I was going to write this up. I stumbled upon this video of John Seddon presenting. But seriously, WATCH the video, especially if you work in an enterprise. If you’re in management or in executive leadership you desperately need to watch this and know it, understand it and listen to it. To benefit of yourself... Continue reading →

Ok, so I think almost everybody has either slammed Marissa Mayer about the new Yahoo non-remote worker policy or said that it’s the medicine they have to swallow. Very few are actually pointing out however, that Yahoo was probably just really bad at managing their remote employees. In the end, I don’t care, that just... Continue reading →

Today, albeit by obliviousness to the holiday, had scheduled “Riak Office Hours” at NedSpace today. Even with the holiday, we had a great turn out. Generally Office Hours & Open Hack type of meets are small, often 2-5 people. Today we had a whopping 10 people turn out! Open Ended Topics Each meet we have... Continue reading →

The first few parts of this series include: Up and Running With Erlang Installing QuickCheck for Great Testing Ubuntu Erlang Dev & EUnit This continues the series, with the intent of getting to “Distributed Coding” with this all ramping up around Erlang and distributed programing in general. In this entry we’ll jump into some of... Continue reading →

This coming Wednesday I’m aiming for a Riak Beer Hack. Yup, it’s right after the Riak Nerd Lunch in Seattle. Thanks Amtrak Cascades for the ability to get from Seattle to Portland with wifi and not missing a beat! Train travel for the win! At Bailey’s my intent is to bring a deployed Riak Environment... Continue reading →