Alright, just for fun I’m kicking off a new blog series. I’m going to publish a new “Deploy a Framework Friday” each week for about the next, well, bunch of weeks. There are a TON of frameworks that are available on PaaS Technologies. This first entry I’m going to implement a simple Sinatra app with... Continue reading →

With OSCON just a week away I finally sat down with the trusty ole’ iPad and figured out what my schedule is going to be. It appears this year the OSCON team put together a perfect slice for me. For the sessions, I’ve narrowed them down to these: 9:00am Tuesday, 07/17/2012 Build your Own Platform-as-a-Service... Continue reading →

A friend and now coworker of mine, Richard Seroter (@rseroter & Blog) decided to do a comparo. I took the infrastructure based deployment, ala IaaS and he took the platform based deployment, ala PaaS. What we’ve done is taken a somewhat standard ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework, a SQL Server Database, a UX & UI... Continue reading →

Over yonder I was reading Luc’s blog entries on the AppFog Blog. While catching up I caught this video about my friend Eric Redmond’s book 7 Databases in 7 Weeks. After you’re watching the video, if you’re interested in databases definitely pick up the book. I’d recommend it even if I wasn’t friends with Eric.... Continue reading →

Installing the Latest Ruby, A Gotcha Generally, you’d just install rvm (Ruby Version Manager) and execute this command. rvm install 1.9.3 But alas, as happens sometimes, I ran into an issue related to the C compiler being found. Checking the log file for errors I found the message and went searching, finding … Continue reading →