributed global platforms. The ability to create micro sites and satellite sites allows unique domain names for each projection thus allowing users to access clearly sliced information. The solutions pack can be downloaded from http://mobchannel.sourceforge.net where the full source code is also hosted. Crimson Computing Solutions is an IT solutions and Training provider specialized in boutique application development, banking and electronic payments, content management and e commerce and provides support for customized portal development based on Crimson Social Solutions Suite. Contact Information: Crimson Computing Solutions www.crimsoncomputing.com 408- 439- 7833 accounts@crimsoncomputing.com

Crimson Computing 2010-08-03T23:28:30Z Crimson Computing 2010-03-19T14:09:12Z 2010-03-19T14:09:12Z

Crimson Computing announces launch of J2EE training series San Francisco, CA, March 19, 2010 – Crimson Computing is now offering web based professional J2EE courses in 3 series on Web application Development, Developing Complex Enterprise Projects and Build and Release Engineering, Infrastructure Planning & Cloud Computing respectively. In light of the current economic environment, Crimson Computing will assist people in career transition by providing training at a lower cost. Series I is on Web Application Development and is intended to provide a quick start to JAVA Enterprise Edition, J2EE and will enable one to gain a solid understanding of basic concepts and applications of the tool. The course will be offered starting April 6th and the first session is free of cost. Classes will be on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7:30pm (PST)-9:30pm (PST). Crimson Computing Solutions is an IT solution, training and services provider specialized in boutique application development, banking and electronic payments, content management and ecommerce. Contact Information: Crimson Computing Solutions www.crimsoncomputing.com 408- 493- 3509 training@crimsoncomputing.com

Crimson Computing 2010-03-19T14:09:12Z Crimson Computing 2010-03-26T10:03:42Z 2010-03-26T10:03:42Z

This new series on spring will jumpstart folks who want to be a productive web developer , topics covered include spring core, spring transactions, spring webservice, spring mvc,spring webflog, hibernate , jpa ,jpql, ejb3. For enrollment send an email to training@crimsoncomputing.com.

Crimson Computing 2010-03-26T10:03:42Z Praveen George 2010-04-14T21:40:55Z 2010-04-14T21:40:55Z

I Was never a cloud fanatic, i presumed it is going to be doomed until i started experimenting with Amazon AWS. Amazon has took cloud computing to where its competitors can only dream of. So more power to them. Attending the Amazon Cloud Conference held in SF on April 13th, has given me insights into new ways i can architect a highly elastic system. As Dr Werner Vogels put it , cloud computing has got a way of democratizing the ISV SAAS application provisioning space. I could take my SAAS product and now head on compete with the biggest on the market, no need to worry about the infrastructure costs any more!. No need to worry about whether i would scale. It makes me a more firm believer of "Cottage Software Development" model wherein independent software solutions can be developed by little known foundries and then be launched to match the scale of any goliath out there. Dr Werner's vision of establishing Amazon as a provider of highly elastic cheap resources ,is a social committment that i love from a Technocrat of his stature. Paul cochrane ,Brian Lucas and Mitch Nelson gave very educative use cases where they have used the cloud successfully. Jinesh Varia's blue print best practices for elastic application deployment gave me what i was looking for from the conference, a solid technical outline of when to do what and how.Steve Riley's talk assured the skeptical cloud watchers that security is a serious business and amazon has more to loose than them if they mess up. Jennifer Bouden provided us with successfull scenarious where Amazonians have successfully built cloud ready applications to enable Amazon better serve it's customers and associates. The networking time at the end of the conference definitely helped a lot.

Praveen George 2010-04-14T21:40:55Z Praveen George 2010-07-10T23:58:09Z 2010-07-10T23:58:09Z

Over the years i have observed a few social projects some of them successful and some of them unsuccessful. Interestingly projects that followed processes that mimicked commercial projects had a higher failure rate (or failed to self sustain once the stimulus was withdrawn) than projects that followed no processes at all. Over much thought and deliberation i have pulled together this Six dimensional process approach for Social Projects. I am un ashamed to say there is nothing absolutely new about this, these were drawn from other process frameworks or are improvements of existing ones. My attempt here is to clearly record this as a repeatable process pattern. The process frameworks that i have found to be especially effective in commercial organizations include Waterfall, RUP and Agile Practices (SCRUM & XP). A social project whose effects are visible to the society immediately and are sustainable is what I define as a successful social project. These projects often has a specific target audience , and achieving success immediately is critical for these projects to become fruitful. Neither the staged approach of execution which waterfall promotes nor the iterative approaches of RUP or backlog reduction approach in SCRUM will succeed in such non deterministic social projects. The primary constraint isn't time or cost but social involvement in these projects. It is in this context i wish to introduce the axiom of dimensions and efforts. These at first look are comparable to stages and iterations but both fail to exclude the schedule determinism of tasks and costs that lead to successful completion of the project . Essentially there is a critical path that determines the success and failures of projects. Social projects cannot follow such a deterministic approach on task or cost schedule as they are driven by altruistic interests. A social effort is something i would define as actions focussed on creating a social change. For example actions to improve sanitary conditions in a slum is an effort , Awareness programs for Adult Children of Alcoholics is an effort. Each effort has multiple dimensions and these dimensions evolve together and at some planes they intersect creating boundaries, within the boundaries lies the effort mix and at in it's core the solution evolves and the effort naturally ends and sustains itself when the solution is balanced. The six dimensions in such an effort that needs to be managed are as follows. I've given them the acronym 3CD because of the repeating C,D pattern of their names. Conceive - The effort concept is born and they evolve Define - This dimension drives the scope of the project and evolves Collaborate - Collaboration is a critical dimension , without collaboration social projects will not evolve Design - Design evolves as the effort progresses , for example determining a single design for a sanitary facilities will not help given the chaotic conditions in a slum , a design has to evolve depending on situational awareness Construct - The constructional dimension is only as much important as other dimensions, for example the actual fact of creating flyers for an awareness program is no more critical than getting people to collaborate in such a program. Hence unlike for commercial projects, construction is the least risky dimension and a proper magnitude of other dimensions almost always ensures a successfull construction Deploy - Again deployment is not something that happens at the end but something that already began when the concept was born The reason why i used a radial diagram to represent the dimensions is to make it clear that there is no individual schedule determinism on any of these that creates a critical path. The magnitude of success or lack thereof is simply the combined magnitude of all these dimensions and the success of a project manager lies in monitoring and managing the magnitude of these dimensions so that a balanced and wellformed solution of sufficient magnitude to create a fruitful change constantly evolves.

Praveen George 2010-07-10T23:58:09Z