Capabilities

Needed technical capabilities, standards

Implementation environment, computer language in a general sense, not software products.

A lot of this stuff following is 'gleam-in-the-eye' type of technology, that is, nice to have some time on the future ... what do I actually need now ? Maybe three or four of the following.

Environment

Basically, these 'environmental arenas':

1. Desktop ( GUI )
2. Server ( public or private network )
3. Console ( non-GUI )
4. Mobile or Info Pad ? ( like tablet or netbook )
5. Cloud ( such as Google )

Platform

... working in these 'technical arenas':

1. Linux
2. Windows
3. Macintosh
4. Android ( if possible )

Time for a Matrix ?

	Linux Flavors	Microsoft Windows	Apple	Android	Other OSs
Desktop ( GUI )	Notes/Linux#Desktop	Notes/MicrosoftWindows	OSX, via ?	?
Console ( non-GUI )	Notes/Linux#Console	readline console, but no curses	?	x
Server ( private network )	Notes/Linux#PrivateServers	XAMPP, Twisted, Python servers	Linux	x
Server ( public network )	Notes/Linux#PublicServers	X	X	X	X
Mobile	Notes/Linux#Mobile	Windows 10	iOS	No real Python, Java only
Cloud ( Google, Amazon )	Notes/Linux#Cloud	Azure	?	?

Technical Capabilities

Following list is very overlapping and redundant.

Permanent Servers

• Service discovery
• Standard ports

Intermittent Services

• Connect-Disconnect
• Bind on demand

Peer2Peer Servers

• Messaging
• Synchronizing

Integration Architecture and Standards

• usual suspects, next item
• Formats, for example creole wiki markup
• Maybe process/workflow language
• Database standards, if any. Self-made standard like SQLAlchemy

Standard Servers and Protocols

• HTTP
• SSH
• XMPP
• AMQP
• SMTP
• FTP
• Samba

Ad Hoc Servers

• Messaging backplates
• Multiprocessing pipelines

Network Management

• Global Naming, DNS
• Service Discovery
• Monitoring, particularly security.

Application Frameworks

• Mostly python
• How big is it ?

UI Frameworks

• Graphical versus non-graphical
• event/process monitor
• ad hoc data entry
• mostly python ( pref pyGTK / Glade )
• HTML5 and WebSockets ?
• smaller, better

Command Interpreters

• Little cmd type apps
• Python console apps
• Localhost telnet apps
• Extended IRC

Integrated Process Launcher & Monitoring

• Pythonic base for bash and Linux commands ?

Integrated Process Platform

• Start/bind on demand
• Process patterns
• Process templates

Database And Persistence

• RDF relation Idiom
• integration over multiple machines/users
• Extract / merge databases
• Synchronize
• Database conversion, version-to-version, SQLite to MySQL etc.
• MongoDB and SQLite

Messaging

• combined with ftp, console commands
• Message queue, process pipelining
• Real messaging like Jabber etc.

Email servers/clients

• Ad-hoc info sharing
• Public vs. Private

Info Drop Boxes

• Web Sockets
• Repository ( preferably Bazaar )
• MongoDB

Desktop Integration

• XML-RPC possible on private network, not on public
• X Forwarding
• Messaging ( how ti use public services ? )
• Apps that have built in synch capability, maybe Zim Wiki
• email via Twisted SMTP

Desktop-Server Integration

• Start-Stop services, start-on-demand, monitoring
• Note that XML-RPC on a public network is not on unless tunnelled or intermittent
• Public server is read-only, Admin server is locahost with tunnelling ?

User Management

• Each client mach/os is user on server ( ex. hc-pclos, cq-ku, cq-w7 )
• "PyWacket" presence discovery on public and private networks

Public Presence Management

• All those little public presences: google, twitter, facebook, vendor, financial, etc. etc. accounts

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