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 […]
PIE’s Third Class, You Better Keep an Eye on These Companies…
There are a number of new startups that have joined the third PIE Class. However there are a few that have stood out to me. The first startup has to do with the IoT. IoT stands for Internet of Things. I’m a MASSIVE fan of what is being done with IoT. Personally I think it […]
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 […]
Node PDX – Introducing Ward Cunningham, Nexxy, Jerry Seivert and Hannah Fousanon!
Here’s the first of a series of introductions for the upcoming Node PDX Conference here in bright and sunny Portland, Oregon! …and no, that isn’t sarcasm, it’s the summer time now so we’re allowed to have sun and warm weather! With that, the speakers for Node PDX! Ward Cunningham presenting… My Sensors Love Node.js Ward […]
Write the Docs, Railsconf Portland, RICON East, Node PDX, Vancouver Polyglot, Open Source Bridge and OSCON…
…if you are deciding what to attend this year, here’s the top of the list. Just a few key conferences that will kick ass in technical & academic content. The other great thing about these conferences is that they either have a “code of ethics” or are reknown for real conference diversity vs. the “hey […]
Node PDX => Possible Speakers?
I started writing this blog entry about a month ago. I had not ran it by my friend Troy, and I wanted to make sure I didn’t jump the gun. However, I’d sort of let this entry get a little dusty, and Troy @thoward37 on twitter inadvertently brought up the topic and I’ve sprung this […]
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 […]
OS (Open Source) Bridge Week in Review
This is the first time I’ve attended OS Bridge. I’d known about it before while living in PDX. I had seen numerous people sitting in Bailey’s, Backspace, and other places around town after the days of the conference in past years. This year I actually got to experience it myself and am stoked with the […]
OS Bridge Day #1: Hacking for Freedom
Keynote: Hacking for Freedom
(Description of Hacking for Freedom)
Day #1 has kicked off with a bang. A keynote that really pulled at the heart strings for the love of freedom and liberty! The notion of technology being involved directly to those pushing for their freedom in other parts of the world is huge. Below I’ve snagged… read more…
OS Bridge, What is it?
I’m headed down to Portland, Oregon today for OS Bridge. OS Bridge is a conference for the open source community, by the community. The conference is one of the premier events to learn how open source really works, learn from others, and meet people that are also learning about and involved in the open source […]
