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.

1. Boks – Organize Your Stuff
Sondre Bjellås
Steria AS

2. Contents
 Ideas
 Realizing my idea
 Introduction to Boks
 Lessons learned
 Demo: Boks
 Realize Your idea («Getting started»)
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3. Brilliant Ideas!
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4. Realizing My Idea
Boks is the realization of an idea born
from a personal need.
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5. Introduction to Boks
 Cloud Service for organizing items
 Sharing items in the social web
 Focus on User Experience and simplicity
 Online storage, no installation, quick signup
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8. Technologies
Windows Identity
Silverlight Amazon
Foundation
WCF RIA Services SQL Azure
Windows Azure
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9. Lessons learned
 Learning everything new is hard!
 «Coding by seaching» takes time
 Get into the «feedback loop»
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10. Demo: Boks
- Demo of app
- Walkthrough of project source

11. Realize Your Idea
 Conceptualize Your Idea
 Prototype the Concept
 Change small, release often
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12. 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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14. Realize Your Idea: Signup
 Decide how users signup
 Invitations are good for control
 Do you want to handle autentication?
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15. Realize Your Idea: Feedback
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16. 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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17. Most importantly of all...
Have fun with your project!
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18. Thank You!
Sondre Bjellås
Steria AS
www.steria.no
www.sondreb.com
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