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 […]
Introducing Junction
I’ve officially kicked off a new project from my notebook of projects based around building a Riak admin, data manipulation, reporting and news tool for Windows 8. If you want to jump right to the project, here’s the Github Pages Site, the Github Junction Repo and eventually I’ll have it listed in the Windows 8 […]
Thor Project Opens Up, Building the Cloud Foundry Ecosystem with the Community
The Iron Foundry Team are big advocates of open source software. We write code across all sorts of languages, just like many of the development shops out there do. Sometimes we’re heavy on the .NET, other times we’re all up in some Java, Ruby on Rails, spooling up a Node.js Application or something else. So …
Adam & Krishan Got Me Motivated Today… to toss the trash conversations
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 …
AppFog, Fort of Awesome & Node PDX Updated!
Time for the secret to be out of the bag. I’m currently working on contract with the awesome company of AppFog in the Fort of Awesome. Let me tell you, it is indeed awesome too! You might ask why I am working with them? How do I align with them? What is it they do? […]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Apprenda And Redhat Update Their Platforms
As we march towards a future dominated by PaaS, we are seeing companies ramping up their offerings. Today Apprenda (previous CloudAve coverage), the .NET PaaS provider, and Redhat (previous CloudAve Coverage), with their Openshift PaaS (previous CloudAve coverage) offering, made announcements about updates to their respective platforms. Apprenda announced the release of Apprenda 3.0, newer […]
Git Rid of Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDKs with .NET + Git + AppHarbor Deployment Revolution
I’ve been wanting to do a quick write up on the state of cloud apps from my perspective. What’s my perspective? Well I’m keeping up with the SDKs from the big players; AWS and Windows Azure. I’m also working on several cloud applications and providing consulting for some people and companies when approached related to […]
Rackspace Cloud Makes It Easy For .Net Developers
After releasing Windows Cloud Servers last month, Rackspace is now focussing on getting .NET developers use their cloud. When they released their Windows cloud servers, I was skeptical of developers moving to their servers instead of using Azure platform. In my opinion, their Windows based offerings may fill the gap in catering to their existing […]
OSCON Week: Microsoft And Interoperability
Using Microsoft and Interoperability in the same sentence makes me chuckle every time. Well, partly it could be due to my open source bias and I am not denying that. Off late, Microsoft has been making half-hearted attempts to embrace open source. I use the term “half-hearted” here because they do show some serious willingness […]
Microsoft and their huge problem in the clouds – A Response To Krishnan's Take
Alex Espinoza is a software developer in California with expertise on C/C++, C#, Java, Asp.Net, Php & Javascript. He is also knowledgeable of Linux, which used to be his passion of college years. He gave a strong response to my post titled Microsoft’s Huge Cloud Problem in his blog. Since it is our policy in […]
Wolf Frameworks – Another Contender for the PaaS Crown
The other day I was given a briefing by Sunny Ghosh from Wolf Frameworks. Founded in 2006, WOLF is a 100% browser (Ajax, XML and .NET) based standards compliant, PaaS that is targeting users who need to create mashable and interoperable SaaS Business Applications. Wolf is targeting the SMB market that is resource poor and […]
Appistry Adds Further Momentum to Enterprise Cloud Computing Shift
Few weeks back, I wrote about Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (EAF) which takes a collection of commodity servers and offers them as a single powerful virtualized resource. It helps enterprises achieve Google like reliable environment without the scale of Google. In the past couple of weeks, we have seen announcements regarding Amazon’s support for Windows […]
