Come to BoxDev This Wednesday. The Content Looks Awesome. I’ll Be There.
This Wednesday, I’ll be moderating the Founder’s Session at BoxDev ’15 with Rick Morrison (Comprehend), Ann Johnson (Interana), Nader Mikhail (Elementum), Sarah Nahm (Lever), and Shan Sinha (Highfive). While that’s reason enough to come, I think the agenda looks pretty awesome. The Innovate track includes a Fireside Chat with Marc Benioff (and one […]
RSVP for the Geek Train to .NET Fringe
The .NET Fringe Conference guests coming from northern Cascadia (north of Portland) will have the excellent benefit of taking the Geek Train to the conference. It’s also only $10 friggin’ bucks! RSVP link here | RSVP link here | RSVP link here | RSVP link here | RSVP link here Departure We’ll depart Saturday, April 11th at 2pm, with an ETA […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
OSCON : Conversations, Deployments, Architecture, Docker and the Future?
I wrote about my first day of OSCON “OSCON : Day 1, Windows Just Doesn’t Do Cloud Foundry… but, there’s a fix for that…“. The rest of the week was most excellent. I caught up with friends and past coworkers. I heard about people working on some amazing new projects. Some things I will try […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! […]
