Talking Technology on the First Crack Podcast

I was interviewed for a podcast with Garrick Van Buren from First Crack Podcast earlier this year and have just realized, I never posted the details! It was great amount of fun and we talked about all sorts of technology items related to VoIP, Asterisk and the Mobile Twin Cities Users Group that I had just formed at the time. I also realized as look back that we touched on an excellent book called "Hot Flat And Crowded", by Thomas Friedman that I think any kid growing up today should read. It's fascinating to realize just how much we will need to innovate as a species if we are going to survive on this plant. I'll leave at that. I fully recommend picking up the book!

You can read the discussion and listen to the entire podcast here.

Hope you enjoy it!

Mobile Software Development at Localtone

If some of you have been following me on Twitter you might have seen that I'm becoming actively involved in mobile software development. I thought might be good to do quick post relating to the some of the talks that I've given on the subject and a presentations I have coming up this month. If you are looking to learn more about mobile and are local to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, I suggest you join us at one of the Mobile Twin Cities User's group meetings that I have founded. a BIG thanks to everyone who has presented at the previous meetings an Breon Nagy for recording our presentations!

Mobile Twin Cities
http://mobiletwincities.com - We meet the third Tuesday of the month.

Watch us online realtime or archived videos from the meetings can be found here:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/MobileTC

Twin Cities Java user's Group - (TCJUG)
I presented at TCJUG where I showed my "Contratoid" Android app and deployed it to the Android market all in one evening.

Video, source code and slide from this meeting can be found here.

Video at: http://is.gd/U4Zr (the presentation starts about 10 minutes into the video)
Source at: http://is.gd/TZFP
Slides at: http://is.gd/U5tM

I presented on Android at the Ruby User's of MN (RUM) group. Slide from this presentation can be found here.

http://www.slideshare.net/justingrammens/AndroidIntro

If VoIP is your things, I also spoke on Adhearsion as well at RUM. Slides from that presentation can be found here:

http://www.slideshare.net/justingrammens/voice-enabled-applications

Finally, I'll be talking about Android at the Penguin's Unbound meeting this weekend where we'll try and create another Android app and deploy it to the market. Hope you can attended.

http://is.gd/1ayaT

I'm available for consulting around mobile software development on all devices. Would be more than happy to spend some time talking with your organization around how you can use mobile and VoIP technologies.

Podcast on Mobile and VoIP Technologies

My good friend Garrick Van Buren was nice enough to involve me in a conversation on mobile software and VoIP technologies. We had a lot of fun talking about where the market is today and where we see it going in the next 5 years. Exciting times are ahead for all of use in this space. Details of the discussion can be found on his Podcast blog at:

http://www.firstcrackpodcast.com/

Enjoy!