Proven Corporation

I posted my slides from my talk at BarCamp Bangkok on January 26th. The talk mostly covers advanced usage of OpenSSH to do port forwarding, web proxying, and control of remote systems.

View the slides in HTML format: Making Magic with SSH

You can also get the text source file, or download everything in zip format.

I just got back from BarCamp. It was very interesting and very fun. I met a lot of excellent people, and I’d like to say thanks to everybody who talked with me.

I will post slides of my SSH talk shortly. Please check the site in a day or so, or subscribe to the RSS feed.

About the Siam eBook Printers giveaway, I will be contacting the winners of the lucky draw shortly.

We are happy to release Strangle, an open source DNS message parsing library. You can read all about it from our Strangle summary. Strangle provides a convenient Python interface which leverages the enterprise-grade BIND technology from the Internet Software Consortium. If your Python application needs to understand the meaning in cryptic DNS packets, give it a try!

This is an update about Siam eBook Printers. We are eager to get as much feedback as possible in order to best serve our customers. So now, we are introducing a 100 baht discount to any customer who leaves a helpful comment about the site. You can optionally specify your email address if you want us to follow up with you.

So stop by and say “This is awesome!” (or even better: your own constructive criticism) to get your discount today! As always, shipping is free, and books about free software (and open source) get an additional 150 baht price reduction.

I have added a section to the site for publishing software from Proven Corporation. All software published is of course free software.

For now, there is only a simple Greasemonkey script for an excellent free software-related web site.

We have opened a new service which is personally exciting for me and beneficial for the software community in Thailand: an eBook printing, binding, and delivery service, called Siam eBook Printers.

If you have an ebook in PDF format, just attach the file on the web page and provide your delivery address. In a few days, a nice bound volume arrives at your door from EMS. If you’ve ever seen these shops in malls and universities that print and bind books, then you know exactly what this is, except we do it over the web.

We are aiming directly at foreigners and I.T. professionals in Thailand. Here is what makes Siam Book Printers unique:

• Everything is in English
• We cater to busy people. You attach a PDF on the web site, and you receive EMS packages.
• We guarantee no mechanical errors, smudges, missing pages, or other flaws. If you are dissatisfied, we will send you a replacement book.
• There is no guesswork; you preview exactly what you will get.
• Besides standard bank transfers, we accept credit card payments and PayPal. We accept payment in Thai baht or U.S. dollars.

Personally, having eBooks printed is one of my favorite activities in Thailand. When done right, the end result is quite beautiful. Ever since I had The Debian System from No Starch Press made into a hardback, I have been hooked. I doubt the site will be successful financially; but my goal is to reveal and simplify the eBook printing process to more foreigners and software professionals.

Finally, Siam Book Printers is a platform to promote free software in Thailand. We offer discounts for eBooks about free and open source software. When you order a book about free or open source software, just click the checkbox to receive your discount!

I have returned from the JAX Asia developer conference in Singapore, so I am now “public.” I plan to begin publicizing some of things I am working on. Watch this space for upcoming announcements.

I will have announcements covering training, services, and solutions aimed at improving the Asian state of the art using free software.

I finished getting video working on the site. You can view it on the About page. Besides serving as a test run, the first video is a relatively clear (if a bit dramatic) explanation of what free software is and what the objectives of the Free Software Foundation are. It was shot just before the GPL version 3 came out, and Eben Moglen summarizes what the foundation has been doing from its inception until then.

My plan is to regularly post original content consisting of dual Thai-English educational material about free software. Due to the language barrier, Thailand does not extract as much value as it could from this resource, and I plan to address that from the bottom up.

This new blog is for Proven Corporation’s activities.

Proven Corporation is directed by me, Jason Smith. I am an expert in computer networking and security solutions, and I have been operating from Bangkok, Thailand for five years, working with universities, banks, telecom companies, and government.

My primary skill is integrating valuable things out of free software or open source components.