Todd Biske: Outside the Box

I’m listening to the latest Technometria podcast from IT Conversations where Phil Windley and his gang have a discussion with Ben Galbraith. At 53:45 into the podcast, Phil asks Ben about his home automation efforts that he’s incorporating into his house under construction. While there’s no mention at all of SOA, it was an interesting discussion nonetheless. He’s planning on leveraging RFID, webcams, etc. It sounds really cool, and I’d be interested in hearing an after-the-fact case study on the integration problems he ran into. Ben’s a great guy, I had the opportunity to meet him at a Microsoft Technology Summit in 2005 (he probably doesn’t remember me, but who cares), and knows a tremendous amount about the presentation side of development technologies.