Bringing to Life an Open Source Software Project via Github & Jekyll – Part 1
Starting with Github, Automatic Page Generation & Jekyll It’s time for another blog series! This is a series I’m starting to outline that crazy complex site I’m building to prove out all sorts of things, all located at http://adron.me. So far it’s just a site that hold portfolio information for my coding, biking and related [...]
Using Bosh to Bootstrap Cloud Foundry via Stark & Wayne Consulting
I finally sat down and really started to take a stab at Cloud Foundry Bosh. Here’s the quick lowdown on installing the necessary bits and getting an initial environment built. Big thanks out to Dr Nic @drnic, Luke Bakken & Brain McClain @brianmmcclain for initial pointers to where the good content is. With their guidance [...]
Distributed Coding Prefunc: Chicago Boss, Rails Based Erlang Power
Troy Howard and I sat down on a Friday night to do some straight up thrashing of Erlang and Chicago Boss. It seemed like a framework that has a lot of promise. Thus, we wanted to hack at it a bit and see what we could come up with. First things first, I running OS-X [...]
Getting Github : JavaScript Libraries Spilled EVERYWHERE! Series #003
This how-to is going to kind of go all over the place. My goal is to get github data. The question however is, how and with what. I knew there were some available libraries, so writing straight and pulling straight off of the API myself seemed like it would be unnecessary work. The github API [...]
Basho – First Week Coding & Research Adventures…
The First Things This week, the first thing I did was give a solid read to Mark Phillip’s Blog “themarkphillips” (@pharkmillups). Here’s a break down of some entries I found really interesting and helpful in getting kick started here at Basho (or just really a good read in and of itself): Using Open Source to [...]
The #TypeScript Bomb Went off With a BANG Today!
First thing in the morning today the east coast was talking about Mary Jo Foley’s article about the TypeScript release. Later in the day Matt Baxter-Reynolds released a bit of write up titled “Microsoft TypeScript: Can the father of C# save us from the tyranny of JavaScript?“. My first reactions went something like this: TypeScript sounds interesting. [...]
Setting Up Github for Windows for Powershell CLI Users
Recently I installed the Github for Windows App. It’s a great app, however, I’d rather not use it for the day to day interactions I have with Git. I have a lot of branching, forking and merging to do that just doesn’t happen to well with the app. It’s a great app, but overall I’m [...]
HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Metro App Building on Windows 8 Part 1
I’m a fan of JavaScript and I’m warming to some of the Metro interfaces on Windows 8. I’ve always found the Windows 7 Phone UI, which is the first iteration of the Metro UI, to be a very slick phone interface. So with this blog entry I’m going to lay out setting up a default [...]
IaaS vs. PaaS or Infrastructure vs. Platform and I Want Beer NOW!
A friend and now coworker of mine, Richard Seroter (@rseroter & Blog) decided to do a comparo. I took the infrastructure based deployment, ala IaaS and he took the platform based deployment, ala PaaS. What we’ve done is taken a somewhat standard ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework, a SQL Server Database, a UX & UI design [...]
Macbook Air Multiple Monitor Support
The Macbook Air is indeed an “insanely great” device. I have slammed this thing around, physically and virtually, from the bicycle messenger bag situation described in my buying decision post, all the way to running multiple virtual machines and multiple monitors! This machine, of course if you’re using lean, clean, powerful, and intelligent built software, [...]
The Non-Microsoft Realm, Collecting Rubies Part I
Years ago I worked with Linux (Redhat 3.2, SUSE, Gentoo, and Slackware among others) and also played around with PHP. I’ve never really gotten too keen in PHP, mainly because it just seemed sort of a mess. But when I needed something to get the job done and didn’t want to wait on the bureaucratic [...]
WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux EC2 Micro Instance, For Free
I’ve been wanting to get a write up done for WordPress on AWS, the fact that it is free for a year, since they’ve released the free-tier many months ago. Well I finally got around to it, however it isn’t a write up. I went ahead and put the work in to produce a video [...]
Gritty Technical Info on Windows Azure Web Roles
This is a follow up to the previous blog entry I wrote pertaining to Windows Azure Roles. I wanted to cover the bases on the various technical aspects of creating a Windows Azure Web Role & Worker Role in Visual Studio 2010. Without interruption let’s just dive right in. Start Visual Studio 2010 and initiate a new [...]
How to hold a Professional Focus Group that Produces Quantifiable Results
As part of our recent enterprise level research for a yet-to-be named ground breaking product, we conducted a focus group this week that featured a few of the industry’s top experts. The amount of preparation time involved prior to the day long event far exceeded the actual event and in hindsight could have been shortened. [...]
The Ultimate Competitive Advantage
Why did it take until 1946 for the first computer to be invented? All of the elements were in place by 1918. It’s not because there weren’t companies capable of creating the computer. In fact in the late 1800’s over 1000 electrical apparatus companies were formed to build electric devices. 6 elements of knowledge need [...]
