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 […]

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 […]

Sexism, Racism and t-shirts… Why Stop There?
I attend a lot of technical conferences, hackathons, workshops and all sorts of events where I get loaded up with t-shirts. Ridiculous amounts of t-shirts. Generally I love this! I have had a basic standard about all of these t-shirts. If it is a company and product that I know has done well by its […]

PDX Cloud – A Question Posed.
I attended the PDX Cloud meeting to present, but more to ask a question. Here’s how I posed that question (slide deck at the bottom of this blog entry). I frame the scenario of the distributed development world of cloud computing, dive into the vertical world of enterprise dev and then throw down the big […]

It’s Happening Again, Seattle Code Camp!
I’ve got two presentations happening this year at Seattle Code Camp! Are you signed up? If not, hit this and get signed up ASAP: https://seattlecodecamp2013.eventbrite.com/ My two presentations are: Distributed Databases – An Introduction to Riak Presenter:Adron Hall I’ll dive in with a quick definition and context of what distributed databases are. From there we’ll quickly […]

Introducing Junction
I’ve officially kicked off a new project from my notebook of projects based around building a Riak admin, data manipulation, reporting and news tool for Windows 8. If you want to jump right to the project, here’s the Github Pages Site, the Github Junction Repo and eventually I’ll have it listed in the Windows 8 […]

Farewell Basho, It’s Been Swell Yo!
Whew, it’s been a total blast working at Basho. I’ve accomplished a ton of things. Riak is a solid distributed database system and I’m glad to have worked with the team on advocating its use, teaching distributed systems ideas and concepts and generally spreading the knowledge. I’ve seen some truly great things that people are […]

OSCON : Day 1, Windows Just Doesn’t Do Cloud Foundry… but, there’s a fix for that…
The day before yesterday was day one, for me, of OSCON. I’d been out of town on business meet on Monday, so skipped out on the intro day. However the second day, my first, was a good time. There was already a good dose of “oh dear, I can’t attend ALL of the sessions I […]

PIE’s Third Class, You Better Keep an Eye on These Companies…
There are a number of new startups that have joined the third PIE Class. However there are a few that have stood out to me. The first startup has to do with the IoT. IoT stands for Internet of Things. I’m a MASSIVE fan of what is being done with IoT. Personally I think it […]

OS Bridge Day 1… Coffee, Missing Angular JS, Distributed Systems, Lego, Hardware, Terraformer…
OS Bridge Day 1 kicked off. I had more than a few goals to achieve for the day. Give my presentation “Data and Applications Across the Void :: Distributing Systems“, the first with this layout, of key topics and concepts around distributed systems. Meet Jason Denizac @_jden for coffee at Public Domain and catch up. Attend Beer […]

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 […]