Raven DB, A Kick Starter using Tier 3 IaaS

I’m putting together a pretty sweet little application. It does some basic things that are slowly but surely expanding to cover some interesting distributed cloud computing business cases. But today I’m going to dive into my Raven DB experience. The idea is that Raven DB will act as the data repository for a set of... Continue reading →

PDX & SEA Code Camp, OS Bridge, OSCON, Iron Foundry, Robotech and Action! Stage II

I usually don’t post two blog entries in one day, but I had so much to rattle on about it seemed like a rule to break. DeployCon, Cloud Expo and Cloud Bootcamp I’ll be speaking at the Cloud Bootcamp at the Cloud Expo in New York City. So if you’re coming to the conference, swing... Continue reading →

#nodejs, why I’m basically porting EVERYTHING to it…

Here’s my list of why I’m moving everything to Node.js that I run (i.e. maybe even THIS wordpress blog eventually). Between the enhancements Google gave to JavaScript and the ease of use in writing with the language, it provides the least resistance of any framework and language stack out there. Node.js + Express.js or Bricks.js... Continue reading →