Dreamforce ’14 Developer Keynote: The Big Reasons to Reserve Your Seat Now
On the fence about whether the DF ’14 developer keynote is for you? The developer keynote is for anyone who wants to create new apps, or extend and customize their existing salesforce implementation. Reserve your seat now before they sell out!
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 […]

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 […]

3 Things Companies Do Wrong by Developers, The New King Makers
I’m sitting on the train heading from Seattle to Portland today. I live in Portland, but spend a significant amount of time in the beautiful Emerald City. The time on the train is immensely useful to think about concepts, thoughts, introspect, code and generally be uninterrupted in focus. All the while it makes the 3 plus hour trip productive […]

IBM Makes Rational Software More Palatable To Developers With Green Hat Acquisition
IBM (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced their intent to acquire the London based software quality testing solution, Green Hat. With this move, IBM is preparing Rational Software for the hybrid era where enterprises will have complex environments including cloud based infrastructure. This is an interesting move considering the fact that Rational Software already has Rational […]

AWS Embraces Developers With Their Eclipse Toolkit
Image via Wikipedia One of the biggest selling point for Windows Azure platform is the ease with which the applications can be developed using their Visual Studio environment and deployed in the Azure platform. Today, Amazon announced AWS toolkit for Eclipse, an open source plugin for Eclipse Java IDE. This makes it extremely useful for […]