
In-memory Orchestrate Local Development Database
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 […]

I’ve Got a JavaScript & Node.js Webinar, Webstorm Tutorial Videos, Work & Flow With JavaScript Development and More…
Webinar: Node.js Development Workflow in WebStorm This coming week I’m doing an intro to work and flow with Node.js JavaScript Programming that I’m working with JetBrains on. In the webinar I’ll be covering the following key topics in the webinar: Open an existing project & getting WebStorm configured for running, testing and related working tasks. […]

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 […]

My Year of Coding, Messaging, Learning, Leading, Reconoitering, and Hacking in Photos
Hope you have a little patience, this blog entry is going to be pretty long. There was a multitude of conferences, more than a hundred pair coding sessions, more cities, hotels and other things as I criss crossed the country helping to knock out projects, code, fire off some open source projects and generally get […]

SITREP – Stoking Iron Foundry, Thor Hammering & Joining… ?
What have I been up to? Here’s a quick recap. You may want to get involved with some of these projects! Iron Foundry & Tier 3 Web Fabric Back when I left the kick ass team at Russell Investments in Seattle I stepped directly to bat as team lead at Tier 3. My job, get a […]

Thor Brings the Hamma! Cloud Foundry OS-X, Windows 7 and Windows 8 Interfaces FTW!
One of the things that I do in my work is lead the efforts around creating and leading open source projects. As regular readers may know, I’m big into open source efforts, especially around PaaS. My preferred PaaS offering these days for internal, external and public cloud PaaS is Cloud Foundry (with Iron Foundry for …

OS Bridge 2012 :: Day #1 :: How I Got Here…
Today was the kick off of OS Bridge 2012. I jumped aboard my trusty steed (bicycle) for the mighty 6 block rider to the conference. Yeah, I could have just walked, but I just felt like getting their the fastest way possible. After arriving I was immediately faced with two great greetings. The first one …

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 […]

#nodejs, why I’m basically porting EVERYTHING to it…
Here’s my list of why I’m moving everything to Node.js that I run. Between the enhancements Google gave to JavaScript and the ease of use in writing with the language, it provides the least resistance of any framework and language stack out there. Node.js + Express.js or Bricks.js + Jade + Every DB Choice on […]

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 […]

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)

Improving the Time Suck of Social Media
Social media, albeit being a great boon in many regards, has also become a massive time suck for almost everyone involved! Sure, news is up to date, down the minute, real-time almost with every single little bit of craziness right there to read about right now! The t0-read, to-do, to-make, to-code lists all keep getting […]