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Presentation on how I realized my idea for a cloud service for organizing items, and how others can realize their own ideas using concepts and technologies on cloud computing.
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Boks – Organize Your Stuff
Sondre Bjellås
Steria AS
Realizing Ideas
Boks – Organize Your Stuff
www.intheboks.com
Contents
Ideas
Realizing my idea
Introduction to Boks
Lessons learned
Demo: Boks
Realize Your idea («Getting started»)
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Brilliant Ideas!
Boks – Organize Your Stuff
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Realizing My Idea
Boks is the realization of an idea born
from a personal need.
Boks – Organize Your Stuff
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Introduction to Boks
Cloud Service for organizing items (books,
movies, music albums, ++)
Sharing items in the social web
Making sure you avoid duplicate purchases
Focus on User Experience and simplicity
Online storage, no installation, quick signup
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Boks – Organize Your Stuff
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Boks – Organize Your Stuff
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Technologies
Windows Azure
WCF RIA Services
Silverlight Windows Identity
Foundation
SQL Azure
Amazon
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Lessons learned
Learning everything new is hard!
«Coding by searching» takes time
Get into the «feedback loop»
Demo: Boks
- Demo of app
- Walkthrough of project source
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Realize Your Idea
Conceptualize Your Idea
Prototype the Concept
Change small, release often
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Realize Your Idea: Web Site
Create a compelling promotion site
What is it, what does it do?
Why should I signup?
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Realize Your Idea: Signup
Decide how users signup
Invitations are good for control
Do you want to handle authentication?
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Realize Your Idea: Feedback
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Realize Your Idea: Get Started
Learn Windows Azure, it’s simply to get
started
Learn Silverlight, takes time to learn, but
makes you super-productive
Find existing services to utilize in your project
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Most importantly of all...
Have fun with your project!
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Thank You!
Sondre Bjellås
Steria AS
www.steria.no
www.sondreb.com
