The main conference day of the ALT.NET Conference was pretty awesome. With sessions going on diving deep into technical topics and other things, like where the women are in technology. In addition to the great sessions multiple open source software projects where in progress at the same time. Being able to pair up or just... Continue reading →

Day #2 kicked off a bit late for me. I arrived around 9:30am which was a bummer, but I at least got a bit of breakfast. The first session I went to was the reactive extensions session. Again though, I was late, so I ended up lost from the get go. That was unfortunate. In... Continue reading →

Today kicked off with an early morning and a great workshop with Glenn Block (@gblock). The team he is working with has some great things coming for HTTP + REST + WCF that will really alleviate a lot of problems with WCF. In addition to that I’d bet that it will give Microsoft a chance... Continue reading →

Ok. First a few facts. AWS has had a data center problem that has been ongoing for a couple of days. AWS has NOT been forthcoming with much useful information. AWS still has many data centers and cloud regions/etc up and live, able to keep their customers up and live. Many people have NOT built... Continue reading →

A few steps when setting up Gemsets with RVM. With a few other commands that can often be helpful. Just a quick Friday night entry… cheers! Functionality by line: Get a list of the current available gemsets. Creates a gemset called theNameOfTheSiteToCreate. Lists the name of the current gemset. Delete the gemset named theNameOfTheSiteToCreate. This... Continue reading →