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In-memory Orchestrate Local Development Database

In-memory Orchestrate Local Development Database

By Adron Hall on March 28, 2014

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 […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged c#, data, data store, database, databases, development, fake, ideas, in memory database, In-Memory, java, Javascript, mock, My Updates, orchestrate, Orchestrate.io, orchestrateio, polyglot, projects, swap shop, wrapper

Is PaaS Tech Still Around? Maybe Containers Will Kill it or Bring it?

Is PaaS Tech Still Around? Maybe Containers Will Kill it or Bring it?

By Adron Hall on November 22, 2013

Recently a post from @Gigabarb popped up on the ole’ Twitter that started a micro-storm of twitter responses. Ok tech users. Who out there is using a PaaS? For realz. Serious question.— Barb Darrow (@gigabarb) November 21, 2013 This got me thinking about a number of things and I started to write her an email […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged centurylink, cloud foundry, Containers, Distributed Things, docker, ideas, openshift, opinions, paas, platform as a service, windows azure | 6 Responses

Sorry Database Nerds, Nobody Actually Gives a Shit…

Sorry Database Nerds, Nobody Actually Gives a Shit…

By Adron Hall on November 4, 2013

So I’ve been in more than a few conversations about data structures, various academic conversations and other notions about where and how data should be stored. I’ve been on projects and managed projects that involve teams of people determining how to manage data so that other people can just not manage data. They want to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aaS, database, databases, distributed database, geo, graph, graph theory, ideas, key value, managed database, managed services, mongo, mongo lab, mongodb, mongolab, nosql, Orchestrate.io, orchestrateio, paas, relational database, sql, time series

Only Yahoos Work in an Office!?

Only Yahoos Work in an Office!?

By Adron Hall on February 28, 2013

Ok, so I think almost everybody has either slammed Marissa Mayer about the new Yahoo non-remote worker policy or said that it’s the medicine they have to swallow. Very few are actually pointing out however, that Yahoo was probably just really bad at managing their remote employees. In the end, I don’t care, that just […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Freedom, ideas, in office, individual, indvidual liberty, Marissa Mayer, office, office worker, rants, remote, remote work, remote workers, remote working, Scott Hanselman, telecommuting, yahoo

What really is Open Source Software and what’s this community nonsense they ask…

What really is Open Source Software and what’s this community nonsense they ask…

By Adron Hall on September 21, 2012

Open Source Software (OSS), Why Some Fail At It OSS has won the war. It has been over for years now. Microsoft has ceded, Oracle, VMware and many others have stepped up and attempted to embrace the open source community. Sometimes they’ve been successful, sometimes they haven’t. They’re slowly changing their models to play well […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source, Strategy | Tagged closed source, community, ideas, linkedin, microsoft, mysql, nosql, open source, open source software, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, oss, vmware

Adam & Krishan Got Me Motivated Today…  to toss the trash conversations

Adam & Krishan Got Me Motivated Today… to toss the trash conversations

By Adron Hall on September 7, 2012

I was speaking with Krishan Subramanian (@krishnan) and Adam Seligman (@adamse) today. I love talking to these guys. They’re both smart, intelligent and upbeat guys. They see the positive things we’re all working toward and accomplishing in the technology space, specifically around PaaS, Cloud Computing and around the cultural implications of stronger technology communities, involvement …

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Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged .NET, adam seligman, cloud foundry, Cloud Speak, community, discussion, dotnet, dreamforce, ideas, iron foundry, Krishnan Subramanian, microsoft, node.js, nodejs, open source community, open source software, Oracle, oss community, paas, platform as a service, Presentations and Speaking, Ruby on Rails, saas, salesforce, software as a service, Thor Project | 1 Response

Day #3 => DeployCon && Enterprise && Data Gravity

Day #3 => DeployCon && Enterprise && Data Gravity

By Adron Hall on June 16, 2012

A lot of things were mentioned during the panels and sessions during DeployCon. Some things I agree with, some things I don’t. The “Web Way” There is one prevalent thing that came up over and over, the “web way”. What’s the web way? It is building horizontally, scalable, with RESTful APIs, and applications at an […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged appfog, cloud, cloud computing, cloud expo, conferences, data gravity, deploycon, iaas, ideas, paas, platform services, Presentations and Speaking | 1 Response

