We’ll be boarding Amtrak Cascades #508 to Seattle departing Portland at 6:15pm from Union Station. If you’re interested in doing a bulk ticket purchase let me know ASAP and I’ll work with you to organize that. Otherwise if you just want to pick up a ticket and meet us on the train let us know... Continue reading →

NOTE: All parts of this series and my other series can be found on my series links page. I sat down a few days ago on this trip to get a simple project setup, instead something else happened. It is my fault, entirely my fault. I could have stayed focused on a single library but... Continue reading →

Web development isn’t always easy. Really, there isn’t a form of application development that is easy, there’s a lot of steps, tools, and other traps to coding. One of the best unifying ways to insure that all this complexity doesn’t kick your ass, is to implement continuous integration & delivery practices. I’m going to cover... Continue reading →

All of these images can be viewed here: http://adronhall.smugmug.com/Software/Meetups-N-Conferences/RICON-2012 The Basho team including Tom Santero @tsantero, Shanley Kane @shanley, and others rocked putting things together and getting everything to us attendees and making sure we headed off like herded cats in appropriate paths to the sessions. Great job! You guys rocked it! All of this... Continue reading →

One of the things I’ve started working on is a #PhatData (re: my renamed version of big data) sample. So far what I’ve created is a JavaScript Application that works something like this. (The actual build status is shown to the right here in the “build status” image) Step #1: Continuous Integration The first thing... Continue reading →