Over the course of the past nearly three decades I’ve had the unique opportunity to lead the planning, construction and operation some of the largest, most sophisticated networks, server farms and operational infrastructures ever devised. Somehow I always seemed to be positioned professionally to bring to bear my teams entire combined experiences to deliver these ultimate systems. These systems received wide acclaim from Trade Press, MediaMetrix, Gartner and DataQuest analysts and covered solutions developed for the likes of Motorola’s Internet and Networking Group, Cable Data Products Group, Multi-Service Networking Division then CMGI’s Solutions, Planet Direct and MyWay, AltaVista Zip2 then on to CyberMedica and Verified Person and AgentVI and Esria for Adobe, BT, Boeing, Disney, and now VitalLock and EMC.
The one particular shared outcome of note has been the ongoing development over these decades of a peer-reviewed integrated Systems AND Software Development Life Cycle. I’ve always managed to contractually retain all intellectual property rights to this SDLC including all derivative enhancements as developed over the course of my career and enhanced by the tremendously valuable input from quite literally the creme de la creme of network, software and hardware engineers, administrators and developers both individually and in tandem with industry teams.
This compendium SDLC now has integrated into it many of the very best practices known and I’m excited to say that it’s now available to everyone in WIKI form here under a creative-commons license.
Enjoy!
Life sometimes gets difficult. There is always the temptation to give in or to give up.
When we show fortitude, we learn to “stick it out” and overcome obstacles to accomplish goals.
for·ti·tude
Pronunciation: \?fo?r-t?-?tüd, -?tyüd\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin fortitudin-, fortitudo, from fortis
Date: 12th century
1 : strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage.
It’s not about how many times you get knocked down it’s about getting back up that separates those who do from those who do not.
I Do. -Yoda
This marks the umpteenth time I’ve “begun” to blog and here’s hoping you enjoy what’s to come…
Best to you all,
-Bob.
Introducing VitalLock, the free personal private messaging service and cloud-based secure encrypted messaging platform with advanced event triggered delivery and notification options.
VitalLock is a RightScale managed EC2 powered open RESTfull JSON based API, S3 messaging store and Amazon SimpleDB based PKI.
The VitalLock Rich Internet Application is both the flagship product/service offering as well as the open code library consisting of our current Web, Flex, Facebook and Adobe AIR Desktop and Twitter clients.
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Flexible revenue services are enhanced client and cloud subscription based including: key strength, storage capacity, priority access, notification queuing and api transactions.
In development extensions including key and data escrow services will power product fits for enterprise and compliance markets.
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I’d love your comments…
Regards,
Bob Stewart
Founder of VitalLock
The road you choose to walk in this life is the one that leads into the next. Have you ever asked yourself, your highest self, “Just where are ‘we’ going?”
If you listen to your highest self, you will answer your self. It is not that voice that you usually hear, in fact it won’t be a voice at all, rather it is what you know, for what you know as truth need not be explained by little you. Every failure is a lesson learned if only to real-ize exactly what it is that you do not want. In knowing this your highest self becomes the present, be-comes the pre-sent. The Law of Attraction (Amazon link) at work.
“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn
Ah, this is magic, it has boldness, power and genius in it. Attract. Become. Be-come. Be come. Be. Come. This is how we evolve.
