I should come up with an entertaining title for these blog entries about the Seattle Tech Scene. But that’s for another time, right now I’m going to focus on the events of this last week. Agile Beer Seattle AWS User Group (www.sawsug.com) Hadoop Seattle …read more… Continue reading →

I’ve been looking into getting a blog, specifically Wordpress, into the cloud. Of course the first two I take a look at are Windows Azure and AWS. This is what I’ve found so far. Windows Azure… Amazon Web Services… Continue reading →

ALT.NET Seattle Meet This weekend I attended the ALT.NET meet up. For more information on future meet ups check out these resources: http://www.altnetseattle.org/ http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=111345965570 http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?pli=1 We covered some great topics around not using IoC (Justin, where were ya!?), REST and what it really is, and lots of things around WCF. We all adjourned briefly for... Continue reading →

I’ve seen it on more than one project in my career and it always seems to happen. Agile rarely gets credit in this scenario. People rarely learn what was and was not effective on the project in this scenario. What I’d like to know though, especially from those that have successfully dealt with the “Must... Continue reading →

I’ve decided to go for it. I’m going to write a book and today is the day that marks the beginning of this journey. I’ve read up and asked for advice from writers that have undertaken the technical book effort before. John Papa, provided some great information in the past, and even wrote a new... Continue reading →