Conference Recap – The awe inspiring quality & number of conferences in Cascadia!
Rails 2013 Conf (April 29th-May 1st) The Rails 2013 Conference kicked off for me, with a short bike ride through town to the conference center. The Portland conference center is one of the most connected conference centers I’ve seen; light rail, streetcar, bus, bicycle boulevards, trails & of course pedestrian access is all available. I [...]
Node PDX – Introducing Adam Baldwin, James Halliday, Ryan Jarvinen, Mike McNeil and Horse JS
This is it, last string of introductions. Hope you’re registered. Adam Baldwin is presenting… Introducing NodeSecurity.io Adam Baldwin Adam Baldwin is a web app hacker, team lead at ^Lift Security and the CSO for &yet. Adam has presented at various security & dev conferences in the past including, DEFCON, Djangocon, Toorcamp and RealtimeConf. The node.js [...]
Node PDX – Introducing Zach Bobb, Paul Jungwirth, Forrest Norvell and Charlie Key
…and the fifth iteration of Node PDX Introductions! Zach Bobb is presenting… Building a Computer In Your Browser Zach the TriMet Ticket Man! Zach is a mobile engineer with GlobeSherpa working hard to bring you the app that will let you buy TriMet tickets on your phone. Want to learn how computers work under the [...]
Node PDX – Introducing Adam Ulvi, Aron Racho, Christopher Meiklejohn, Max Ogden and Brock Whitten!
…and the fourth iteration begins! Adam Ulvi is presenting… Put a Sensor On It! Adam Ulvi Adam is a Portland native (straight out of the Simpsons) with a penchant for software and systems integration. 8-bit gamer, seasoned professional, perpertual noob. Specialization is for insects. Learn how easy it is to create your own monitoring system! [...]
Who is Node PDX for? Who should attend? What’s going on? Where are we at?
Node PDX is a conference that is for programmers (ticket link below!!) both new to the industry and stalwarts, ladies and gentlemen, and simply the curious or already seasoned pros of JavaScript. Our goal is to have great speakers, great topics, encourage and support intelligent and forward thinking conversation. All of this and we’ll strive [...]
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 [...]
Write the Docs, Railsconf Portland, RICON East, Node PDX, Vancouver Polyglot, Open Source Bridge and OSCON…
…if you are deciding what to attend this year, here’s the top of the list. Just a few key conferences that will kick ass in technical & academic content. The other great thing about these conferences is that they either have a “code of ethics” or are reknown for real conference diversity vs. the “hey [...]
My Year of Coding, Messaging, Learning, Leading, Reconoitering, and Hacking in Photos
Hope you have a little patience, this blog entry is going to be pretty long. There was a multitude of conferences, more than a hundred pair coding sessions, more cities, hotels and other things as I criss crossed the country helping to knock out projects, code, fire off some open source projects and generally get [...]
Lowering Mobile Development Barriers to Entry
Icenium is today launching what would appear to be a very compelling proposition – an environment that enables cross platform mobile development that decouples development from a particular development environment, full suite of developer products and SDK. Icenium decouples the compilers from the platform and makes the SDKs available in
ETLs and APIs – A Thought Stream on the Matter, Are Things Really Changing That Much?
Often the tendency has been, and largely still is in Enterprises, to build things really large. Doing big design up front (BDUF) all the way to creating massive JavaScript libraries for generating JavaScript from non-JavaScript langauges, leading to a huge case of analysis paralysis and other such keywords that all point to the mythic man month or [...]
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. [...]
Thor Project Opens Up, Building the Cloud Foundry Ecosystem with the Community
The Iron Foundry Team are big advocates of open source software. We write code across all sorts of languages, just like many of the development shops out there do. Sometimes we’re heavy on the .NET, other times we’re all up in some Java, Ruby on Rails, spooling up a Node.js Application or something else. So …
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 [...]
OSCON Day #3, #4, and Friday => Bailey’s Taproom, Cloud Camp, Cloud Foundry, Open Shift, PaaS, vert.x, and so much more…
Tuesday night, as usual ended with great technical conversation at Bailey’s Taproom. Bailey’s is basically the epicenter of the Portland tech scene. Almost every programmer, devops, or technical person either goes about once a month or has this establishment as a regular watering hole! It’s great, the atmosphere is chill, the beer is SUPERB, the [...]
OSCON 2012 => Monday Ignited, Tuesday OpenShift Session ++
OSCON 2012 Opening Doors Today kicked off with a monster Reggie Biscuit from Pine State Biscuits. If you live in Portland or are visiting just for the conference and like soul food of the tastiest nature, check it out. My first day ended up not as planned. Instead of attending sessions I ended up meeting [...]
