Ok, I’ll admit a secret. I haven’t read a single flippin’ SLA ever for cloud computing, hosting, managed hosting or other services. The main reason, is because it doesn’t matter unless you plan on prospectively suing or whining about your own bad architecture at some point. Sometimes, rarely, service is soooooo bad you have to... Continue reading →

Today was the kick off of OS Bridge 2012. I jumped aboard my trusty steed (bicycle) for the mighty 6 block ride to the conference. Yeah, I could have just walked, but I just felt like getting their the fastest way possible. After arriving I was immediately faced with two great greetings. The first one... Continue reading →

I just got signed up for Cloud Connect Chicago and started checking out some of the talks. One talk jumped out, being that it is about PaaS Technology. After reading it though I immediately felt the need to straighten out some things that looked misleading. Maybe the presenter (JP Morgenthal) will lay these things out... Continue reading →

First off, here’s a tour of my physical space where I do the bulk of my coding when I’m not travelling. The second bit, a good many months ago I published my developer tools list, which is still available in my blog entry “My Current Windows Developer Machine“. That entry however is very outdated. I’ve... Continue reading →

Wow… that was great. I had three presentations. Well, honestly it was more like two presentations and a brainstorming session with about 3 dozen really smart people! First there was the “Node.js Rulz! JavaScript takes over the full stack“. This session went pretty well, and I hope I got a lot of developers riled up... Continue reading →