
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 […]

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 […]

PDX & SEA Code Camp, OS Bridge, OSCON, Iron Foundry, Robotech and Action!
May has been insane. I’ve spent a total of about 3 days of the entire month where I live in Portland, OR. It’s kind of an odd feeling to try not to travel since I love it so much. But I’m going to try and take it easy this month and next. Especially since some […]

Coder Society Seattle, Inaugural Report!
Coder Society Seattle got off to a start this weekend on this beautiful sunny Saturday! We all mozied into the Blue Box offices in downtown Seattle a mere block away from Pike Place Market. After a relaxed gathering we circled up to break out the kanban with the story ideas around our problem domain. We […]

Coder Society Seattle, Meeting this Saturday
Here it comes. Coder Society Seattle, Inaugural Kick Off! I hope you can make it. Here’s the plan so far. We’re all meeting at Blue Box in beautiful downtown Seattle at 10am. We’ll setup a board (ala kanban style) and immediately jump into breaking our domain out (re: See the Coder Society Google Group for […]

Wrapped Up @ The Fort of Awesome, on to the Iron Foundry, and new Tiers…
New update and bits coming up in the near term. I wrapped up my work with AppFog’s Fort of Awesome and am now putting together blog articles & technical material for New Relic these days. They’re an extremely great company with an absolutely stellar team. However you may be asking, “Adron, YOU WRITE CODE ALL […]

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 […]

Geoloqi, CivicApps, and TriMet API/SDKs
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 […]

Circle Pull Explosion!
The Inception of Circle Pulling from Bobby Johnson on Vimeo. Also check out Bobby’s Cover here and here of the Harmony Hill Hackathon! It was a blast. 🙂 (Cross-posted @ Composite Code)