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 →

Here I am on day #3 of my Coder’s Vacation and RICON is happening today. This is a new conference put together by the fine folks at Basho, maker of Riak (which note, is a link to the project on Github because Basho is awesome like that, they roll all open source like). However, it’s... Continue reading →

This next week I’m off to San Francisco for a coder’s vacation. I don’t exactly know what a coder’s vacation is but that’s what I’m aiming to define! I’ll put together a description of my idea of a coder’s vacation below. There are going to be several components about this vacation that really make it... Continue reading →