Boks - Organize Your Stuff
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The document describes Boks, a cloud service for organizing items like books, movies, and music albums. It allows users to share their collections in the social web and avoid duplicate purchases. The service focuses on user experience and simplicity with online storage and quick signup. Boks was created by Sondre Bjellås to address a personal need. It utilizes technologies like Windows Identity Foundation, WCF RIA Services, SQL Azure, and Windows Azure. The document provides lessons learned from creating Boks and encourages others to conceptualize their ideas, create prototypes, and release changes often to realize their own projects.
Boks - Organize Your Stuff
- 1. Boks – Organize Your Stuff Realizing Ideas Sondre Bjellås Steria AS
- 2. Contents  Ideas  Realizing my idea  Introduction to Boks  Lessons learned  Demo: Boks  Realize Your idea («Getting started») Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
- 3. Brilliant Ideas! Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
- 4. Realizing My Idea Boks is the realization of an idea born from a personal need. Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
- 5. 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 Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
- 6. Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
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- 8. Technologies Windows Identity Silverlight Amazon Foundation WCF RIA Services SQL Azure Windows Azure Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
- 9. Lessons learned  Learning everything new is hard!  «Coding by searching» takes time  Get into the «feedback loop» Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
- 10. Demo: Boks - Demo of app - Walkthrough of project source
- 11. Realize Your Idea  Conceptualize Your Idea  Prototype the Concept  Change small, release often Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
- 12. Realize Your Idea: Web Site  Create a compelling promotion site  What is it, what does it do?  Why should I signup? Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
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- 14. Realize Your Idea: Signup  Decide how users signup  Invitations are good for control  Do you want to handle authentication? Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
- 15. Realize Your Idea: Feedback Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
- 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 Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
- 17. Most importantly of all... Have fun with your project! Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com
- 18. Thank You! Sondre Bjellås Steria AS www.steria.no www.sondreb.com Boks – Organize Your Stuff www.intheboks.com