Geoloqi, CivicApps, and TriMet API/SDKs

Geoloqi, CivicApps, and TriMet API/SDKs

By Adron Hall on November 17, 2011

I’m heading off on yet another coding adventure this coming weekend. I can never get enough hackathons, startup weekends, and such. The energy, creativity, and learning is unbeatable at these types of events. This adventure will be mashing up a plethora of APIs (SDKs) and other capabilities to build something cool against. What it may […]

Posted in Application Software, Mobile, Open Source, Platforms | Tagged Application programming interface, business, conferences, Geoloqi, ideas, Meetups n' Such, My Updates, portland, Portland Oregon, Public transport, TriMet, Washington

Me on TDD/BDD/Pairing and Jason Fried’s TED Talk and “why work isn’t done in the office…”

Me on TDD/BDD/Pairing and Jason Fried’s TED Talk and “why work isn’t done in the office…”

By Adron Hall on November 7, 2011

This talk is so right, but could it be so wrong at the same time?

…click through to see the video…

Just watch this, that’s all I have to say. Jason is so right about this topic. Here’s a few quotes to convince you.

“I’m going to talk about work, and why people can’t seem to get things done at work…”
“If you ask people the question, “where do you go when you really need to get something done?” you typically get three different types of answers; one is a kind of a place, a location or a room, another is a moving object, a third is a time…”
“The Train” < – That one caught my fancy, if you've ever talked to be about transit you know that one caught me… 🙂
"What you almost never hear people say is "the office""
"Managers and bosses will tell you the distractions at work are things like Facebook, Youtube…" "…and they'll go so far as to ban it…" "…what is this China?!"
"The real problem in the modern office is the M & Ms" < – Oh hell yeah, so very true.
"Manager's jobs are really to interrupt people…" "…they don't really do work so they have to interrupt you."
"You would never see a spontaneous meeting of employees, no, managers do that…"

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged bdd, communication, ideas, M&Ms, office, pair programming, remote work, tdd, video

Resumes Are Worthless

Resumes Are Worthless

By Adron Hall on August 19, 2011

Ok, so a question came up recently about hiring people for software development roles. In answering that, the group discussing this started talking about resumes. Resumes, which I’m told mine looks good and reads well, hold a certain value to someone entering the field of software development. There are also major problems with having a […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged employment, hiring, ideas, Joel Spolsky, rants, resume

Just Some Thoughts, That Derek Sivers Has Too!

Just Some Thoughts, That Derek Sivers Has Too!

By Adron Hall on July 10, 2011

I miss the mob too… Don’t punish everyone… (Cross-posted @ Composite Code)

Posted in Misc | Tagged ideas

Holy Sh@#! Did You See What That Program Does!!!!!!

Holy Sh@#! Did You See What That Program Does!!!!!!

By Adron Hall on June 5, 2011

Have you ever worked for a startup? A successful startup? Have you ever seen the excitement in a startup meeting, hackathon, or other event were an idea starts to come to fruition! When the users of the startup’s application finally see it and start getting excited? Have you seen when people get so excited because […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged disruptive change, ideas, movers, startup

ASP.NET MVC 3 w/ Razor Infrastructure Template

ASP.NET MVC 3 w/ Razor Infrastructure Template

By Adron Hall on March 1, 2011

I decided, after poking around with Visual Studio 2010 Templates tonight, to publish a baseline infrastructure using ASP.NET MVC 3 w/ Razor, Entity Framework, and other elements using the .NET stack.  So far I’ve only got some skeleton code put together for the infrastructure project and posted it to my github repo.  I’d be open […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged architecture, github, ideas, project templates, software projects, visual studio templates

Innovation Mullet: Simple in the Front, Complex in the Back

Innovation Mullet: Simple in the Front, Complex in the Back

By Hutch Carpenter on November 15, 2010

On a LinkedIn discussion, someone asked: “Structured or un-structured innovation. Which works better?” There are a number of ways that could be answered. I look at it this way: What’s the simplest structure you can live with? I’m focusing on the application of simplicity as much possible in the innovation process. But I’m also a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged blog, ideas, innovation, innovation management, linkedin, process

Three Reasons Ideas Are Killer Social Objects for Enterprise 2.0

Three Reasons Ideas Are Killer Social Objects for Enterprise 2.0

By Hutch Carpenter on July 15, 2010

Social objects. Familiar with that term? If you’re steeped in social media and Enterprise 2.0, you probably are. If not, here’s a good description by Sarah Perez on ReadWriteWeb: Social objects are objects that connect people with shared interests. Social objects are the core of any social software. They define the experience, the basis for […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged Analytics, collaboration, e20, enterprise 2.0, ideas, social objects, workflow | 3 Responses

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