Only in Seattle (or Portland, San Francisco, or Vancouver) can I board a bus and actually sit down and see another person writing code. Not just any code either, but serious stuff. Utilizing js w/ memoization, closures, etc. Not just somebody smashing code into a computer, but someone writing something that would prospectively be performant... Continue reading →

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... Continue reading →

This talk is so right, but could it be so wrong at the same time? …click through to see the video… Just watch this, that’s all I have to say. Jason is so right about this topic. Here’s a few quotes to convince you. “I’m going to talk about work, and why people can’t seem... Continue reading →

How do you know that Ruby on Rails has already hit the big time? Not that it needs anymore proof that it is absolutely one of the MAJOR platforms available right now… Recruiters now regularly come to user groups & offer to “buy the beer” afterwards. The split of job searches on sites now easily... Continue reading →

The Environment Recently a conversation came up about high availability in a traditional Enterprise Environment. Let me paint the picture for this environment; “This environment has several hundred servers, and several hundred applications. These application range in simple client server applications to n-tier applications strung across multiple services and machines. Some are resilient, some are... Continue reading →