Adron Hall
Lean, Kanban, Agile Pairing, TDD (sometimes test after) software architect and programmer. Worked with distributed (called cloud sometimes) computing services since 2007 using phat data (8 billion rows of data on an AVERAGE day, sometimes called big data) and everything from business intelligence to the nitty gritty of array structures inside file based data stores to create caching tiers for custom software needs.
Currently pushing for distributed technologies & improving software architecture, better data centers, the best software development practices and keeping everything secure in the financial industry again.
To see what I'm up to today, check out my blog at Composite Code.
Top 4: “Nobody Reads Blogs… Except Everybody Read Blogs”
I know I know, the marketers say it’s all about the single articles now. Nobody reads blogs. Nobody subscribes to blogs. Ya know, except of course for that small percentage of people that do. …marketing, it’ll make you insane if you’re not careful. But seriously, here’s a few blogs that are actually worth reading. They’re […]
Learning “nools” Rules Engine
Recently I sat down to work up a solution around a rules engine. There were a few things I noticed right off. When there is a request to implement or build a rules engine it is very often (I’m guessing a solid 40-60% of the time) reasoned that there is a need solely based on […]
Getting Started with Swift, For NON-Apple Devs
This past weekend I attempted to get started with Swift coding. Since I have not been an Apple Developer for a while, it wasn’t immediately obvious how to get started. But once I fumbled around a few minutes I realized I needed a developer account to get the latest XCode. Jeez, it really shows how […]
Great New European Technology Invention
One of the things that I’ve noticed throughout Europe is this really cool invention they’ve created here called a schedule. This schedule is something that is based on another piece of technology called a clock. The clock is designed to show the passing of time, something very similar to what we in America have, except […]
I’ve Officially Sent This Email Over 100 Times to Recruiters Looking for .NET Developers
Here’s the letter, it’s kind of LOLz! I know it’s tough to find .NET Developers (or replace .NET with Java Developers or X Enterprise Language), so CIOs, CTOs and others take note. Here’s what I know and what I see, embodied in a letter. I will put effort into hooking people up with good jobs, that […]
Breaking Up Again, OneNote and I Must Go Separate Ways
Ok, psychologically one is supposed to tell the good news last and the bad news first. Well, I’m doing that backwards with this article. First things first, all the awesome about Microsoft’s OneNote App. Microsoft OneNote The cool thing is, after more than a few years, OneNote runs on pretty much runs on most mobile and desktop […]
Docker Red Hat and Containerization Wreck Virtualization
Conversation has popped up around a few tweets Alex Williams regarding virtualization at the Red Hat Summit. One of the starts to the conversation. How Project Atomic fits with Docker, geard, etc. http://t.co/qjFFGR2nI8— Alex Williams (@alexwilliams) April 15, 2014 Paraphrased the discussion has been shaped around asking, “Why is OS-level virtualization via containers (namely Docker) become such a massive hot topic?” […]
Write The Docs Bring Forth New Understanding From Documentarians @WriteTheDocs
The Write The Docs Conference was started in 2013 as a simple idea. Bring together those that write professionally in technical fields, creating documentation, educational papers, scientific research or other ideas of this nature. Several people got together to organize this, thinking that even a moderate turn out of writers would be considered a success. However a […]
Pluralsight Authors Summit – Meeting & Learning Really Talented People!
Finally, I’ve been able to wrap up my first blog entry on the Pluralsight Authors Summit 2014 (AS14)… Classified It all started with this. I’d received a mission. NOTE: Click on any image to see the full gallery of images I took at the conference. My apologies for the dirty iPhone 5 camera lens. I’ve […]
In-memory Orchestrate Local Development Database
I was talking with Tory Adams @BEZEI2K about working with Orchestrate‘s Services. We’re totally sold on what they offer and are looking forward to a lot of the technology that is in the works. The day to day building against Orchestrate is super easy, and setting up collections for dev or test or whatever are so easy […]
Wintersmith Documentation
I set out a few days ago to put together a documentation site. I had a few criteria for this site: A static site that I could push to Github to use with their github pages feature. The static site is generated from markdown. It just works. It’s easy to get it into a workflow […]
I’ve Got a JavaScript & Node.js Webinar, Webstorm Tutorial Videos, Work & Flow With JavaScript Development and More…
Webinar: Node.js Development Workflow in WebStorm This coming week I’m doing an intro to work and flow with Node.js JavaScript Programming that I’m working with JetBrains on. In the webinar I’ll be covering the following key topics in the webinar: Open an existing project & getting WebStorm configured for running, testing and related working tasks. […]
Going Live, Data & Pricing @ Orchestrate
Over the last few months while working on the prototype around Deconstructed I’ve been using the Orchestrate service offering exclusively. With their service around key value and graph store easily accessible via API it was a no brainer to get started building ASAP. Today, that service goes full beta! You can get the full lowdown […]
History of Symphonize.js – JavaScript Client Pivot to Data Generation Library
…the history of symphonize.js So Far! NOTE: If you just want to check out the code bits, scroll down to the sub-title #symphonize #hacking. Also important to note I’m putting the library through a fairly big refactor at the moment so that everything aligns with the documentation that I’ve recently created. So many things may not […]
9 Ways To Survive The Shit Storm of Developer Evangelism
I started to write a blog entry a few months ago about my time doing developer evangelism. First in practice, along with product management and team leadership and then as a full time developer evangelist with Basho. Then I felt many different things, nothing which translated into a very useful blog entry. Well past any […]
