I had a great conversation the other night while at the Seattle Web Analytics Wednesday (#waw) with Carlos (@inflatemouse) and a dozen others. @inflatemouse brought up the idea that an analytics provider using the cloud, increases or at least possibly increases the risk of security breach to the data. This is, after all a valid... Continue reading →

I am new to Seattle from the “I live here” perspective. I have travelled here and visited more than a few times. The last week or so I have been wandering a bit and checking out various groups such as Web Analytics Wednesday and possibly will check out the Startup Drinks Group in Ballard this... Continue reading →

Just a few links for today. I am still hustling together some code for the Kata that I am working up related to real world testing – ala TDD. In the meantime, check out some cloud tidbits. Continue reading →

Recently Amazon jumped into the relational database cloud competition with Microsoft. Up until the 6th of this month, Microsoft had the only cloud with a real dedicated relational database offering in SQL Azure. Now Amazon has their Relational Database Service heating up the competition. In other news, Google finally joined the storage party with their... Continue reading →

Just a few of the key points brought up during the #altnet meeting on Saturday this weekend. There were a number of other topics, but these stuck in my mind as something I am more interested in. katas | How to transition the learning from katas into the more elaborate testing realm of fakes, mocks,... Continue reading →