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 […]
Write the Docs, Proper Portland Brew, Hack n’ Bike and Polyglot Conference 2013
Blog Entry Index: Write the Docs Portland Proper Brew How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse with Riak @ Polyglot Conference 2013 I just wrapped up a long weekend of staycation. Monday kicked off Write the Docs this week and today, Tuesday, I’m getting back into the saddle. Write the Docs The Write the Docs Conference this […]
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 […]
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 …
The Bad, The Ugly and The Good Bits :: Sexism, VMworld 2012 & Smart Cool People
The Divide in Technologists… Sexism & Those That are Building Tech There seems to be a pretty distinctive divide in the technology industry today. There are the young, open minded, devop oriented, free-thinking individuals and then there are the old guard of IT. This later group still brings the “booth babes” and finds an incessant […]
Day #1 => Cloud Expo & Cloud Bootcamp
Thanks to Larry Carvalho and Krishnan Subramanian for lining me up to speak at the kick off bootcamp keynote and for a PaaS Session at the Cloud Expo Boot Camp. I had a great time and was able to cover some great material with the audience. It was great to hear a number of companies […]
Coder Society: Vote, Group, Create!
A New Kind of User Group… Coders Unite Pt 2! Call it a hackathon, coder session, workshop, or whatever. What it is not, is a presentation. What am I talking about? A user group effort that I’m working, and mentioned recently regarding coders uniting, on with others that will be centered around doing something, a range of […]
AppFog, Fort of Awesome & Node PDX Updated!
Time for the secret to be out of the bag. I’m currently working on contract with the awesome company of AppFog in the Fort of Awesome. Let me tell you, it is indeed awesome too! You might ask why I am working with them? How do I align with them? What is it they do? […]
