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... Continue reading →

Before diving into architecture, coding, descriptions and other things related to distributed computing over the coming months. It helps to become familiar with a language like Erlang. I’m going to dive immediately into getting Erlang up and running before any theory, description or otherwise, so following the most direct installation… Installing Erlang This is easy... Continue reading →

First off, I’m going to start off with some definitions to clarify things for this conversation. Cloud Computing, in general, has been perverted to mean almost anything available for sale today in technology. It’s rhetorically stupid. But we all still use the term to some degree. Going back to cloud computing at the core, we’re... Continue reading →

I posted a blog entry about my efforts last week, which included a rather frustrating experience with a freshly loaded OS-X Mountain Lion install. I had installed XCode and eventually got the Command Line Tools installed, which I outlined in the entry. Things seemed to be working ok, and for the most part in doing... Continue reading →

I mentioned earlier this week on Twitter that there was a deluge of software releases, additions and other goodies that would be released in the coming days. Earlier this week Jeremiah @peschkaj & OJ @TheColonial released the CorrugatedIron .NET Client for Riak. Big news for my .NET cohorts out there! It makes life uber easy... Continue reading →