Year in review

By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 29, 2009 at 11:46 am

It’s the end of the year already and time for this blogger’s year in review. This has been a good year for me, no matter how you measure it.

Probably the most significant public facing accomplishments included the release of the book “Platform Management Demystified” which seems to be doing very well. When attending IDF in San Francisco this year, we gave away 800 of these books and it served both as boot promotion and as a promotion for Intel Active Management Technology. If you have not pickup you copy already, it’s available on Amazon.com. Speaking of being at IDF, this year I was co-speaker at a session and had my very own lab. Both the session and the labs did very well and I am expected to be speaker again for IDF Beijing in April.

Another accomplishment this year was the re-release of the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies. Back in 2003 or so, I worked on a set of development tools to make building and testing UPnP solutions much easier. The tools had been on the Intel web site for a long time but without maintenance, we when offline and needed an update and a new open source license. These tools are now released at: opentools.homeip.net.

Also on the same web site is the open source release of the mesh network prototype software. It’s not ready for primetime yet, but I expect that this coming year it will get most interest as it actually starts doing useful things. Most of my coding time this year was spent on this mesh software, it’s really difficult stuff to build but it’s really powerful. Imagine being able to monitor and manage all your computers is one or more sites from a central web site and do it regardless of firewalls, proxies or which computer is on or off at any given time.

One of the big deals for Intel this coming year is the ATOM store. I bought myself a Netbook at CostCo this year since I wanted one and I would see if I could help out with the effort. I am mostly a C# developer (with the exception of the P2P mesh agent written in really tight C code) so when it came time to help with the ATOM store, my first contribution was to see if I could make C# apps work with the App Store SDK. I also built myself a test application that is well suited for the Netbook form factor just to try my hand at it.

I got myself a Microsoft Home Server and worked on an add-in for it. We will see how that effort goes in the next year, certainly some interesting possibilities. I also worked on a really small Linux boot image for remote booting computers over IDE-R in less than two minutes.

All in all, this year was filled with plenty of fun projects and a lot of potential building blocks. I fully expect that I will build on top of these existing software components many new innovations in the year to come.

Ylian

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