erick's blog

10GUI is something I came across almost a year ago that I was reminded of the other day while speaking to John about touch screen devices. Designed by R. Clayton Miller, 10GUI is a concept design in the next evolution of human interface elements. He says, "the mouse and the windowed desktop are perhaps the two greatest innovations in the history of human-computer interaction. But like all innovations, they are best seen as part of a continuum rather than a terminus."

This blog is by Erick, a software engineer here at Junction Networks

I'm Addicted to the Internet

However you look at it, fortunately or not, I have a job that feeds one of my biggest addictions: the internet. Almost every waking hour, I'm online both at work and at home.

We recently spruced up our blog with some more common features. One of these features happened to be displaying our Twitter feed in the sidebar, which you now see on bottom right of the blog. When asked to implement this feature, I set out for a Drupal solution.

A brief post over at OSTATIC about why web services companies rely so heavily on open source software makes a great point on the level of control that open source software brings to a company over an otherwise equivalent proprietary solution.

From the article...

Did you know that Junction Networks has a public web service API available to any of our customers that exposes all of the pieces necessary to manage your own hosted PBX and PSTN gateway services? In fact our admin.onsip.com web administration portal has been built entirely on top of the very same API that is open and available to the public - this means any feature you see in our administration portal is potentially available for you to implement in your very own VoIP product.

What does this mean for your business?

Douglas Crockford¹ of Yahoo! has just published an excellent new book titled Javascript: The Good Parts.

Another Book On Javascript?!

Hi Everyone,

It's been a few weeks since our last release but now we're back from the Holidays and we've begun working on new features again. This week we have just a few minor changes for you as most of our development efforts are being focused on a few larger projects to be announced later ;)

Anyway, today we've made a quick fix for a bug we saw pop up on our Groups page in IE 7.0 when users were attempting to create a new group.

We have a new application for you this week!

Being ever vigilant here at Junction Networks, we are always adding new features to our products and services. From now on we will be using our blog as a means of updating you with our latest additions, enhancements, and occasional bug fixes for our products and web portals.

Coming off of Thanksgiving week, we have a modest list of updates which include: