Wintersmith Documentation
I set out a few days ago to put together a documentation site. I had a few criteria for this site: A static site that I could push to Github to use with their github pages feature. The static site is generated from markdown. It just works. It’s easy to get it into a workflow […]
Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage
Back in the days gone by, if you were part of the landed gentry, lording over your landholdings and the common folk who lived on said land, you’d look to becoming a patron of the arts as a way to ensure your name would live on after your death. While perhaps not a particularly sound […]
Bitnami, Hupstream & Basho Release VMs with Microsoft Open Interoperability VM Depot for Azure
Today Microsoft released, with partnerships with a number of companies including Basho, Hupstream and Bitnami, the VM Depot. I’ve always followed Bitnami, so it’s really cool to see their VM releases for Jenkins (CI Build Server), WordPress, Ruby 1.9.3 stack, Node.js and about everything you can imagine out their along side our Basho Riak CentOS image. […]
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 […]
Basho – First Week Coding & Research Adventures…
The First Things This week, the first thing I did was give a solid read to Mark Phillip’s Blog “themarkphillips” (@pharkmillups). Here’s a break down of some entries I found really interesting and helpful in getting kick started here at Basho (or just really a good read in and of itself): Using Open Source to […]
Of little clouds and big clouds, local clouds and global clouds
Image: NASA Amazon’s globe-encircling cloud infrastructure is compelling to many. From Virginia to California, from Ireland to Singapore, and from Japan to Brazil; wherever you find yourself there’s a local instance of the same familiar set of services. And, in all likelihood, Australia will soon be added to the list. For those primarily interested in just serving […]
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? […]
OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS
The other day Krish bemoaned the fact that PaaS is rapidly becoming homogenized as all players rapidly follow their competitors in rolling out features and languages. As Krish said; …[they] talk about differentiation in terms of user experience. But, ladies and gentlemen, I hear the same from every other PaaS
JRuby for EngineYard Goes GA
In another step towards PaaS provider Engine Yard becoming a fully featured multi language platform player, they are today announcing that JRuby on Engine Yard is entering general availability. Timed to coincide with next week’s JavaOne conferent, JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby language that Engine Yard initially supported. Using JRuby, Java developers […]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Engine Yard Opens Up Platform Services
Engine Yard (previous CloudAve coverage), one of the earliest PaaS players, today announced the launch of Engine Yard Platform Services. This is a partner program with more than 40 cloud vendors offering their services for Engine Yard platform. This is more like an appstore for Engine Yard Platform customers so that they can easily use […]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: AppFog Adds Ruby And Node.js Support
Appfog (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS player previously known as PHPFog, today announced support for Ruby and Node.js on their platform. This is nothing new or surprising and I can even say that this completes the process of removing any differentiation in terms of language support among the PaaS providers (yeah, I know that there […]
The Non-Microsoft Realm, Collecting Rubies Part I
Years ago I worked with Linux (Redhat 3.2, SUSE, Gentoo, and Slackware among others) and also played around with PHP. I’ve never really gotten too keen in PHP, mainly because it just seemed sort of a mess. But when I needed something to get the job done and didn’t want to wait on the bureaucratic […]
Engine Yard Now Offers Free Option For New Users
Engine Yard (previous CloudAve coverage) finally pushed themselves into the freemium game today with the announcement that new users can try their AppCloud for 500 hours without even giving their credit card. This will let more developers to try out their PaaS offering before committing to them financially. After Heroku (see previous CloudAve coverage) got […]
Salesforce.com’s $212 Million Acquisition of Heorku – A Sparkling Gem In Radiant Future Of Cloud And PaaS
I met James Lindenbaum, a founder of Heroku, in early 2009, at the Under The Radar conference in Mountain View. We had a long conversation on cloud as a great platform for Ruby, why Ruby on Rails is a better framework than PHP, and viability of PaaS as…
