Monthly Archives: August 2021
Richard Alexander Prokop
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”– Mitch Albom August 28, 2021 marks the five-year anniversary of my brother’s unexpected and not so unexpected death. I say “not so unexpected” since Richard had been neglecting his health for a long time in some very significant ways. He was the type who either ignored a problem […]
Siddhartha
I am always in the middle of a book. Currently, I am reading a science fiction, time travel novel about historians and World War II. Prior to that was JK Rowling’s “The Casual Vacancy.” I sometimes return to a book that I’ve already read. A good book is like good music. There are some songs that I can listen […]
Avaya Spaces / ServiceNow Integration
In Writing Applications for the Composable Enterprise, I explained how I created an integration between Avaya Spaces and Salesforce. A fellow Avayan read the blog, watched the video of my software in action, and then asked if I could do the same thing for ServiceNow. My answer, of course, was “yes.” We are talking composable […]
The Four Pillars of Communications Security
I have been working with IP technology for a long time. I can’t tell you the exact year of my first exposure, but it was sometime between 1985 and 1987. I was working at Northern Telecom as a software developer and was tasked with adding a TCP/IP stack to a version of Unix that ran on a Motorola […]
Writing Applications for the Composable Enterprise
A large part of my job consists of creating proof-of-concept applications that demonstrate the power and flexibility of Avaya cloud APIs. Customers come to me with ideas and I turn those ideas into something real. In the video below, I show the results of a financial customer’s request for an application that integrates Avaya Spaces […]
Mirror Mirror
(second row, fifth column) Doppelganger: The ghostly counterpart of a living person. From the German words doppel, meaning double, and ganger, meaning goer. I saw him only one time and that was over 45 years ago. He was tall with really long hair. He had a mustache, an Arizona tan, looked about 18, and was as skinny as a […]
Sensory Ghosts
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” Oscar Wilde Although it is impossible for me to name a favorite song, there are several that hold special meaning for me. These are the songs that transport me back to a very specific person, place, or time. […]
Tao, Zen, and Tomorrow 