This is the beginning of another series I’m going to be doing via the blog here. Just a quick week ending summary of the things I’ve taken note of via the media, cool hackathons, startups or other things of that nature. With that simple mission, here’s entry #1. Meteor Lands $11.2 Million Gigaom published an... Continue reading →

Time for the node.js “Deploy a Framework Friday”. First get node.js and express.js installed (i.e. npm install express) and then create your node.js application. adron$ express nodejs create : nodejs create : nodejs/package.json create : nodejs/app.js create : nodejs/public create : nodejs/public/javascripts create : nodejs/public/images create : nodejs/public/stylesheets create : nodejs/public/stylesheets/style.css create : … Continue reading →

Tuesday night, as usual ended with great technical conversation at Bailey’s Taproom. Bailey’s is basically the epicenter of the Portland tech scene. Almost every programmer, devops, or technical person either goes about once a month or has this establishment as a regular watering hole! It’s great, the atmosphere is chill, the beer is SUPERB, the... Continue reading →

First let’s build a standard ASP.NET MVC Application (yes, you can do the same without the MVC Project, but I STRONGLY recommend never creating a standard ASP.NET application again, EVER). This quick run through assumes you’ve already setup a Cloud Foundry enabled PaaS w/ your already installed Iron Foundry components for .NET development. Get an... Continue reading →

Today kicked off with a monster Reggie Biscuit from Pine State Biscuits. If you live in Portland or are visiting just for the conference and like soul food of the tastiest nature, check it out. My first day ended up not as planned. Instead of attending sessions I ended up meeting a number of people... Continue reading →