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 →

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 →